So does anyone fish or just nah???

[John Wargo]

Awesome present. Happy birthday man

Thank you

 

[Tiewire]

Great present. Take your time getting into tying as it can get expensive quickly!

 

[Only the Tony]

Cold this morning.

 

[Lions fan]

Yesterday's catch is almost thawed out enough to clean. Not as impressive as Tony's batch, but beggars can't be choosers.

 

[Only the Tony]

Yesterday's catch is almost thawed out enough to clean. Not as impressive as Tony's batch, but beggars can't be choosers.

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Nice bunch, all blacks. Funny thing is I usually catch more whites, but Saturday all but three were blacks. Spent about 4 hours on a brush pile that is just off main channel so they were constantly moving in and out of it.

 

[Only the Tony]

Thirty foot one way is 5 foot of water, 20 foot the other is 45 foot of water.

 

[Lions fan]

Nice bunch, all blacks. Funny thing is I usually catch more whites, but Saturday all but three were blacks. Spent about 4 hours on a brush pile that is just off main channel so they were constantly moving in and out of it.

I don't think we have any whites in my neighborhood. Usually I'll take home a dozen gills and a speck or two, but the gills just weren't cooperating after that cold snap we had.

 

[John Wargo]

Got some fly tying equipment. Made a few of these Eggstacy eggs the other night. And a few mop flies.

 

[Johnmn]

Teaching my youngest how to jig fish and how it can out fish bobber fishing with live bait at times. We caught way more but this is what we took home.

 

[Catfishclark89]

Christmas Eve Crappie. Bite was slow today after a bunch of rain a few days ago. Fish were really scattered. Glad to catch what I did though. Caught a black nose but was too short to keep.

 

[Lions fan]

Merry Christmas fellas!!!

 

[Only the Tony]

Bit slow yesterday, overcast and fish didn't want to bite. I was more interested in figuring out new graph anyway. Still had a good day away.

 

[Lions fan]

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Bit slow yesterday, overcast and fish didn't want to bite. I was more interested in figuring out new graph anyway. Still had a good day away.

What make of "graph" did you purchase?
I'm working on my speck identification skills. Looks like 9 whites and 3 blacks?

 

[Only the Tony]

I would agree on the three blacks, but I would wonder if this was a hybrid. I guess you can count the dorsal fins and the shape behind the dorsal makes me wonder. Changed out to Garmin on the front for now. Will eventually replace all with Garmin at some date. Bass pro had a bundle deal with Echomap ultra2 and LVS34 black friday with the credit card. Had friend pick it up for me and gave him the cash for it with a little extra for his time.

 

[Lions fan]

Any steelheaders on thus thread?? Pretty slow this morning, just one small, camera-shy taker this morning.

 

[Tiewire]

Caught 5 crappie yesterday and scaled them before filleting and left tail one side. Hardly ever do that as it’s a pain but they sure were tasty.

 

[Johnmn]

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Bit slow yesterday, overcast and fish didn't want to bite. I was more interested in figuring out new graph anyway. Still had a good day away.

Curious to hear your thoughts/opinions on the “live scope” set up. My son has been after me to take the plunge but man they are not cheap!

 

[Only the Tony]

Curious to hear your thoughts/opinions on the “live scope” set up. My son has been after me to take the plunge but man they are not cheap!

I am divided on my thoughts on them. You might try to find someone with one and take a look firsthand to decide. I learned to fish without them so the transition is interesting. I mainly use it to locate fish in brush piles and set my depth. But now I can see how the fish are reacting to color, speed, etc. One of the main things has been boat placement. I can setup off the side of a pile with anchor lock and can drop jigs and know I'm not getting hung up in it. I learned on regular sonar how to do about the same thing, but this is at a different level. Saturday I watched fish come out of the brush to feed as schools of shad came over them. I started flipping my jigs out over the top and could watch the depth of my jigs and keep them just over the brush. I started with the Lowrance active target since I had Lowrance charts anyway and they interfaced with my Xi5 trolling motor. I am going to phase over to Garmin over the next few years. Their trolling motor is stupid expensive and I will probably try to find a used one at some point, but not for a while.

 

[Catfishclark89]

I don’t own a forward facing sonar. My boat has down and side imaging. But I have fished a lot with FFS. Here’s my analogy for it. Fishing with it is like shooting a crossbow with a scope at 450fps vs without FFS as to shooting a longbow with fingers

 

[Catfishclark89]

Live scope bunch today. 4 hours