After the suggestions you all had about moving my transducer, adjustments were made and I think it made a difference. I'm still toying with the sensitivity and contrast settings. The first couple of pictures are of an old rock dike(jetty).
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After the suggestions you all had about moving my transducer, adjustments were made and I think it made a difference. I'm still toying with the sensitivity and contrast settings. The first couple of pictures are of an old rock dike(jetty).
The next one you will see lots of gar or Asian carp, especially to the left side.
Here's another rock dike. Notice the "cloudy" shadow in the mid picture left side. Baitfish (shad)???
Good looking images.
Regards
Great looking images man! I really love this. Now i need to know how ya identified those fish as asian carp, because there are alot of those around my waters, and I need to know how to identify them so I dont wast my time fishing for something that isnt gonna bite. I Like to fish for catfish as well and want to know how to find the big boys on my graph. I have on several instances seen a big fish and post up on em and it hasnt paid off yet. But I see youtube videos of people doing that and its game on for them.
Did you try to catch any of these fish on this dike? If yes, what did ya catch?
From my understanding of reading these images, the further the shadow from the fish, the higher in the water column the fish are. On this day the gar and Asian carp were just under the waters surface. I just deducted that with the size of the fish and their position as to what they are.
I did fish that dike and did not catch a fish. Not even a bite
Pictures look better than before:ThumbsUp
Pretty impressive pictures. What are you doing with your sensitivity setting
I likey likey...a lot!!!
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Rickie
On average, my sensitivity is setting on 14. In shallower water, 10 feet or less, I have been bumping it down a little and when I get a little deeper, bumping it up just a little. I just watch the screen pretty close and let the screen tell me what it needs.Quote:
Originally Posted by dwaw
Thanks. I'm out 60'. I think I'll push my sensitivity up @60' then shrink the distance to see what happens.
dwaw, I've been experimenting with that also. These shots are coming off a 798 and I can see detail better with the SI distance on 30-45 feet. That's the only reason I have them set like that.
ark, I use a 798 also at the bow. I mostly spider rig deep water for suspended fish with an i-pilot. I think 45' would plenty if it gives me images that I can react to. I fish an electric only lake so my speed is way down but can't do anything about that. I'm just starting to make productive use of Spot lock over brush or structure holding fish so images like what you're showing would be great. Thanks
arkcrappie, nice images...I hope to get my 798 out on the water for the second time this weekend, this reminds me I need a memory card...just left Wal-Mart and did not think to get one. I will have to remember tomorrow, so I can post up a few pictures.
Looking better ark, I would think that shadow to the left you spoke of is soft bottom and some type of a depression.
Slabbacks, I guess what made me think baitfish was the small darker blue patch just above and to the right of that large shadow. I actually have a picture of a similar place in the same lake over a mile away. I had just made a turn after coming through the area, so hence the swirls in the bottom of the picture and some of the disturbance where the boat was traveling. I saw the depressing and turned quickly to go back over it to check it out.
Awesome pics man! Did u wet a hook here?
No LowePro. Just wanted to get some use on the 798. I've been told you got to use it to figure it out. Trying to use it as much as possible
I totally understand! This is so much fun isn't it!!!
Ark
In the bottom of things like this you will find sediment build up (silt ect). You have less of a return and this will show as darker. What would interest me more is what was the water temp in and around this depression? Differences in water flow due to disturbed sediment and temp could give the return I'm seeing just above the depression (what you are taking for bait fish).
You may have just found a underwater spring. The only difference being that in the shots I've seen of springs the trail of higher temp water mixed with sediment is strung out more and they are mostly winter shots.
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Slabbacks, next time I'm over there I'll check it out. That place is not hard to find. I'm thinking your idea is very possible. This being on a Mississippi River oxbow and the river falling, there are a lot of places where under ground water is coming out. In this lake we have found places like that before but usually the water is a little different in color around it and usually some bubbles coming to the surface. More that's once we have caught fish on places like that. We've made it a joke about finding some bubbles to fish
I believe I would fish bubbles!
I have had folks tell me when they see bubbles that it is from fish. I asked, "What did they do, break wind???"
If that the case I'll start chumming with beans!! :Rofl
Hahahahaha
closeness of shadow to marked fish is only in effect with fish to the side of the boat (not in the water column)
The white fish in the water colum are about 2' up to 8'
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