Thread: Electronics just makes it easier.

I knew the wind was going to blow hard today and I was not going fishing. I kept moaning about the wind and how I don’t like fishing in the wind. My wife knows I get a little sour acting when I don’t fish. As she left for work she says “Go fishing”....so I went. The wind was a steady 15 MPH with gusts sometimes 18-20 below dam at Nickajack. The white bass were in there as thick as thieves....and so were crappie. I found several schools of white bass on the bottom and the crappie were hanging out with them in the upper part of the water column. I used a 1/8 ounce Fin Spin checking out the crappie.....wanted to keep it off the bottom because if you didn’t the white bass were all over it. The pink Fin Spin was dressed with a MidnightBlue Slab Curly. I targeted the sonar image with crappie in it 18 times today and caught 18 crappie. The rest of the time I was using a 1/4 ounce pink Fin Spin...dressed with a MidnightBlue Slab Curly....wanting to keep it down deep for the white bass. The rod was a Major Craft Truzer Ajing 6’ 5” hard model...one of only two UL rods I have that can handle a 1/4 ounce bait. The reel was a Daiwa Certate 2004CH spooled with 2# test SOS line. I caught over 150 white bass today...all in the 12-13 inch range.....very fat fish and a lot of fun on the UL rod. Those whites were “Diggin” hard today. Fished from 8:30 this morning and pulled off the fish at 3:00 p.m. I can’t emphasize enough how important a part electronics played a part in my success today....Helix 10 Mega si G2N. While I was not 100% sure those were crappie I assumed from the smaller signature.....and mostly they were up higher in the water column. Yes I have caught tons of fish without using sonar but it sure makes it a lot easier. Man oh man “Life is good”!


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Originally Posted by Wilk816

Do you run DI at the front or just at the console patroling for fish?

I have a stick steer boat so my console is also my fishing chair. When I first got this boat I had Rickies Da Ducer Apparatus. I loved it ...but...they way I get in and out of my small boat I was going to hurt myself on the apparatus or the trolling motor. So I sold the apparatus. So my transducer is mounted in the rear.

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