Dang stripers! Hope i spelled that right

[RoughriverRick]

Lately I have been scanning for fish with my new Garmin 93sv. I keep finding what I think are schools of crappie but I end up catching stripers, I about broke a nice trolling rod yesterday on a big one. How do you guys tell the difference, or can you?

[armyman]

Can't help about your scanning, but if you remove one of the P's you'll be good to go on your spelling!

[RoughriverRick]

Can't help about your scanning, but if you remove one of the P's you'll be good to go on your spelling!

Haha, I always get it backwards!

[catchNgrease]

River strippers now there's an idea.

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[M R Dux]

If you are running Side Scan, look at the bottom shadows. The fish will show up as a white dot or line but the shadows under the fish will give away the SIZE of the fish. IMO, after that, it's pretty much an educated guess as to species. I have a lot of clients ask what is that particular fish species on my Helix 12 Mega and honestly, I have no idea other than an educated guess.

[RoughriverRick]

If you are running Side Scan, look at the bottom shadows. The fish will show up as a white dot or line but the shadows under the fish will give away the SIZE of the fish. IMO, after that, it's pretty much an educated guess as to species. I have a lot of clients ask what is that particular fish species on my Helix 12 Mega and honestly, I have no idea other than an educated guess.

I thought maybe they school differently or something. I have read where people talked about christmas tree stacks of crappie. I have to admit it was fun catching a 3 pound strip on a 12' Jenko trolling rod.

[Ketchn]

stripes tend to be less concentrated and typically send bark larger marks . and most of the time they are not on heavy cover
I am with the educated guess crowd though

[M R Dux]

I thought maybe they school differently or something. I have read where people talked about christmas tree stacks of crappie. I have to admit it was fun catching a 3 pound strip on a 12' Jenko trolling rod.

I get excited when I’m longlining or pulling cranks and see a “Christmas tree” shaped school of fish on my electronics. In my experience that’s feeding crappie and I will put a waypoint on the Helix and circle back so I can go thru that school from several different directions.


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