Sonar sticky -UPDATED W/ LINKS AND PICS

[Guest the_muddy_man]

You know I dont think Im gonna wipe it off I cant afford one of those 3D units and this kinda gives the same effect 8-)

[BD]

Triton, are you there?

[Triton_Mike]

BD Gots email???  mbucca AT comcast DOT net

Mike

[Bass Hammer]

Triton, are you there?

Quote Mike Iaconelli 2006

[BD]

BD Gots email??? mbucca AT comcast DOT net

Mike

I'll email you, thanks.

[BD]

Triton, are you there?

Quote Mike Iaconelli 2006

lol! ;D

[BD]

Power Point presentation can be grabbed here:

http://mighty-hero.panicnow.net/tritonmike.ppt

I am going to host this for about a month, then remove it, best to grab it regardless

Dial up need not apply.

Thanks again Mike and everyone who responded.

[Guest ouachitabassangler]

I've tried getting stuff like this going on several boards, but it's been like pulling hen's teeth to get any interest going. Is this the sort of thing you want?

Manual zoom to bottom view. 40 feet depth. Lake Ouachita.

I found the bass, belly in the mud 40 feet down, lockjawed due to high pressure from the front that passed through. So I passed on the usual pre-spawn lures and tied on a 3/4 oz spinnerbait and bumped it 5 feet off bottom after first bumping bottom. The zig zag line is the track of the spinnerbait right under the bow trolling motor transducer. I was slowly drifting with wind, so the bait stayed with me straight down. I saw the first bass rise up so got set. Then a second bass, both holding around the edge of a brush pile (blob on bottom between fish), rose to investigate. One of them took it out of sonar view, then I set the hook. 2.5# largemouth. I'm not sure what made the end buzz zig zag, maybe the change in direction. Anyway, I wanted to show ya'll about the sloped lines showing fish swimming while the boat is nearly still. Trolling speeds give fish arches. Higher speeds give slices. Also note I knew exactly how deep the spinnerbait was, and how fish related to its action. I tried other presentations, but the 5 foot rise/fall five feet off bottom around cover was best. I'm guessing the bass were buried up in the brush piles. Caught 7 bass from 1.7# to 2.9# doing that, but none of those episodes showed up well on the sonar log.

Jim

[Guest ouachitabassangler]

When going that slow, just drifting, any swimming fish will make the lines instead of arches. The lines track their movement within the 20 degree cones. Sitting still gets the lines. Spped up to 2 mph and get arches until about 8 mph, then you just get little fingernail clipping shaped images.

In the picture above you can see small red objects nearly on bottom next to the brush pile. Those are fish. I know the big object is a brush pile because it's one of a hundred I've set out, and I have all of them waypointed.

Jim

[5bass]

That's good stuff o.b.a.,I think thats more like what everyone is wanting to see.

[RoLo]

This is an actual printout from my stylus graph sounder.

The dark bar on top is the water's surface and the jagged dark band near the bottom is the lake bottom.

The faint horizontal series of blips located somewhat beneath the surface are forage fish about 7-ft down.

The two darker blobs among the baitfish (indicated by two arrows) are gamefish.

The bulk of the school of gamefish (as usual) were sulking near the bottom, far below.

In this case, the main school are the blips near the bottom, lofting upward to 12 ft above bottom.

The gamefish near the surface look larger, but only because they were closer to the transducer.

They were actually smaller more aggressive gamefish that rose to the occasion.

I know that in retrospect, as they were caught both near the surface and near the bottom.

Roger

[Guest ouachitabassangler]

Some of you might be wondering how to post a sonar view here. I use a Lowrance 332C and put a 256 meg SanDisc memory card in the card slot, then turn on Log Sonar. You get one minute of logging per megabyte of memory. You can use a gigabyte card for nearly 16 hours of sonar, but it's much easier to view and manage several smaller cards.  The filled card is then put in any MMC/SD card reader and opened using Lowrance's free downloadable SONAR VIEWER. I'm not sure Humminbird, Garmin, or other units log sonar or use the same file extension.  I'm a Lowrance user and have been for years. You can watch the session play out in real time and pause when something interesting comes up. I put the mouse over a target and write the GPS coordinates down (showing on screen) to make a waypoint later. You can save a view and make a JPEG or whatever extension file of it then post it in Photobucket then paste the image link here.

Jim

[BD]

Yes all please post more!!!

ALSO PLEASE REMEMBER TO GRAB MIKES P.P.....link is posted above.