Staying with roaming summer crappies with Humminbird Side Imaging and Dual Beam sonar

[Jason Halfen #511]

In recent weeks, my boat has enjoyed a very consistent bite for slab summer crappie, with most fish running between 10-12" and fish in the 13-14" class on nearly every trip. As I have mentioned in other recent crappie articles, our primary presentation has been to cast 1/32 or 1/16 oz VMC Hot Skirt jigs tipped with the rear half of a Trigger X 3" walleye minnow. On most trips, we spot hop, picking off the active fish from a school before moving on to find another active group. However, on a recent trip, I decided to stay with a school once the active fish had been depleted. Where had they gone (if anywhere)? Could they still be taken once the volunteers had disappeared? Our results were guided by Humminbird Side Imaging and Dual Beam sonar, and in this article I describe how I used these technologies and good ol' fashioned "fishin smarts" to keep the fish coming to the boat:

Using Humminbird sonar to stay with roving late summer crappies

[frank lawhead]

Nice Article

[SLAB MASTER]

Jason,

Great article. Thanks for sharing.