Thread: depth finder interpretations......

if you have any photos of your depth finder screen showing whats down below and your interpretation of whats being shown, post em. this should help those of you who are not all that familair with what you are seeing down below to understand what you are seeing. any tips on operating finders that may help others, feel free to post em. hopefully it will help others gain more knowledge of those magical instruments that have become a big part of our fishing. i plan on keeping my camera handy and when i see something interesting ill try to get a photo. if you are using flash, dont fire directly into the screen. this will cause a glare. shoot at a little bit of an angle which will cause the flash light to bounce away from the camera lens.

Rango I will post some pics from my sonar memory card just as soon as I find my usb cable. I went fri night and sat night, and I marked one pretty site. Bait above a school of stripers in 24ft up to a hump which was 10 ft. I have one for ya. I have noticed when striper are on the bottom they will not bite! (WATEREE LAKE) Some others say the same thing. One of my good friends told me this months ago and I tried to fish them, and he was right. I cannot get them to bite. Alot of people were at the big rock down at cedar creek,I fished it for a hour with 3 takers. Jet ski,s everywhere Sometime I think they love just makeing anglers mad.

Way to go Rango, There's something for all of us to learn from them. I'll have to keep the camera in the boat. Just have to remember to use the (stop screen) so we have time to get the picture...

Took this one while anchored on a nitestalk last nite. A little surface clutter mixed with baitfish anywhere from the top to about 8' deep with bigger fish underneath. Horizontal line?!? I am guessing a fish moving from deep to the bait. More horizontal lines last night than normal (usually dont see much of them).

Here's one more while anchored last night. Looks like bait fish from 2'-10' deep with larger fish from 10'-15' deep. A few more horizontal lines....

Originally Posted by gabowman

Here's one more while anchored last night. Looks like bait fish from 2'-10' deep with larger fish from 10'-15' deep. A few more horizontal lines....

Maybe the anchor rope??

I'm guessing the lines are fish going to the bait. The anchor rope doesnt go straight down. Had 100' of rope out on chene anchors, transducer on the other side of the motor from the back anchor. I fished the front of the boat on 4 rod holders, all tight lines 10-12' deep and one rod casting out in front of me fishing a float at
3' deep. If you notice the two different pics one line comes all the way up to the bait and in the other pic it went out from under the transducer cone at 10' or so, with another fading way before it got near the top.

Anybody else got any pics they can post to show us more? Be sure to carry your cameras along to get a couple on the next trip. I'll do the same. They aint gotta be pics of a night stalk.....a moving boat will help us out alots too.

Originally Posted by gabowman

Here's one more while anchored last night. Looks like bait fish from 2'-10' deep with larger fish from 10'-15' deep. A few more horizontal lines....

this past saturday at wateree i had one or two of those lines appear, and dissapear with the same angle, so i figured it was fish coming up and feeding on the bait above em.

I'm with stump hunter, I think the fish at 14 and 15ft are trees, the fish id have them labeled as fish, looks like a few stumps to the right of the trees with maybe a fish or two close to bottom. turn off fish id first, then if you see something attached to the bottom, it's cover, baitfish will look like a cloud, if the cloud looks like a tight ball there is more than likely predator fish pushing them together, the single arcs you see are predator fish.

Straight line is a bubble commin to the surface.... if it was a fish he would have probably landed in your lap...lol!