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I dropped these trees over the weekend and im just curious as to where they are at exactly....i marked them with my gps and i can pull over these spots and it shows up on my graph....but my question is....according to the picture...whenever my boat slowly skims over the trees and they start showing on my graph just like in the picture....are they now directly under my boat? just wondering so ill know when and where to drop my mark bouy when fishing...
Just me, but I try to drop a marker just after I cross over structure. Not on top of it. I know where it is and don't want to disturb fish or risk getting tangled in marker line. That way if casting you can back off and cast to it or rigging you can ease baits up to it with crossing over with boat.
Is the transducer on the front or back, if front it will be directly under you, if back, you already passed over it
with that transducer, it will be under the rear of the boat. I like to run my TM ducer when jigging brush. Like cray said, drop a marker and you won't have to guess.
Mine is on the back of my boat and I always struggle with this issue. It is behind me but with the spread of the cone and depending on the depth it sometimes can really be just anywhere in a fairly wide area.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrGoodtime
I can only tell you how I do it. My console unit has the TD on the transom. I'm easing along and a pile shows up on the graph. I wait til the pile is gone and throw a marker back over my head, or to the upwind side if I think of it. Continue on and slowly and quietly come back upwind to the target. If it is with my TM unit, the TD is right in front of me and I throw a marker upwind and take the foot off the TM and wait for the wind to blow me off of it and approach as I see best. Once you have a bunch of tracks on the GPS you can then collect the marker and work back to the mark. This gets easier after you do it for a while. I try not to leave markers out on busy days as they become boat attractors.
they sure do
Thats why Arkie has came out with the New.......Stealth Markers.......check their website
I like the black ones best......they work great
I just put a X on the side of the boat to mark the spot i was catching them, that way if it ff goes out i still have the spot marked
MrGoodtime it sounds like you've been fishing with Junior Samples & Stringbean.
I used a little Fish Easy 320 and a hand held Garmin Rhino 120 for many years. The Garmin would put me on the pile and as soon as I saw the pile start to taper off and drop down I'd throw a buoy directly behind the boat. (The H-shaped ones don't unroll and get blown downwind and off structure as bad as the round ones). Then I'd make four runs close by the buoy in a tick-tac-tow grid pattern, two on each side of the buoy, then two more at 90 degrees to the first two. Each time I'd be looking to see if what I drew was more robust than my first buoy's graph picture, noting if the top of the pile graphed closer to the surface. If so, I'd throw another buoy. These four passes should reveal the exact location of the pile. Now I have a nice Lowrance unit that cost me an arm and a leg. And I still do it that way. I use to put an x on the side of my boat too. But I sold that boat.
transducer is in back of the boat and i was creeping slowly...as soon as it showed up on my screen i dropped the marker bouy directly out the back of the boatQuote:
Originally Posted by MrGoodtime
Man, it's tough when you lose your waypoints. [emoji12]Quote:
Originally Posted by Tonykarter
If you could PM me the coordinates I could probably give you a good answer.
Yeah, you are right! But I convinced the guy buying it to pay more money for it due to the all of the valuable information it contained on the side...Quote:
Man, it's tough when you lose your waypoints
Let us know how that works out for ya. [emoji4]Quote:
Originally Posted by bellman74354
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah, I bought the boat with the "x" marked on the side and caught the limit. Don't even turn my fish finder on any more.
You guys sure know how to Hi Jack a good thread. nonono
Hesh up Gewber. Go play with yo monkey!!! [emoji12]Quote:
Originally Posted by wilbur