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Lately I have been scanning for fish with my new Garmin 93sv. I keep finding what I think are schools of crappie but I end up catching stripers, I about broke a nice trolling rod yesterday on a big one. How do you guys tell the difference, or can you?
Can't help about your scanning, but if you remove one of the P's you'll be good to go on your spelling!
Haha, I always get it backwards!Quote:
Originally Posted by armyman
River strippers now there's an idea.
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If you are running Side Scan, look at the bottom shadows. The fish will show up as a white dot or line but the shadows under the fish will give away the SIZE of the fish. IMO, after that, it's pretty much an educated guess as to species. I have a lot of clients ask what is that particular fish species on my Helix 12 Mega and honestly, I have no idea other than an educated guess.
I thought maybe they school differently or something. I have read where people talked about christmas tree stacks of crappie. I have to admit it was fun catching a 3 pound strip on a 12' Jenko trolling rod.Quote:
Originally Posted by M R Dux
stripes tend to be less concentrated and typically send bark larger marks . and most of the time they are not on heavy cover
I am with the educated guess crowd though
I get excited when I’m longlining or pulling cranks and see a “Christmas tree” shaped school of fish on my electronics. In my experience that’s feeding crappie and I will put a waypoint on the Helix and circle back so I can go thru that school from several different directions.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoughriverRick
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