Thread: High Rock 12-26

Thanks sundance. Might try to get up that way later this week.

Thanks for the report!

Great report. Glad there is some clear water.


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Made it out to Flat Swamp by 1:30pm today. Road around in the boat at least half the time just looking at the Helix. I saw lots of bait and some fish, I think. I don’t troll, but saw a few folks out there. Seemed pretty slow from what I could tell.

Water looked better than I expected. Almost “normal” - Brownie/Yoohoo colored. Abbott’s looked muddy coming over the bridge.

I did stumble onto a few right at dark in about 20ft near a dock.




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Nice fish. I've been aiming to put a card in my helix to do some captures but just don't seem to think about it till I'm on the water. I wish I had. Crappie are easy to see on the Helix. They're going to be larger than the little "dots" that make up a school of shad and not as tightly grouped together. I took a couple pics with my phone. Here is one of some crappie chasing shad in the side imaging.

I have the hardest time understanding what I’m seeing with these. I guess if I owned one it would be easier. I see the ribbon looking pattern which I assume is the school of shad???

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

I have the hardest time understanding what I’m seeing with these. I guess if I owned one it would be easier. I see the ribbon looking pattern which I assume is the school of shad???

The black area is the area below the boat where the side imaging doesn't reach the bottom. The dashes or little specs are crappie above the cut off of the signal. The "ribbon" is a school shad that are strung out in a line and partly cut off due to the fact they are deeper than the side imaging will scan. In this picture, most of the fish and shad are below the scanning of the side imaging. You can use Down imaging to see them or use your regular 2D sonar to pick them up. This pic does show there are crappie chasing shad in the fact the school of shad are strung out and broken apart in places. Wind or current can do the same thing to shad but there was no wind or current at the time.

the way I understand it is with side scanning is...

The sonar goes from the side of the boat in a cone shape with the smallest part of the cone at the boat and all the black you see is where the cone does not see the bottom .
All objects seen in the black are either fish or structure of some kind... Correct me if I am wrong because I like to learn