Thread: A few livescope pics

At 70 and 90ft away on the right side, you can see 2 schools coming towards me

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Originally Posted by brettw

Ok. Yall had your fun at my expense with my disaster trip yesterday. But for those interested here are a few livescope pics i took with my phone.
I'll add a few more here now and then.


Suspended crappie, my jigs are right in them, no bites

Giant brush pile, 35ft across

More crappie schools 25-30 ft deep

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I've been having a hard time telling crappie schools and gizzard shad schools apart on mine. I can easily tell what is stripers and perch are pretty distinctive if they are balled up on the botom or even in singles. I can also easily recognize schools of threadfins. But I keep seeing these suspended groups of fish that appear to be crappie size and I will fish them and never get bit. Probably my fishing skills but I'm starting to think that some of them are groups of gizzards. I have been around some large gizzard schools and seen them flicking on the surface and they pretty much look like what I'm seeing. If the crappie are hanging on brush it's very obvious what they are but when they are spread out in open water, I become much less sure.

It's shad for sure.

Brett, that's good pictures you got. You just got to get more practice at it. Thank you for showing us what we are missing. My little HDS 7 long time over due for replacement shows fish but no where as good as the LS. Keep up the good work and show us more pictures. We all are learning with you.

Originally Posted by 91tiger

I've been having a hard time telling crappie schools and gizzard shad schools apart on mine. I can easily tell what is stripers and perch are pretty distinctive if they are balled up on the botom or even in singles. I can also easily recognize schools of threadfins. But I keep seeing these suspended groups of fish that appear to be crappie size and I will fish them and never get bit. Probably my fishing skills but I'm starting to think that some of them are groups of gizzards. I have been around some large gizzard schools and seen them flicking on the surface and they pretty much look like what I'm seeing. If the crappie are hanging on brush it's very obvious what they are but when they are spread out in open water, I become much less sure.

They may very well be gizzard shad.
I did jig over a stack and got 1 10" crappie so that was some confirmation

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Originally Posted by trypman1

It's shad for sure.

Maybe that's why they wouldn't bite ANYTHING!

How can you tell?

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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