Some Underwater Screen Shots from Harris

Took a number of screen shots the past two days on Harris and thought some of you might be interested in seeing some of them.

Need help with this one. Any idea if those are beds in that old stream bed? And if so, what kind of fish would bed in 18' water? By the way, notice there are some nice fish in the upper left corner of the picture. That should be a flat just off the channel and would be a good place to fish. We pre-fished this place, but found better numbers of crappie in other places.

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You will not believe where this shot was taken. I was coming in to let Charles off at the Crosspoint Boat ramp and this is what I saw. You could throw a rod off the dock and catch these fish. With all the white perch in Harris, this could be shad on the top and perch below.

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This is another shot of the same fish. This shot was important, because it told us the "strike zone" in which we knew we had to fish on Saturday.

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Somebody put a crappie condo in a cove and we lost several hooks in it. We did use the Spot Lock feature to fish this brushpile yesterday, but only found little ones.

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This was taken in cove yesterday in which we caught almost 150 fish. It is full of perch and crappie between 5"-10". We were hoping there would be some big ones hanging out in this area as well, but we were not able to catch them. It is always a good sign when you see a bottom with this many fish.

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Same cove, but a different crappie condo. This was taken later in the morning and told me the fish had moved. At daybreak, the fish were primarily in 12'-13' of water. In the SI shot in this picture, darker is deeper and you can see they have moved out deeper. This is one of my favorite methods to find fish. The SI lets me see away from the boat, but the 2D and DI help me under the boat.

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This shot is taken from Jordan Lake a week ago. Charles purchased the I-Pilot link back earlier this year, but because of the tournament schedule, we did not have a chance to get it working. In this shot, we have the Follow the Contour feature turned on. The gray line (11' deep contour) is the track we were following. I'm posting this to help some of you find fish in your favorite lake. As you can see, crappie love flats. Up on the shallower flat and the deeper flat are good numbers of fish. If we had been seriously fishing, we would select a track that was either on the upper or lower flat, not the drop-off. Hope this helps some as you try to locate summer fish.

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GREAT SHOTS,I LIKE.ONIX?

Yes, Onix 8. We upgraded all the software about two weeks ago. Their are four software operated gadgets on the boat: Onix 8, I-Pilot, I-Pilot remote and 360 Imaging. It is important to keep all of them upgraded with the latest versions. Twice yesterday the handheld completely locked up on us and we had to remove the back panel, then unplug the battery. The Onix is operating a lot better with the new upgrade, but not sure what is happening with the I-Pilot link.

I THINK THE ONIX IS ONE GREAT MACHINE. I HAVE DI 2D ON FRONT AND 998 AND 859 ON BACK,I LOVE THEM,FINALLY GOT IT WHERE I CAN SEE 998SI AND 859 DI ON CONSOLE AT SAME TIME WITHOUT ANY CROSS TALK,THIS WAY I USE FULL SCREEN SI AND SPLIT DI AND GPS OR SONAR ON 859,A GREAT HELP,THIS WAY I GET GOOD DI PIC,LOVE TO SEE YOUR ONIX ON WATER SOMETIMES,IT LOOKS LIKE U GOT IT TUNE IN

Awesome pics guys. That thing virtually puts the fish in the boat before even putting a hook in the water.

ON FIRST PIC,TO ME I THINK IT IS OLD WASH OUT THAT HAVE NOT FILL,THEY ARE NOT ROUND ,SOME ARE LONG CUTS,DOUBT THEY ARE BEDS

Great shots. I love this stuff. I would not interpret those as beds, but a rock field that hasn't silted over. Good info about crappie and flats. I have always looked for drop offs and such. I am re-thinking that now!

That's awesome! You have those setting figured out!