BLUEGILL CLOUD

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Comment by Slip Sinker on August 4, 2014 at 7:21pm

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER? a must read for every bluegill fisherman

http://www.wired2fish.com/master-fishing-for-bluegills-offshore/

Comment by Slip Sinker on August 4, 2014 at 9:02am

I'm not 100% sure until I drop a jig into the school and catch one

Comment by carl hendrix on August 3, 2014 at 9:58pm

looks like you have the identification of symbols of fish figured out Ken!!  how do you JUST KNOW (??)  what the fish are;;   when you see them on your finder??

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on August 3, 2014 at 1:01pm

That's very cool.
When our Lake Murray was flooded back in the 20's, several railroad trestles were inundated where they crossed the Saluda River channel. They still look the same on sonar scan.
That stuff is so cool.

Comment by Slip Sinker on August 3, 2014 at 12:27pm

and here is one of my favorites

looks like an old shed covered when the resevoir was created... the fish at this time were schools of 4-6 in perch... everytime i go past this waypoint ill drop a line... ive caught bluegill white bass crappie and small mouth from this location.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on August 3, 2014 at 11:49am

Great explanation!
Thanks Ken

Comment by Slip Sinker on August 3, 2014 at 11:38am

David

they only appear as lines and smears as you say is because i am anchored... think about it if a fish is under my boat motionless while i am anchored the screen scrolls from right to left constantly the fish appears as a solid line. move the boat the fish appears as an arch the fish is in and out of the sonar echo.

some examples below

fish are blobs or arches as shown

then

tightly schooled and solitary fishes

here is a down scan image of a school of larger fish working the minnows above them. boat is moving

here is a side by side comparison sonar left and down scan imaging DSI right of a school of fish moving thru the anchored boat position. fish will appear as a line as long the fish is in field of sonar and imaging

here is an interesting one....

many fish moving quickly off the bottom while boat is anchored.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on August 3, 2014 at 10:18am

I wouldn't have expected the red/orange smear to be fish.
I'm used to black&white LCD types, aka, cheap models.
They'd show fish more as individual echos, not this smeary affair.
Personally, I've preferred in the past the kind that shows fish as humps or horseshoe shaped responses.

Comment by Slip Sinker on August 3, 2014 at 9:57am

thanks David...

yes your basically correct on the left screen. the left side of this split screen shows my gps position over the topographical map i created for this private lake. the targets in this case are waypoints i created to mark positions of schools of fish.

on the right side i am anchored in 23.1 ft of water over a soft bottom shown in yellow. the digital readout in the upper lt corner shows me at 23.1 ft. the red orange and blue streaks from 11 ft to bottom are schools of fish which happened to be bluegill. i caught quite a few by dropping a jig dropped down to that level. if the jig is dropped within close proximity of the sonar transducer it will appear on screen just like ice fishing. a favorite technique learned from ice fishing is drop the jig down to the bottom. lift it up and past the school of fish and twitch the jig.

during late fall and winter these schools are deeper and tighter and move less.

whats really great about this is good fishing techniques are learned exponentially because you have known fish around you.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on August 3, 2014 at 7:04am

GREAT read, Ken.
Makes me want a boat, again.

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