A pretty good place to catch a crappie

[RCC]

[gabowman]

Please narrate what I'm seeing.

[Billy E]

Are those the pallets you put in?

[rnvinc]

Please narrate what I'm seeing.

Most of the "white clouds" scarrered across the SI image are baitballs or small schools of fish....

Schools of fish are generally a group of individual white specks (each speck about the same size, but each speck still large enough to separate it from the other white specks in the group).....
Baitballs are generally just a "white cloud" (because the individual baitfish are too small and too tightly packed together to see individual white specks in the group)...

There seems to be a few pieces of structure ...indicated by the shadow that emanates outward from where it seems the structure is contacting the bottom...

The "white streaks" (2 down each side of the dark water column) would seem to be the baits from spider riggin poles that are in the effective area that would be picked up by the left and right SI beams...(I'm guessing on this one but that's how my spider riggin baits show up in the dark water column)..

Rickie

[RCC]

All of those light specks are probably crappie stacked (at least fish of some kind). There is some bamboo structure right on the 2 ft drop off. The boat almost dead centered it. The wad of fish to the top and just to the right of the water column could be large shad or could be another massive bunch of crappie. This lake is full of small crappie about 8 inches.

When we were dragging cranks saturday, I could tell the wife that we were fixing to get bit.

[RCC]

Thanks rnvinc. I wondered what the lines were. The lines are 2 poles out each side long lining cranks. The return is the line itself. The cranks were far behind. I was thinking it was some kind of boat interference. Let me try this again with a little larger pic. This one should be a zoom of the same area with a shad ball and schools of crappie.

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[rnvinc]

Thanks rnvinc. I wondered what the lines were. The lines are 2 poles out each side long lining cranks. The return is the line itself.The cranks were far behind. I was thinking it was some kind of boat interference. Let me try this again with a little larger pic. This one should be a zoom of the same area with a shad ball and schools of crappie.

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I would say you are correct that the SI beams are picking up the line as it passes thru the thin slice sonar beam...

I'm guessing you may be using some type of superline... I think a superline or braided line would show a good reflection like your image is indicating...
Rickie