Quote Originally Posted by BigDawgg View Post
So you guys are chasing fish and the other guys on YouTube video's are sitting still and catching fish. What is the purpose of chasing them if you wanting to be catching fish? Just trying to make since of what you are doing. I understand trying to find schools of stripers but I don't understand trying to sneak up on crappies. Why waste the time to do the chasing part?
As you metioned, I was seeing schools of stripers in the area and moving around trying to find them with the live scope. I've had a lot of luck this winter getting in an area where I marked a bunch of fish with the big motor and then coming back through with the live scope and casting a jigging spoon into the schools. They respond much better generally speaking than if I try to get dead over them and vertical jig like I used to do pre live scope. Usually when I hook one or the jig passes through the school of stripers, the whole school will follow it back and then I can drop straight down into them and go to work on them. I've only had Livescope for a couple of months but it has already changed the way I am striper fishing. Yesterday, I just happened into those crappie schools while looking for the stripers and used the same lure and technique to catch them that I do with the stripers.

For specifically targeting crappie, I don't like to troll at all. Spent way too many days pulling planer boards for stripers and much prefer to single pole jig or cast for crappie, perch or stripers. When the crappie are prespawn and have left the brush piles for the open water flats in the creeks and coves, I was saying I think I can spot them out in front of me with live scope and cast a heavier jig/grub at them much like I did yesterday with the jigging spoon. I can basically use my electronics to sight fish for open water fish much like I'm doing the stripers right now.