Thread: A few livescope pics

Originally Posted by Inkdabber

Just hang in there and keep those wallets open. Im sure they’ll make a sonar that will name what kind of fish your looking at, which ones are hungry, and what they got a hankering for. lol

Hahahah Ain't that the truth!

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I went to Murray yesterday jigging for stripers. I finally was able to see exactly what an open water school of crappie looks like on my live scope. Out in 45 feet of water I saw a tight school of smaller fish only 10 feet down about 50 feet out in front of me. I cast the jigging spoon, letting it sink 3 seconds before sweeping it back and am nailed by a really big crappie. About a half hour later about a mile away, I see the same thing again on live scope and fire the jigging spoon into them and catch an even bigger one. Even with my forward range set out at 70 feet, they were very distictively round. They also produced a very strong return. I keep my color pallet on the blue, which I like best for open water and they showed up very vividly red with yellow outlines. I was very surprised at how fast they were moving. The jigging spoon worked well because it would have taken a traditional 1/16oz crappie jig too long to sink into them before they would have been gone from the spot I cast. It makes me want to rig up a 3/16 oz jig head with a light wire hook with a curly tail crappie grub so I can bomb that into them when I see that again.

Originally Posted by 91tiger

I went to Murray yesterday jigging for stripers. I finally was able to see exactly what an open water school of crappie looks like on my live scope. Out in 45 feet of water I saw a tight school of smaller fish only 10 feet down about 50 feet out in front of me. I cast the jigging spoon, letting it sink 3 seconds before sweeping it back and am nailed by a really big crappie. About a half hour later about a mile away, I see the same thing again on live scope and fire the jigging spoon into them and catch an even bigger one. Even with my forward range set out at 70 feet, they were very distictively round. They also produced a very strong return. I keep my color pallet on the blue, which I like best for open water and they showed up very vividly red with yellow outlines. I was very surprised at how fast they were moving. The jigging spoon worked well because it would have taken a traditional 1/16oz crappie jig too long to sink into them before they would have been gone from the spot I cast. It makes me want to rig up a 3/16 oz jig head with a light wire hook with a curly tail crappie grub so I can bomb that into them when I see that again.

Funny you said about heavy jig. I saw video by 3Pound Crappie. He said the same thing. He liked to use a heavier jig casting in shallower water even with his fan casting into schooling in open water. He saw his livescope he could not get closer than 30 feet without spoiling them. The heavier jig would get to them quicker because of there movement.

Originally Posted by CrappieKidd

Funny you said about heavy jig. I saw video by 3Pound Crappie. He said the same thing. He liked to use a heavier jig casting in shallower water even with his fan casting into schooling in open water. He saw his livescope he could not get closer than 30 feet without spoiling them. The heavier jig would get to them quicker because of there movement.

Exactly, I noticed when the boat got within about 15 feet, the school would dive down deeper and accelerate under the boat and be impossible to get back on them. I'm going to see if there is a tungsten jig head with a small enough hook to allow the heavier weight but with a smaller profile to be able to get down to the school and stay down on the retrieve.

So you guys are chasing fish and the other guys on YouTube video's are sitting still and catching fish. What is the purpose of chasing them if you wanting to be catching fish? Just trying to make since of what you are doing. I understand trying to find schools of stripers but I don't understand trying to sneak up on crappies. Why waste the time to do the chasing part?