brettw

Alot of good points brought up already. Oct. is a special time to be out there, bait balls and slabs with the feed bag on.

When I use the DI this time of year in areas where I have brush out already, I'll hit the brush piles one at a time looking for the one with the most activity. I'll keep this up till I find one that looks really good and drop a marker. After hitting the other brush I know of and maybe marking another one I'll then go back and start fishing the first marker I put out. I'll start from the outside and work into the middle of the brush. The time spent checking other locations let the fish move back into the spot if spooked.

As already said above those fish will move if you have your boat right on top of them in the depths we have them right now around here in TN. Later in the season though when they pull out deep it's a def. story. In this picture from Dec. (if i recall right) you can see the crappie stacked on the ledge of the channel in the trees. I was able to get over them with a bottom bounce rig and have a ball using a flasher unit after finding them with the DI. The other photo is just a reference. We are finding them in 8-12 fow in brush, these I would slide into with a spider rig just bumping the edges or cast to.






After using the DI for close to a year now I have to agree with shellback, I can see the added help a SI unit will give. I just ordered a 898c HD SI from Brian at BBG that should be here soon. Will be interesting to see at least.

On this tree I've marked fish stacked in and around it from the DI, went over it and saw nothing...this is just in front of the houseboat.

After parking the boat and dropping a camera down I noticed something else. I saw no bait fish at all through the water from top to bottom. In the next few weeks as the water temps drop start looking for that and I hope you get a boat load. The large schools on the screen will show back up too.