Thread: Crappie in Side Image

AWESOME shot Bean! Makes me wanna do a lil jig right in that tree!

I have a question, what is that behind the stumps and on the right side? More crappie or bait fish? Thanks

Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie

I have a question, what is that behind the stumps and on the right side? More crappie or bait fish? Thanks

More crappie they where so thick down there that the right SI beam caught them as well but just barely. That is why they did not show up well in the DI but real good on 2D because I was in 200/83 on the 2D settings. Good eye most would have missed that.

White spots were crappie, and you can see the beds to the left that has crappie in them. Out from the Fuel pumps at Aqua Yacht.

Pete

I agree tcounty. I have had my 598SI for over a year and if I saw this on my hummingbird SI, I would have passed right by it and called it trash, humps, or nothing. Thank you LowePro for posting this. I just need to be a little more patient the next time I go out side imaging a lake.

Originally Posted by tcounty

That's fish? I would have just thought it was trash or unit set wrong.

Originally Posted by Bean2302

This is what I have you can see the crappie right in the tree stumps. Shots taken on HB 999

It is easy to spot crappies running "over" them with SI, down imaging, or 2D but after seeing LowePro's screen shot above, I think those clouds to the left of Bean2302's screen shot are crappies too.

Here is best I have of what I have of crappie on bed......literally hundreds of crappie. They were only few feet off of a dam. Pic would be better but I was in a kayak...stopped....marker out, catching fish...LOL.


Regards

It took me a while to see what crappie ACTUALLY look like in side and down imaging. I used to look for perfect arches (like you see in advertisements) the truth is.... I have NEVER had any good luck with the perfect arches. Once I saw fish on my graph and actually loaded the boat with crappie things started sinking in. Suprisingly ever since I learned what crappie actually look like they are so easy to pik out. Now I can spot em a mile away! Well........a hundred feet anyways hahahaha.