Thread: 2 lakes, 2 days, zero fish

Got the boat out this weekend with my new helix 7 SI and went to two different lakes. Yatesville on Saturday and Grayson on Sunday. Did not catch a single fish at either place. Checked with 4 area bait shops and NONE of them had minnows... apparently they all use the same supplier who hasn’t had minnows all winter. So that was disappointing. But I wasn’t too discouraged. I mostly wanted to try out my new SI unit anyway. We tried casting jigs, verticals jigging, and longlining, and didn’t get a single bite, on either lake either day. Spent about 5 hours on each lake. Saturday was sunny, air temp in high 40s, water temp around 43. Sunday was cloudy, air temp around mid 50s water temp 41-43.
I still have no idea what I’m doing with the side imaging. Experimented with a lot of setting and a lot of time going back and forth over the same area with different settings trying to see a clearer picture.
This was the best image I got this weekend. It’s a bridge piling, and I’m assuming there are no fish on it? I kept playing with the settings trying to see a fish. But never saw what I was looking for.


Now the second picture is what really had me confused. I was cruising very slowly through a cove full of flooded timber, and never once did I see any of the trees show up on my screen. It was pretty much solid the whole time... I changed contrast, sharpness, sensitivity, and views and it never got any better. On my Garmin with DV I was seeing fish around the trees, but didn’t see the fish, or the trees on SI. And of course, the didn’t bite lol.


All in all it was good to just get out on the water, make sure everything was working, and while we were fishing the timber on yatesville we had an eagle circle us for about 10 minutes, so that was really cool. All in all a great way to spend a weekend, even if we didn’t find fish.




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