So I take out my iBobber...

[Koz]

My 12 year old son and I were out fishing today at one of our usual haunts and nothing was biting. This spot has been pretty consistent bank fishing spot for 2-5 pound largemouth and 1-2 pound crappies so it was a bit disappointing and frustrating. My son got bored and stopped fishing so I gave him my phone and told him to dig into my tackle bag and set up the iBobber to see if anything shows up on the sonar.

 

In the fish finder mode the iBobber shows red markers for fish under 18" and green markers for fish over 18" and it provides a readout of the depth of the fish. So my son casts the iBobber out and then starts calling out, "Red - 4 feet. Green - 6 feet. Green - 9 feet..." At the same time I am beginning to see some fish feeding on the surface out towards the middle of the lagoon where my casts won't reach. All I'm thinking is,  "Why aren't all of these fish hitting anything?" I'm fishing slow, fast, medium, topwaters, spinners, buzzbaits, Senkos, crankbaits, and not one nibble.

 

Then he calls out, "Green - 24 feet" and I'm thinking to myself that can't be right. Unless some sinkhole opened up under the water it's not that deep anywhere in the lagoon. So I ask him, "Is that in demo mode?" and his response is, "No, but it does say 'demo' at the top of the screen." AARRRGH!

 

As it turns out, the iBobber wasn't charged so the app defaulted to demo mode. I was cracking up because here I am thinking there's all these good sized fish around and I can't even manage one bite no matter what I throw!

 

We packed it up a few minutes later and called it a day. The morning may not have produced any fish, but at least it produced a good story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Oregon Native]

It did at that.....

[J Francho]

I used to put the console graph in demo mode for my non boaters

[islandbass]

Great story! Thanks for sharing. 

[Ratherbfishing]

Too funny!  I have a friend who also admits to operating for hours with his fish finder in "demo" mode.  He did think it odd that the depth, bottom structure, etc. was changing a lot  despite his not having moved much.