Thread: A few livescope pics

Originally Posted by 91tiger

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.

Please post a pic what you see when finding crappie schools. I tried it, moving towards blobs at a range of 70ft. But never ended up with a nice school.

Thanks

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