School of fish under bait. The arrow is the school of fish and circle is bait that has balled up in protect mode.
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School of fish under bait. The arrow is the school of fish and circle is bait that has balled up in protect mode.
but this is new to me and I'll be darned if I can figger it all out YET. LOL That was over near the deep hole on the lake side of Pelahatchie causeway, bout 100 yeards North of the Bridge
I would mark and fish this spot.
pulling cranks at. I was thinking that was fish but wasn't sure. thanks bud
My interpretations:
I'm not sure why you have one speed posted at the top and another lower at the bottom, but if you're actual speed was 5.3, that's way too fast for a clear pic. The circle on the DI left side, I don't think that's bait fish. It's too loose, but the individual dots are too uniform. If this was summer, I'd say bubbles from decomposition, but regardless, I don't think it's bait because it's spread loosely from 35 up to 10' deep. Big spread.
On the right, I think the lines are fish. Hard to say due to speed, but they are a hard return, but may be elongated due to speed. Overall, I'd move on to more productive water.
Wannabe...
More of my wisdom:
Again with the speed thingy. What's up with that. You need to be no more than 3.5 tops.
Nothing really to interpret here, except the nice drop with what looks to be structure on the first drop. maybe even some fish on it.
Did notice the square on the right. Looks to me to be an old foundation and home place since the SI is set to 150, I interpret that box to have about 20' sides. If it was a house foundation, they must have been po folk. Or maybe they was rich folk and that was the dog house.
Wannabe...
My best for last:
Congratulations, you've found a tree top.
Again the speed thing. Can you say trolling plate? I knew you could.
Lot of turbulence similar to the first pic, but the grouping of the returns around the tree make me think it's bait. Note the irregular size of the return....this is not because you got big and little shad, but the bait overlaps each other causing the returns to look bigger than some around it.
On the right, again, wide spread returns like the first pic, but mixed in all over the place is harder returns and what appears to me to possiby be fish spread all around. I marked some with the lines. There's a bunch more there though. Of all your pics, this one looks the most promissing for fishing. Odd too, cause you're in what appears to be a a gentle slope going from maybe 0' on the left out to maybe 20 on the left. You'd think this time of year, it'd look better deeper or at least close to real deep water. Then again, we're talking almost 50 degree water, so I'd be awful tempted to give this spot a try for a while at least.
Wannabe...
'Da Swammie has spoken.
I would bring the range in to no more than 75 feet on both sides. Just my opinion but it is very hard to interpret what you are looking at with the range at 150. Keep speed between 3.5 and 5 mph.
I usually search on 75 feet then if I see something interesting make a second pass at 30 feet range.
If you will do this you will find that some (not all) of the crappie in the school will be kind of football shaped and not really bright, kind of gray. Aggressive fish will be in schools and you will see 8 or better in a school. If they are not bunched up they are going to be tough to catch.
I did notice that on mine also, so the most I ranged out to the other day was 30. Seemed like you get the best results when you set your range about 10-20 feet more than your depth
Hey that is likely a tree. Took a closer look and here is why I changed my mind.
See the green circle where the sonar was completely blocked? Fish don't do that. Also green arrows show it from both sides in the water column and that is suspect also. But all that said there is no way I would not drop a jig down by this tree with the arches around it and fish in the area.