Thread: Fish finder question

if you have your transducer out in front of your boat say 12 ft., more than likely bye the time it appears on your screen it already under your boat. everything on your graph is history, and you will be moving at a good pace while cranking.

In my Lowrance manuals it always says to mount the bottom of the transducer as flat and parallel to the ground as possible. If the transducer is mounted at an angle, it can't read the sonar returns because they will reflect off at a different angle. (Unless it is a side imaging transducer.)

Hummingbird has the 360 radar-like tranducer that gives u a 360 deg field of view. That may help avoid snags, but I'd say losing crankbaits just comes with the territory.

Also, Lowrance has the Spotlight Scan transducer that allows you to see ahead of the boat.

You will lose crankbaits pulling or pushing. You will reduce the amount lost significantly by using braided line.

Originally Posted by crp4570

You will lose crankbaits pulling or pushing. You will reduce the amount lost significantly by using braided line.

agreed,i use 30lb braid

Do not get discouraged. The first time you see your crankbait lost in the mouth of a stud slab crappie surfacing like a trident submarine 80 feet behind your boat you will forget about all the other lost cranks. Go get em! Have fun! You will spend more money on coffee and sodas in a years time.

Someone recommended changing the rings that holds the hooks on to #2 or #3 fine I can't remember which one but after making the change I have only lost hooks. I haven't loss any fish due to the rings giving away.

If you can pull cranks and not lose any please let my self and mrdux know how ASAP!! Bet I have a thousand dollars worth somewhere on ky lakes floor.

Thanks for the feed back guys, I experimented a little aiming the transponder out in front of the boat, I worked 20 fow where I knew there was brush and dropped a couple lines with 3 oz weights but no cranks, as previously posted I didn't get a good return but did see the brush. I also adjusted the monitor speed to 3 mph which I think helped me see the brush in quicker time. At 1.8 mph I saw the brush about 10 feet before the weights hit it pushing about 14 feet down, if I would have been in 14 fow I think I would have seen the brush about the time I would have hit it with the cranks. I'm not expecting to not decorate some brush piles down there, I would just like to not overdo the decorations and make them to gaudy....

Good luck,
Ray