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    Default Help me learn what I'm looking at.


    I've had an Eagle FishMark 500c up front in my boat but added a Lowrance X510C to the rear. It has much better pixel resolution and I'm able to see a lot more with it. I'm still trying to make sure that I know what I'm looking at so help me out if you can.

    Are these two pics a ball of baitfish?





    Is this a ball of baitfish just above the weed line?



    What exactly am I looking at here? I was trolling crankbaits when I took the pic, it's not my lure or anything like that.



    Ball of baitfish to the right of some structure and fish?


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    A few more.

    No idea what this is.



    Similar.



    Big fish?



    All input appreciated.

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    UFO's!!!!

    Actually, if the guy I fish with on Lake Ontario is'nt BS'ing me when we see graphs like that, pods of baitfish is what they are - some look like baitfish with some bigger fellers trying to eat 'em.

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    Looks like baitfish and then all the littler arches around it are bigger fish try to eat them. The other thing it it could be cover like a tree with fish relating to it? Do you have the greyline feature? and are you using it?

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    A couple of your pictures look like a large tree top but the rest of them does look like a bait ball with fish around it.

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    Bait fish is the big images and the line of small dots is the thermocline. The bait fish is near a drop off. Top signals could be air bubbles or feed back from a hard bottom.
    I would have slow rolled a spinnerbait through it. A lot of the time the crappie will show up as a straight line at an angle to the direction in which you are moving.

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    My interpritation would be that the first two are tightly formed baitfish the rest look like baitfish spread out with bigger fish chasing them.
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    It looks like baitfish in the first couple, weeds with some baitfish, maybe a large fish rising from the bottom or some logs, and a tree top or brush with some fish around it.
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    I see the St. louis arch in one of them. Or McDonald's arches.

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    I was going to suggest Nessie.
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