-
1 Attachment(s)
Are these crappie?
Do the fish on the edge of this drop-off look like crappie? I recently got two new Humminbird units and I'm trying to figure out what I'm looking at. Ordinarily I'd just be able to compare what I catch to what I see on the screen...but I'm not having any luck catching crappie. It might be because I'm not identifying them properly on the graph. Any advice would be appreciated.
Attachment 143219
-
-
Same here. The returns are a little large for crappie. Their returns are a lot smaller.
-
Any Walleye in that lake, sure looks like some marble eyes to me
-
I would have to agree with the consensus that they may not be crappie - they look a little large. Pretty tightly stacked together - so they don't look like walleye.
-
Thanks guys. No Walleye in this lake...sounds like they are bass. I see a lot of pics of crappie where they are schooled up in a "tower" type formation. Do they generally stack up like that? Is that what I should be looking for every time I hit the water?
-
I've found that some times what I see as a "tower" formation is a single "stob" or tree trunk with fish suspended up and down it - but our interpretations may be different. It also depends on how they are "schooling" - some times in "clumps" of three to ten, sometimes large schools will look like clouds. In the Championship at Grenada - we would mark "scattered" fish - where some of them were showing up as "individuals". Please be careful with my "opinion" on this matter due to the fact that I have a lot to learn about "reading crappies on sonar and imaging"! But that is what is so fun about fishing!
-
Next time you see them near bottom ,drop a hopkin on them and they will let you know.