When I'm looking for fish, I expect them to jump in the boat as soon as it slides off the trailer lol... Really though, I always expect to see a few at most places I stop. Side scan helps, especially in very shallow water. There were a few times this Feb and March that I went to my usual spots and looked for fish. This was in 30 ft water, and the graph was basically barren of fish. We stopped anyway and as I was putting the trolling motor down my kid already had a fish on a slab. We fished about 2-3 minutes and wham, both of us at the same time hooked up. This went on for over an hour and we caught over 90 fish spot locked right there. Some times they would die off and then in a few minutes here we go again. During all this, the graph would have fish all over it at times using the 83 kHz 2-d, and other times it was empty, no thumping those days either. I learned a few years ago when looking for whites, you may not see arches when they are near bottom, it may look like a blob of rocks. I get aggravated when I locate a big school, and you cant get a bite for nothing. I always tell myself it was probably gar since I cant really distinguish fish types that well on the graph.

Sounds like we need to take your boat then