Thread: A few livescope pics

He still use side image to locate schools and use live scope to fish in them.

Originally Posted by Inkdabber

Just throw a hand grenade into the school and net the floaters. If your aim is good, you should be able to get them all with a single toss.

Originally Posted by BigDawgg

So you guys are chasing fish and the other guys on YouTube video's are sitting still and catching fish. What is the purpose of chasing them if you wanting to be catching fish? Just trying to make since of what you are doing. I understand trying to find schools of stripers but I don't understand trying to sneak up on crappies. Why waste the time to do the chasing part?

As you metioned, I was seeing schools of stripers in the area and moving around trying to find them with the live scope. I've had a lot of luck this winter getting in an area where I marked a bunch of fish with the big motor and then coming back through with the live scope and casting a jigging spoon into the schools. They respond much better generally speaking than if I try to get dead over them and vertical jig like I used to do pre live scope. Usually when I hook one or the jig passes through the school of stripers, the whole school will follow it back and then I can drop straight down into them and go to work on them. I've only had Livescope for a couple of months but it has already changed the way I am striper fishing. Yesterday, I just happened into those crappie schools while looking for the stripers and used the same lure and technique to catch them that I do with the stripers.

For specifically targeting crappie, I don't like to troll at all. Spent way too many days pulling planer boards for stripers and much prefer to single pole jig or cast for crappie, perch or stripers. When the crappie are prespawn and have left the brush piles for the open water flats in the creeks and coves, I was saying I think I can spot them out in front of me with live scope and cast a heavier jig/grub at them much like I did yesterday with the jigging spoon. I can basically use my electronics to sight fish for open water fish much like I'm doing the stripers right now.

Originally Posted by CrappieKidd

3 Pound Crappie was demonstrating a different way to catch crappie in open water with single pole and stay on them. It is about catching crappie that gives you fun.
Also he guides for a living and he can demonstrate to his clients his knowledge.

Crappie being caught over brush or tight lining is fun too, and the pro's are fishing a different type of fishery than what we have. Larger fish population and bigger fish. But it sounds like trying to turn crappie fishing into bass fishing by chasing a single fish. It's a challenge either way!

I love single pole fishing them in brush. I doubt I would be casting to single fish. What I was seeing yesterday at Murray and have seen many times in the early spring in the flats of the creeks at Clarks Hill is very tightly grouped schools of 20 to 50 plus fish. I'm trying to find those and put a sore lip on them!

What do you think? Would LS be banned from tournament fishing (Crappie and Bass) if it's that good in locating fish?

I guess single poling like you say is going to catch on with LS when more people have it. My partner at work Bass fishes and I listen to him about how much it cost him chasing the bass all over the place. Lot bucks he drops for that single fishing he does. Striper fish ain't cheap either! Another question for any body! If you fixed a transducer on the side of the boat like some have for crappie fishing off a pontoon, would it help you in chasing a single fish if you saw it closer in passing?

I have no idea how good live scope will be for typical bass fishing. Being able to tell that the single fish you are looking at on a point is a bass and not a striper, carp or catfish would be important. So far I've used my live scope on brush for crappie and it's incredibly effective and also used it like I described above for locating striper schools in deeper water. I'm really looking forward to the herring spawn and the hybid spawning runs to see how it does for stripers and hybrids in much shallower water. There are times through blind casting and hitting point after point that I will find the hybrids stacked thick as cordwood and it will be a fish every cast. I'm hoping to be able to cover a bunch of water with my electronics and locate those schools more effectively.

Yesterday, there were loons thick in the back of a creek and I eased in and started casting and never got a single hit. This winter the fish just havent wanted to be shallow like they normally are. Rather than cranking up and leaving I decided to scan the area all around the loons with the live scope and just as I suspected I wasn't seeing a single fish around them. But as I turned to leave I spotted two fish about 40 yards from the current ball of loons. I cast my spoon and it was slammed by an 8 pound striper. I landed him and saw it had pulled more fish into my area. I immediately hooked another nice fish that was peeling drag before the hook pulled. From there, the fish hung around but they had seen my presentation and wouldn't eat. I tried a couple more things without success before they disbersed. Just because you can see them, doesn't mean you will catch them. You still have to fish. It just narrows down the water for me.