Thread: Livescope lessons

You know many times in the past I wondered why I got bit or why someone else got bit doing something a bit different . The ability to see why is pretty cool.
I often wondered why a rising bait seemed to get hit often and often why right when it stopped or dropped a bit after it rose it got hit .
Watching the crappie on livescope confirmed many things I suspected over the years .
The one most certain thing is that the rising bait method that I thought might be just a case of covering more water volume and by raising the bait you would eventually drag it by a suspended fish is most likely not what is going on .
I do not know for sure if its a year round activity for crappie as I don't have a livescope I just get to watch my buds sometimes , but to be sure crappie LOVE to follow baits up if it interests them as a potential food item.
Some of the time they follow a bait for a good long time and I have seen some go from pretty deep to darn near the top before they either fade back away or hammer the bait .
So now in my newest bag of tricks when they are not cooperating and I am fishing without the tools to see for sure and that happens more often than not .
I am now employing a slowly rising bait presentation a lot more often when I suspect there are fish under me and want it just so so .
Technology scares us Neanderthals and to be sure many times I run from it and try to stay with the tools I came to this planet with , but many a fisher person will become a lot better at ketchn crappie using a livescope than they were before its arrival .
So to be sure if you can afford a unit and want to learn more it is a tool that teaches lessons well and will most assuredly help even the most seasoned of anglers to ketch more crappie .
No worries though from me and my livescope as I run lean and cant take it serious enough to spend much on technology ,so if I get a boat and unless someone just gives me a livescope it isn't likely I will ever own one .
Heck I cant even bring myself to drop much more than the cost of one of these units on a "depreciating" asset like a boat , but in the end some depreciating assets are in fact greatly "appreciated" .
All this said if someone wants to go and get all kinds of serious on an act of kindness in 2020 ,,please keep Mr. Johnny B Ketchn in your thoughts as I would for sure use a "free" livescope unit with or without a "free" boat.
Heck I was thinking if I did get a gifted livescope I might even hurry up on getting a boat to put under it …..
hope everyone has a blessed new year
and KABOOM is the word yawl

watching crappie swim up to your bait and then swim away is frustrating .
Garmin needs to make the screen fist/boot proof is my thought.
you get all excited watching them close in on your jig .
then they just turn and fade away …...oh the evilness of it all …..