Super User Catch and Grease Posted June 11, 2014 Super User Posted June 11, 2014 Im wondering how many people on here rely on electronics to find fish more than fishing visible structure, I fish out of a jonboat more than the bigger boat we have and it doesn't have electronics so I find myself pounding visible structure around the clock. The only time I'm fishing non-visible cover is when I go to spots I already have memorized in the lake I'm familiar with. Quote
Super User WRB Posted June 11, 2014 Super User Posted June 11, 2014 Use all your senses and tools available. Tom 1 Quote
Super User Catt Posted June 12, 2014 Super User Posted June 12, 2014 Carolina Rigs will help find structure & cover! As WRB mentioned I use every available source to gather information. Quote
Super User Wayne P. Posted June 12, 2014 Super User Posted June 12, 2014 I use my electronics to find fish and then I fish for them. Before I started using sonar, I used my fishing equipment to find the fish. I am a lot more efficient with catching using electronics. Quote
Kevin Beachy Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 Use all your senses and tools available. Tom I agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
Super User RoLo Posted June 12, 2014 Super User Posted June 12, 2014 Actually, a GPS contour map is a form of vision that allows the angler to scrutinize bottom contours long before he ever sees the lake. Sonar is another form of vision, one used in the field to confirm the accuracy of the GPS chart and to pinpoint coordinates. Our eyesight is needed to read the charts, read the sonar and to evaluate the cover, water clarity, shoreline topography and so on. GPS, sonar and eyesight are not versus, but work together in concert; I can't imagine being without any one of them. Roger Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted June 12, 2014 Global Moderator Posted June 12, 2014 I fished out of a 2 man for a lot of years and managed to find quite a bit of offshore structure with the help of a C-rig, heavy football jig, or deep diving crankbait. I wouldn't want to fish without a depthfinder with any regularity now that I have one, even a cheap one is better than none at all. 1 Quote
papajoe222 Posted June 12, 2014 Posted June 12, 2014 I don't use my depth finder to find fish, mainly because many of the lakes I fish are shallow. The transducer's cone angle isn't wide enough to reflect enough of the bottom. I use it to find structure and cover and rely on my limited knowledge to determine if either or both might be holding fish. There are times on my home waters that I rarely look at my electronics and other times when I have one eye glued to them looking for something I may have missed. I never fish a spot on a new body of water without checking out the area with my electronics, even if it's only to check the surrounding depth. Quote
Brian Needham Posted June 15, 2014 Posted June 15, 2014 If I am fishing ledges I am waiting "til I see em" to fish if I am fishing shallow then I am looking at a map and looking around at the area. Quote
BassResource.com Advertiser FD. Posted June 15, 2014 BassResource.com Advertiser Posted June 15, 2014 RoLo taught me how to read a map. So I know where to start looking. Wayne P taught me how to read my electronics. So I know what I'm looking at. Now most of my fishing is done offshore, away from anything visible. Quote
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