Some Interesting Pre-dawn Screenshots from Jordaqn

Took these screenshots last Saturday morning before the tournament on Jordan. I get better reflections of the fish when it is night or low light. Went in this area today and with the water cooling, the fish are moving. The migration to deeper water is taking place.

I had the setting for 200 feet out from both sides of the boat. As you can see, there is diminishing returns at about 150, so I dialed it back. People have asked me if all the fishing pressure in the Farrington area is wiping out all the crappie population. From these images, it is clear there is a very large population of crappie. They are scattered all over a huge area. Because they are scattered, we chose to long-line last week to target these crappie.

All of the fish you see in these shots will eventually go through the channel at the Farrington bridge. They are all going to winter in the deeper parts of the lake along with the shad. My thoughts are that yes, several thousand crappie are being caught in the Farrington area, but there is such a large population that I don't think the fishing pressure will impact the stocks on this part of the lake. Feel free to chime in and share you thoughts.


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Any 360 shots?

I used the 360 several times, but didn't make any screen shots. We went up into a cove yesterday with very little wind. By 3:00, up in water no more than five feet, we saw schools of shad on the surface. I immediately turned on the 360 to get a look at what was under the water. There were some fish up there, but more back in the 12-14' range. My Father was using an ultra-light rod and casting a jig. On a couple of occasions, I was able to tell him to throw out 25' at 2:00 and the other time I told him to cast out at 11:00. He didn't catch them, but tried. Mom and I were tight-lining minnows out the back. Using DI, twice I told her to get ready for a bite and sure enough, she caught them.

Even with a 12'' screen I run mine at 100' to each side, it makes things stand out more to me, and like u said further out the return gets so dark its not quit as useful. Even if u had a 24'' screen to be able to see effectively 200' to the side the sensitivity would have to be so high it would "wash" out stuff close to the boat

Thanks for sharing