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Trying to figure out exactly what I'm looking at in these pictures. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...64424509d4.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...51ff166dbd.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...9307110098.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...c1f7e46444.jpg
Garmin echomap 73dv
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I have a Garmin also, I'm no expert but usually when I see what you're seeing in pics 2,3, and 4 I put my baits at that depth or slightly above and start catchin fish. As far as the vertical lines it could be your sonar picking up air bubbles coming off the bottom, If you change your chart speed and the line becomes more vertical at slower speeds and more horizontal at higher chart speeds then that's more than likely what you're seeing.
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Awesome. Thanks! Do you ever see defined arches? I read one forum where a guy said that there are never any defined arches on the mid-grade garmin fish finders?
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Pics 2,3,4 appear to be balls of bait fish
My guess is bait fish and maybe a few fish mixed in . One clue to tell whether it is Crappie or not is how tightly fish show bunched . Shad will show bunched tight and some lakes have Gizzard Shad up to 2 lbs . Some folks try lowering sensitivity as it could show better without as much clutter . I use Huminbirds but the first could be like RK1 said , I see lots of spots here where lake bottom is emittiong gases from decaying matter . But you will see the bubbles on the water surface around you if that's it. During high water on some flood control lakes I have seen trash show up .
Herb Parsons Lake got any crappie in it ? Lol !!!
Thanks for the help fellas. Haha you put the gps coordinates in eh?
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I'm not convinced there's anything in Herb Parsons but a couple small catfish. It's deeper and has more structure than some of the lakes I've fished, so I was excited about finding at least a school of yellow bass. Just couldn't figure where they were and what they wanted!
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Your not the first to forget to cover coordinates on your screen when posting .:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Adcarson79
3 trips to HP lately and no Crappie! I used to catch them by the hundreds with very few keepers but fun????
I've been using my Garmin upfront while fishing for about 3 months now and I'm yet to see a good arch like I do on my humminbird. But it more than gets the job done for the price
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Amen brother. I don't care what they look like on the screen, as long as it helps me out fish in the boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by RK1
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That's what I heard. Just a bunch of throwback fish, but if you found them, you were gonna catch a bunch!Quote:
Originally Posted by trypman1
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I'd say picture one (the streaks) are fish either moving closer or farther from the transducer quickly. The closer to the ducer, the shallower they look in the cone. The farther from the ducer the lower they look in the cone. That's why larger stationary fish make an arch. When the cone first hits them they are in the edge of the cone. The closer you get to the fish the higher the mark gets. When you get to the top of the arch you're either directly over the fish or as close to them as you can get on that path. When the cone starts moving away from the fish, it completes the arch. The streaks are probably feeding fish chasing a meal. (The fish are moving faster than the cone). The squiggly lines in the bait on 2-3 are probably white bass or maybe cats feeding in the bait. I seen that image a lot on the big 4 and usually catch whites when I see it. Definitely lots of bait in 2-3-4
When slow trolling over stationary fish, the mark looks more like a straight line because the transducer makes multiple pings on the same fish very quickly. No quick change from the ducer as you move slowly over them.
Junk in the water has a completely different profile.... the junk will stratify closer to the surface and not look like fish .... some of the bubbles are Natural Gas escaping through cracks in the rock under the lake floor... I have seen the Diagonal lines run both up and down, making them feeding fish --- or escaping Never caught anything where this was happening
'Preeciate the help. Very helpful. I didn't realize it was going to be such a learning curve.
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Actually found some arches last weekend. Now on to the task of catching these marked fish!
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I fished for years at herb parsons and never caught much other then small cats, and a very few small crappie,,,it gets fished a lot and people there take anything....