Another Livescope ??

[GREENFISH]

Some fantastic responses fellas! I appreciate y’all sharing your experiences. Didn’t expect the “sinker bite.” That’s especially interesting.



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[Barnacle Bill]

I've always heard that a crappie will go up to bite a bait but rarely down. Can any of you livescope users give any credence to this?

[MikeF]

I've always heard that a crappie will go up to bite a bait but rarely down. Can any of you livescope users give any credence to this?

They do both, but we found the bites/hookups are better up than down.

This past season we used LS to judge the attitude of the fish on structures.

If we could pull them up off and away from the structure to follow a bait at least 1-2 foot, we deemed them active enough to stay.

If not, we would move on to another spot and came back to them later that day and checked again if they were ready to play.

That system really cut down on the amount time just fishing and increased the amount of time catching.

[Pac in Arkansas]

I see them swim down for the bait about 20% of the time. I have seen them follow the bait up a long ways as you slowly (as in snail's pace) reel in a whole lot more. When I have a fish that is following the bait up but refuses to bite I drop the bait for a reaction strike. So far I have not caught a single crappie trying this but when the bait is almost back to the surface with a follower you have to try something. But that is a great tool to learn what the fish will and will not usually do. Even a failure to bite can be a learning situation. The trick is knowing what is going on in the first place. I don't see how that would happen without livescope.