I run a Helix 9 on the bow of my boat with the transducer on the trolling motor. I use the speed when spider rigging. Most of the time I'm on a split screen of sonar/gps. That's just my way.
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I run a Helix 9 on the bow of my boat with the transducer on the trolling motor. I use the speed when spider rigging. Most of the time I'm on a split screen of sonar/gps. That's just my way.
I would definitely reccomend buying a side imaging graph for the console of your boat. I wouldn't get any smaller than a 7 inch screen for that. I run a Helix 9 SI/DI on the console. I would also reccomend upgrading to the HD transducer if its in your budget. For the trolling motor all you need is a cheap color graph of your choice. Side imaging on the front is to difficult to cover enough ground in a reasonable amount of time to find structure in my opinion. Once I locate the structure from the console I will drop a buoy over the structure and spider rig with my depth set just above the highest point on the brush pile. Usually the most active crappie are at the top of the pile and that will keep you from hanging up so much. Good Luck!
DI is a must have SI nice to have if it is in the budget. I would call GPS a must have if you also do a lot of trolling with straight rigging you can tell your speed most of the time by the line and normally slower is better. I personally run a Humminbird 899 SI on the console and a Garmin 53dv Echomap on the trolling motor. I'm not particularly brand loyal as they all work. Good luck!
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What is the slowest speed will yall's ff read? I stop a lot when spider rigging, and I'd say I've caught my bigger crappie sitting still. I go very slow and stop, so I don't get a reading on the speed.
If you are on a budget you can get Narvonics on your phone to show GPS, Speed and Lake/River Maps I think it was $10.00 to download and I run a cheap $150.00 Lowrance Unit Navionics | The Leader in Electronics Charts | Navionics
I use the one in my terry a most of the time. Shows on the hand held remote down to .1 my hummingbird picks up speed at around .3 . A lot of spider rigging speed is dictated by where and how you are fishing. I agree, if your fishing over structure or fish you have marked with a buoy slow is the was to go. But on the big 4 the last couple of years I'm catching way more fish from .4 to .7 sometimes even up to 1.0. Think it all depends on where and what you are fishing around.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappie cowboy
My Garmin picks up reliably around .2-.3. That's close enough for me.
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Thanks for all the help. When I hear it from the guys that use it , it makes sense. The folks at the stores tell it a little different. I'm gonna pull the trigger this week and start fishing . Sounds like they are starting up. I caught a few in all this weather in a farm pond and got the bug. Thank you everyone.
I just started spider rigging last year. I learned real quick slower seemed to be better on the lakes I've been fishing. And don't get frustrated with getting hung up. It's gonna happen a lot lol
I've got a HB 597 DI + GPS I'd sell you if interested. I run it up front with transducer mounted to trolling motor.