Hello All,

I just moved back home after living in Ohio for the past few years. While in Ohio, I started crappie fishing with friends and fell in love. Now that I am back in KY, I am trying to crappie fish on my own and I am struggling. I have been fishing here for the past couple months with minimal success. I have fished Buckhorn, London Dock, and Cedar Creek. While I can catch 1 or 2 a trip, I know I am missing them. I am using a Garmin Echomap 7SV. Here are a few issues that hopefully you can help with.

I am struggling to identify fish on my electronics. I have watched ALOT of YouTube videos and its still a struggle. I was able to identify crappie in the pre spawn in Ohio and caught 15 off of a flat but I haven't seen anything like that since. Does anyone have a contrast picture of structure that shows the difference between a tree and a tree with fish? Also, I am not sure that I am looking in the right places. I think I see a little something on the finder and try to fish it before finding a school of fish. How long do you normally look for the fish before finding them?

At London Dock and Cedar Creek there is so much structure/brush piles, how do you identify which ones to target? There is so much cover I do not understand how you could see the fish in it. I went yesterday and fished everything from the bank to 25 FOW and only caught bass. I tried casting and vertical jigging to make sure I wouldn't missing them in the water column.

I only went to buckhorn once but found fish on a large flat that was 10-25 FOW. I was able to catch a couple but it seems like they were not "schooled". I could see from my Garmin that the fish were chasing shad all over the flat. How do you fish large flats like this?

Thanks in advance!