Thread: depth finder interpretations......

i havent contributed much to this thread yet, but hope to do so when we start hunting fish again. its interesting to see the different screens and the guys interpretation of whats on it.

I was out striper fishing and did not have my camera with me. Recorded this on a chip and then put it on my computer and took the picture. The depthfinder was set at 15 ft. upper and 50 ft. lower limits. I also did not let it run long enough since it didn’t fill up the screen. The purple line was my sinkers and bait and the rest were stripers. We had a ball

I havne't got a pic of this, but I saw it happen several times to me last year when striper fishing or catfishing. When fishing downlines for stripes or suspended cats alot of times the baits under your boat will look like a straight line with a squiggly line running through it. This is you sinker(straight line)and the shad(squiggly line). I've seen a school of fish (arches) below the biat and then seen a line shoot up to the bait like that and go back down. Then when you look over, you got a rod doubled over. it's like watching them bite it. I've also done this with jiggind spoons. You can see a spoon on there and watch it fo up and down as you jig it. When you mark fish, you just adjust the spoon to hang right in there face, shake it and bam, fish on. I'll try to get some pics. later!!

Originally Posted by crip47

I was out striper fishing and did not have my camera with me. Recorded this on a chip and then put it on my computer and took the picture. The depthfinder was set at 15 ft. upper and 50 ft. lower limits. I also did not let it run long enough since it didn’t fill up the screen. The purple line was my sinkers and bait and the rest were stripers. We had a ball

thats a great photo of schooling fish under your boat. If you running the lake and you suddenly see something like that pop up, get your baits in the water cause things is gonna be poppin

I have seen some of the same patterns at Norman when fishing vertical in front of Cowans Ford Dam. Cats and stripers suspended around 38 feet in 100 feet of water. It makes for exciting fishing at certain times of the year.

heres a photo i made of the lowrance last week down at wateree. the zig zag line near the bottom is my lead, where i was working the rod, for the sake of this photo, and the broken line just below the wavy line is my big shiner i had on. the solid black line just below the two lines is a fish, with several fish suspended above the baits.

That's cool Rango. Now I'm gonna have to play with mine to see if I got it set up anywhere like close enough to see that. Thanks for sharing.

At times I have the same trouble as Rango's pictures show. I can usally clear this up by setting the depth of the trolling motor down a little deeper. This work if your transducer is at the back of the boat. I beleive it is air bubbles off the trolling motor prop.