Thread: Fish or junk in the water?

3 trips to HP lately and no Crappie! I used to catch them by the hundreds with very few keepers but fun????

I've been using my Garmin upfront while fishing for about 3 months now and I'm yet to see a good arch like I do on my humminbird. But it more than gets the job done for the price


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Originally Posted by RK1

I've been using my Garmin upfront while fishing for about 3 months now and I'm yet to see a good arch like I do on my humminbird. But it more than gets the job done for the price


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Amen brother. I don't care what they look like on the screen, as long as it helps me out fish in the boat.


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Originally Posted by trypman1

3 trips to HP lately and no Crappie! I used to catch them by the hundreds with very few keepers but fun????

That's what I heard. Just a bunch of throwback fish, but if you found them, you were gonna catch a bunch!


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I'd say picture one (the streaks) are fish either moving closer or farther from the transducer quickly. The closer to the ducer, the shallower they look in the cone. The farther from the ducer the lower they look in the cone. That's why larger stationary fish make an arch. When the cone first hits them they are in the edge of the cone. The closer you get to the fish the higher the mark gets. When you get to the top of the arch you're either directly over the fish or as close to them as you can get on that path. When the cone starts moving away from the fish, it completes the arch. The streaks are probably feeding fish chasing a meal. (The fish are moving faster than the cone). The squiggly lines in the bait on 2-3 are probably white bass or maybe cats feeding in the bait. I seen that image a lot on the big 4 and usually catch whites when I see it. Definitely lots of bait in 2-3-4

When slow trolling over stationary fish, the mark looks more like a straight line because the transducer makes multiple pings on the same fish very quickly. No quick change from the ducer as you move slowly over them.

Junk in the water has a completely different profile.... the junk will stratify closer to the surface and not look like fish .... some of the bubbles are Natural Gas escaping through cracks in the rock under the lake floor... I have seen the Diagonal lines run both up and down, making them feeding fish --- or escaping Never caught anything where this was happening

'Preeciate the help. Very helpful. I didn't realize it was going to be such a learning curve.


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Actually found some arches last weekend. Now on to the task of catching these marked fish!


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