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I have been seeing lots of dense clouds of something in the water on my fish finder. I suspect it is Plankton or Algae. Can someone please post some fish finder pics of the Algae or Plankton in the water so I can get a better idea of what I am looking at?
Thanks,
Bill
It may be easier for you to take and post some pictures of what you are seeing and maybe it can be explained to you what it could be. I am curious to see what you are looking at and how it would look on a FF. I cant think of a time that I had one show up and if I did, I wouldn't of ever guessed it being caused by Plankton or Algea so now you have me curious.
Bait balls, thermocline???
Here are some pics:Quote:
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Bill
Here are some pics:Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNip
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Algae or??
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That's not algae, too deep.
Looks like small bait to me, in the clouds, some of those were fish on the bottom and side scan pics Looked a lot like what I think are gar on mine. some of the ones standing vertical could be weeds coming up from the bottom, I seen these a lot on sooner.
This years shad fry have hatched and there are clouds after clouds of them all over the lakes I have been on. It's been that way since early July. That's the reason downsizing baits this time of years produces more fish hooked up instead of short strikes. From what I have seen on the images that's what you are seeing except what DSteeet pointed out.......Ranger
X2 what Darrell said
I'm no expert but a lot of those pics look like bait to me. You have 2d of them?
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Bill
Don't know what they are but they look creepy to me- ectoplasmic. Tell us where they are so we avoid swimming there.
Very small shad
We are seeing tons this year
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It's baitfish from what I can see on your graphs pictures, the last 2 show this very well.
Skiatook Lake this week looks like alien blob forms all over the lake with the small bait forms everywhere.
Wish i would have saved some screen grabs of it. Was very crazy and cool looking.
Thermocline is much easier to see with your 83z 2d. You will see a faint to aggressive line at certain depths. We were seeing a temp change around 25' at Skiatook this week.
Plankton will cause your 2d 83z graph to a blur up a solid color. if you get up to Colorado on Blue Mesa Reservoir or one of those lakes with heavy zooplankton, you can actually see the plankton at top 10-20 feet this time of year with your eyes snd it looks like little white-green teeny dots everywhere in the water and both your sidescan/downsan and 2d 83z will be a blur in this area. It's kinda freaky looking in the water seeing the plankton everywhere on surface.
FYI for the Hybrid fishermen. Hit Skiatook from sunup too around 9:30 or so and watch for schoolers splashing on top.
I was on Kaw yesterday. Saw the exact same blobs of bait fish.
Millions and millions of fry, looks like all of our lakes had really good spawns this year. EB
this is what Eufaula looked like yesterday in spots. Not as wild as we saw on Skiatook but tons of 1/4 inch fry everywhere.
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