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I was on trip here recently with a friend that does not run a unit upfront. He told me that he thought that the noise from the transducer spooks the fish. He runs his unit from the console with the transducer at the back of the boat. What are your thoughts? I run a unit on the bow and console.
I never heard of that one, I have no problem with mine, as far as I can tell. I do know on certain days, the hum of a troll motor will scare fish. Catfish on hooked on jugs, hear It up to 50yards away.
I had not either. He said the clicking from the transducer can spook them. I have been running a unit upfront for a long time and never seen a issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by trypman1
I always run mine, but have heard of people turning them off
I don't worry if the fish can hear me coming ...
I just want them well cooked before I get them out of the water ...
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But seriously ...here's some info on the frequency ranges that fish can "hear" ...
Can Fish Hear Sonar - YouTube
Rickie
I figure maybe they can feel it with the lateral line.The weak pulse of energy.Especially where it is real strong like in shallow water with a hard bottom.I do not think their is much in a fishes environment they are oblivious too. In most of the high pressure lakes I fish,some days in the spring it is nearly like traffic on a highway,the boats one after another that almost follow one another around. I think the fish have grown accustomed to it for the most part. As long as your boat is not to close or to loud,and your presentation and lure or bait type is right you'll get bit.
They get "pinged" about a million times a day some days LOL
If I sit in one place a long time its sort of interesting watching the spider riggers work over the water.Reminds me of like shrimp trawlers one after another basically mowing the lawn to find the fish.The fish have to get use to that and adapt.Sort of how they get use to the noise under a train trestle or road bridge.
If you fish a shallow body water like an old swamp or oxbow slough and your in the timber moving around....you will catch more fish with a small john boat and a scull paddle being real quite.At least it seemed like I did when I use to do that...long time ago
Another reason long line trolling is so effective....fish thinks your long gone ..LOL
Watching that video has me thinking about getting one of those silent stalkers to knock down some of the wave noiseQuote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
Rickie, Can you see fish in China?? Dude you got a heck of a set up, how many units are you running??Quote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
*Mapping on the 1197 ...Quote:
Originally Posted by crappie4me2
*SI on the 1197 (only when Onix is on mapping) ...
*DI on the Onix ...
*2d on either ...
*Touch 7 when experimenting ...
*A haberdashery of xducer combinations depending on which xducer piezo I'm trying to make do something it's not supposed to do ....
Oh and I still have my old Eagle 480 ... Just in case ...
Rickie
You are the man!!!:ThumbsUp
well there is no reason for me to try it cause first thing I'd do it is drag it across a rock dike or big old stump.
I kind of really don't believe it to be honest. If anyone has ever dove in a lake, they will notice that there are noises coming from all over the place. A motor from a boat at long distance will sound like a buzzing noise, as it gets closer, it gets louder. Do the fish feel the ping of the xducer? Probably, but whether it is in the front or the back, they are still going to feel it. Just not as pronounced from one to the other.
Fishing Lake Michigan, downrigger cables are known to put out small ohms of electricity. Many people thought that this electricity was causing fish to become scared of hitting leads off from a downrigger. Several companies came out with a black box that you plug in to the rigger cable basically grounding the rigger so that it doesn't send the pulse. One could then surmise that that particular rigger "should" catch more fish. I tested one of these in great length and never had a day when this caught any more fish than another. I think it was a person trying to figure out why his boat wasn't catching as many fish as the boat next to him. Instead of testing both of them to come up with a logical answer (other than the amount of Ohms his cable put out) he probably would have come up with the fact that the other boat was fishing with different size cannon balls, different make up that caused different water distortion, and different release clips. Furthermore, they were probably fishing with different leads hence the reason for success.
Sometimes, it isn't what one is doing to NOT catch fish, but what they are NOT doing to catch fish.
We have all seen time and time again where one guy is catching fish like crazy while another guy cannot buy a bite. Could it be that he is a better fishermen? No, probably not. He is just doing something that you are not doing. That is a lot of stuff. From line diameter, to hook size and even the color of the hook at times. Usually, the simplest of things are the hardest to find.