Floating dock question....

[Opie1]

Lots of contour maps and even this structure map online. This is very useful and provided by the SC DNR. I would pop these coordinates into your fishfinder/gps and do some dropshotting or slip bobber fishing on top of them depending on the depth.


SCDNR - Fish Attractor Maps

Lakes and Waterways

[catchNgrease]

I vividly remember the day I learned the difference a d importance between structure and contour. I had spent several hours breaking off relying and loosing wrapped up fish. I backed off a little to let em calm down and to re tye. After tying I cast my jig out to the side of the structure to get the slack out of my reel and a fish inhaled it. They were sitting on the particular contour I was fishing and the structure that was so irritating had almost nothing to do with it.

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[Brag]

Lots of contour maps and even this structure map online. This is very useful and provided by the SC DNR. I would pop these coordinates into your fishfinder/gps and do some dropshotting or slip bobber fishing on top of them depending on the depth.


SCDNR - Fish Attractor Maps

Lakes and Waterways

I have a decent contour map. I've tried to find several of those structures and most I haven't found, the couple that I have found were not terribly impressive when I checked them out, but I'll continue looking for them and fishing over them when I find them.

[catchNgrease]

Do you have access to Active c
Captain..

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[Brag]

Do you have access to Active c
Captain..

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I don't really know what it is and I don't have a subscription if that's required.

For what it's worth, I did just spend 20-30 mintutes tweaking my sonar unit and hopefully I'll see some improvements. I changed some data blocks on the screen, changed frequencies, changed color palletes, etc. etc. in an attempt to make it more sensitive and easier to interpret for me. I hope to get out on the lake tomorrow and I'll get a pretty good idea whether the changes were all beneficial or not.

(Edit: I did just install the free Activecaptain app on my phone, but as I said before, I'm not much into tech stuff and don't know whether I'll learn to use it and whether it will be beneficial to me. Maybe I'll see if I can find some videos or other tutorials and try to teach an old dog some new tricks).

[Foxy Jig]

start building and sinking your own brush to fish

and yes, crappie will congregate on floating docks..have caught many on them

that's a clear water lake so fish may be a little deeper than you're used to

[Brag]

start building and sinking your own brush to fish

and yes, crappie will congregate on floating docks..have caught many on them

that's a clear water lake so fish may be a little deeper than you're used to

This is my goal. Unfortunately, I'm at my "winter home" and I don't really have a good shop, many tools, etc. so it won't be as easy as it might be if I were at home with my shop and plenty of room.

[Brag]

I got to the lake yesterday and really tried to work the docks some with sidescan but was horribly disappointed in the functioning of my unit. I posted a thread/question in the sidescan sub-forum if anyone is pretty good troubleshooting these things.

Only caught one Crappie on a muddy, fairly shallow flat. That said, I don't know that anyone was catching them yesterday. I did briefly talk to a guy that was flatlining and he hadn't taken any.