Some new screen shots with 997.. pretty neat!

well folks got out today for the first time to do a little catfishing on the river and got some neat screen shots. First off, the first shots are actually of my throw net floating to the bottom while trying to get shad.

Next is shots that were really neat. With there being no current in the river right now Im forced to drift fish. You can see to constant lines on the 2d side of the screen..... the upper line is my 4oz weight and just beneathe is my bait. You can see the red line (the fish) coming from the bottom in the first pic. Second pic is when I got the fish hooked and started to real him in as you can see by him coming up the water column. You can also see he has a buddy following him towards the top. Prolly wondering what the hell his buddy is doing. Anyways you can see his buddy is a sellout and left his but to die as you can see he dropped back to the river bottom as I got the small channel to the boat.

woops, here is the shots of the throw net!!! Also a picture of the little channel I caught when taking the screen shots!!! Yeah he's a little dude but It was neat to see how good that fish showed up on the graph in 40 some feet of water and all the way up to the boat!!!

Help me out CC. I just got a 998 and I'm in the very new learning phase, but I can't see your bait under the 4oz wht, and, can you use one of the "drawing" utilities to label the fish you caught and his buddy. Thanks if you get a chance to do this.

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Originally Posted by majflyboy

Help me out CC. I just got a 998 and I'm in the very new learning phase, but I can't see your bait under the 4oz wht, and, can you use one of the "drawing" utilities to label the fish you caught and his buddy. Thanks if you get a chance to do this.

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Well, here is the thing bud. I have no clue how to do that but I will try to help ya. In the second picture that I posted look at my water temp. It saids 60 degrees. look through the temp and you will see 2 light green lines going across the screen. the top one is my 4oz weight, and just beneath that there is another green line. That is the piece of shad. The red lines that came from the river bottom is the fish moving up to my bait. It was really neat because all the fish I caught today I knew when to be ready for the pole to go down. As soon as the fish came up and got to the bait the rod would go down or atleast I would get a bite.

Here is what you should try to do. I know this is a crappie fishing forum but if you have any larger fishing tackle like say a big weight like 40zs. Tie 2 of them on, one about 2 foot up the line and one at the end and drop it just below your transducer. This works when jigging for crappies also when they are suspended. The funnest time Ive ever had crappie fishing was last fall when I got on a school of crappie. i would drop my 16th oz jig down an stop it about 2-3 feet above the school of crappie and just slowly lift and drop the jig. You could actually watch individual crappie come up and whe the fish got to the jig you would feel the "thump". set the hook, and I caught about 40 of them like that while out that day. Hard to do this when the wind is blowing by the way. Best way to learn is with big weights. Its really neat. Be careful not to smack your transducer with a weight! Hope this helps.

Thanks for your response CC. I've got a lot to learn.