Quote Originally Posted by GreenLine View Post
How do you tell the difference between a crappie and say a buffalo ? Or any similar shaped fish ?


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You go primarily by size first, then shape. The more you use it, the easier it becomes to determine what you are seeing. Fish act differently. Drum commonly move up and down standing timber, crappie almost always remain in a horizontal plane unless actively chasing bait. Catfish returns appear to be made of "disks" head to tail. Crappie and scaled fish returns often appear to be made of small circles. I believe it because of how the sonar reflects off the smooth skin and scaled skin. The more I use it, the more I am able discern what I am looking at. One of the neatest things is being able to discover what fish do. How they react to boats, movement in the boat by people, what they do when you snag a brush pile and shake it, how they react to schools of shad. Had a blue cat bust one of my crappies I was trying to catch the other day. I have watched a round school of shad get busted up by a crappie that peeled off a piece of standing timber, it blew up like a firework starburst in all directions. The crappie came back to the tree and I put a jig on his nose and caught him. Its kinda like having Nat Geo on a fish finder LOL