Quote Originally Posted by Locator79 View Post
The transducer and control box sells for 1500. You can find it cheaper if you're patient and shop around. Then you have to have a compatible Garmin unit. It can be used in any situation, but it also can aggravate the fire out of you. There are more fish than you can imagine near your boat all the time. Doesn't mean they'll bite though. A lot of them spook, or just check your jig out and swim off.

Shoot me a message when the shellcracker start turning on, plan on coming down your way a few days and pestering them.

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If the fish swim up to your bait and don't bite it means that your bait probably smells of gasoline and they refuse to bite. That or they just are not hungery. Crappie have good eye sight too. They can look at a fake bait and tell it's not real and swim away. But mostly they smell the bait and if it smells funny they won't bite. All the pro fishermen make sure that they wash their hands after gasing up the boat and truck and then add some type of scent to their baits.