Thread: Crappie in Side Image

Doing a post to show what crappie look like in side image. This is 7 foot of water and occurred 7/22/15 water temp 91-94 degrees trolling crankbaits.

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Nice mess of feeshies ...

Rickie

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Originally Posted by LowePro

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That's fish? I would have just thought it was trash or unit set wrong.

Originally Posted by tcounty

That's fish? I would have just thought it was trash or unit set wrong.

This is common when learning to interpret fish echoes in the SI image (thinking that the white dots seen are on the display are not fish) ...

I always suggest setting the SI Range really short (30-40ft or even less on a smaller display) until one can effectively interpret a fish echo from a trash echo ...

Crappie make very VERY small echoes ...



Rickie

I agree tcounty. I have had my 598SI for over a year and if I saw this on my hummingbird SI, I would have passed right by it and called it trash, humps, or nothing. Thank you LowePro for posting this. I just need to be a little more patient the next time I go out side imaging a lake.

Originally Posted by tcounty

That's fish? I would have just thought it was trash or unit set wrong.

Very nice LowePro!! Those look like very nice size fish, will fish that size cast a shadow if they are off to the side?? How tight together would the school have to be to cast a shadow showing whole school? I can see fish below on my 899 but not sure of size of fish but having trouble seeing fish off to side. I'm sure most is my inexperience on reading and adjusting unit.

Those are a couple of slabs your holding in your profile pik Swampseed!

They do not have to be very big to cast a shadow. In fact there are shadows in the image they are just hard to see because I took this picture with my phone of my graph. A "pik of a pik" takes out alot of detail as to what was really in the image. To make the fish pop out more turn ur sharpness up. This will make the fish pop out even more but often distorts everything else in the image. So I usually have my sharpness set on low until I find something that looks like fish, and then will turn it up to see just how many fish are out to the side. Need to make sure the distance ur scanning is appropriate for the depth you are scanning to see smaller fish like crappie. (EX. I was originally scanning at 85 feet in 7 feet deep of water. I saw these fish but they didn't pop out, they just barely caught my eye. So I narrowed my distance to 60 feet in 7 foot of water and that made the crappie way more noticeable. Almost jumped out at me. Shortening the distance "magnified" what was on the screen making the crappie proportionally correct with everything else that was on the screen.