When you fellows are fishing open water to livescope, where’s the best places to start my search on the lake?
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When you fellows are fishing open water to livescope, where’s the best places to start my search on the lake?
I don't ls but a good place to begin might be bends in the channel
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Also look for those bait balls. Schools of shad, usually they aren't very far.
dave do you start in the mouths of the coves, middle of the coves.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
Start shallow and work out.
As SD said bait balls are also good to find. They won’t be far away.
Even in the dead of winter they are sometimes shallow. 3-6 foot of water.
Not that your boat will be in that depth but the fish will. Wind blown banks and sometimes on the edge of main creek or river channel.
Time on the water brother!!!!
Once you find them the work starts on presentation, type, size and color.
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This is where the console fish finder comes in by looking for crappies and bait balls riding around until you find the larger number of fish.
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Hard to beat a console mounted finder when searching for bait / fish
And cover . Side imaging at the console is pretty much invaluable to find cover & fish both & then using livescope to catch them go hand in hand in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
I would start with creek channels and ledges and like stated look for bait balls of shad. Humps in lakes would be good spots to check also. You are likely not to only find some crappie but white bass and hybrids also.
Around here as of yesterday the water temperature was 58 degrees, do I need to look shallower than the channels and drop offs in deeper water, these fish here are staging for spawning, and I agree that all the crappie don’t spawn at the same time. Been looking at the mouth of coves, see lots of small fish, just no big ens on the livescope. But it’s windy windy windy today so I’m sitting here wishing I was fishin.
Any North side of the lake with coves and shallow dark bottom early spring ( especially after ice out ) this is where I start my search, any warmer water will draw in all species of fish.
if there were black crappie present in your lake I would look in less than 15 foot of water this time of year with 58 degree water temps. on the north end near a steep rocky bank with a quick drop off near it , never mind the bait , go find them prespawn puppies ....
and I would drop the brightest ORANGE small handtie in my box as well ....might work