My 998 wants to know where the crappie are
Where are the crappie? That is a question I want to know aswell as my 998 SI Humminbird. I have been out 2 times lately in search ofcover, bait balls, schools of fish, or anything that looks like it might becrappie or crappie related. I ran my 998 on SI and DI or 2D from one of thebridges pretty much all the way out from the bridge through the winding channelthrough the creek and up the edges of the river. I went for miles. I barely sawanything on the graph anywhere. A few fish did show up only on a very fewoccasions on some laydowns where cover surrounded the laydowns. I am not sureall those fish symbols represented fish. The cover was so thick who knows. Idid manage to catch one crappie or so around 2 or 3 of those areas. I know thegraph works because I trolled one area last year and it showed very good detailand when it showed the fish and baitballs I caught fish. I just can not figureout where they go or hide this time of year. I thought some fish would alreadybe around the bridge. I manage only 1 or 2 there each trip right now and thegraph rarely shows anything. The channel is narrow all the way to the river andthere are shallow grass flats everywhere else where the water is only 1 to 3feet or so and full of grass. I am thinking of dropping some cover in thedeeper areas of the channel since there was not any to be found. I trolledcranks up the edge of the river and never caught a fish and never saw much ofanything on the graph. I wonder where all the fish come from so fast when theymove in. It seems they are not there or anywhere close and then all the sudden theymove in very quickly. I was really hoping my graph would put me on fish that Iwould not generally know where to find them, however I seem to be no better offwith it right now than I am without it. Where do all those fish hide. Do theystay schooled up and hug the bottom in very deep or water or do they separate thistime of year and swim more independently and school up as the weather cools. Iam starting to think spending over a grand on a 998 might have been overkill.
