Thread: Found a bed today..

Congrats on your catch some beautiful fish.
LittleJohn

Looks like filleting sized fish. Nice ones for sure. Congrats.

taco time!

I filleted the biggest redear, blackened it, and had some sourdough toast and watermelon on the side. Fantastic lunch!

Beautiful fish.

Regards


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Now that is a fun trip right there! Congrats!

Here are three screenshots I took on my Garmin 93sv UHD of the bed while catching those fish. The bed is one I found previously. As SK says "do your homework", which for me meant riding the entire shoreline of the lake in 8 to 10 feet of water, with side scan on, and setting waypoints on every bed I found. Until recently, these beds had no fish when I checked them. Water hit 75F last week finally, and they started moving in. This is the first bed I checked, and I went no further that evening. It is hard to leave biting fish of this quality.

All shots were taken basically sitting still (notice the MPH is zero in all of them), but two were taken by turning the trolling motor with the tiller in a slow arc. This works well when the wind is turning you around on anchor, so you can confirm the bed position before you cast. I never use marker buoys as this is a heavily pressured public lake, even more so with the C19 Wuhan China virus disruption. I don't want other anglers to know what I am doing, really. Most are beating the banks for green carp. PS Livescope is not very useful for finding beds with bream on them, IMO. I have not fooled with Perspective mode much, from what others have posted, the range is short. Side imaging actually works better IMO. I don't have the PLS on the kayak. Now that I know where these beds are, I will revisit with the Livescope in the Perspective mode on. (I have to move it from the other boat).

In this shot, the boat is anchored with the bed on the right side, and has been sitting still, so the beds are "smeared" into streaks, except at the very top. The fish are moving, and you can clearly see fish right on the bottom, at @28 and 35 feet range, with the shadow indicating the fish are down near the bottom.


In this shot, the beds are on the left, and I swung the tiller in a slow arc to sweep the beam across the area. I do this to confirm where exactly to cast, right before I cast.


Another sweep shot clearly showing fish on the beds. This was around noon the day before, and they would not bite ANYTHING. I told them "ahl be back" in my best Terminator voice.


So if you have a way to manually turn your transducer, i.e. on the trolling motor, you can "sweep" an area for beds/fish by turning the motor in a slow smooth arc. Try it.

I haven’t found any beds holding this year. I could stand some like you posted, very nice fish.