Hit the water about 9 am. Scanned around the area and marked some brushpiles.

Found a road bed and brush pile near it (bottom right. I zoomed in and you can see the crappie on it. They are the white streaks. 15 or so its looks like.)



Headed to the bridge and side scanned it. Most were on the outside pylons in the AM and moved with the shade and only were within 2 pylons.

Bottom left you can see some pop corn looking stuff under the support beam on the pylon. Thats a school of crappie with a small school of shad to the right of them (which would be actually above them)



These fish were not hungry. 2 man limit right there if you count them......

Below is another part of the bridge. Again you can see the crappie under the support beams.




Dropped down a couple times where I saw the fish only to pull up dinks and baby blue cat fish. They were not biting so i decided to head up a creek. Took a long time to navigate up the creek but no crappie yet. Just some gar.

You can see the long white streaks...gar



Now this is the Honey Hole. Its a bend in a creek from last year that was pretty much a limit everyday plus some. You can see the crappie schooled up in the bend on the right. The white dots and small white streaks are the crappie. There are over a 100 crappie in just this bend alone.

A quick overview. Some people look at this and say "what are you talking about?"

Look at Side Imaging like this:

This is what the image looks like as you are looking at your unit:



Put the black on top by tilting your head to the right.

-Then it should look like this:



In the picture above, think of it this way, your 50 ft away from the bridge floating on the surface and you take a camera and go under water and take a pic of the bridge. The blackish lines paralleling the pylons are the sonar shadow.

Ill do it again with this bridge picture:

This is what you see while in the boat



Now Ill split the screens to make it readable. I distorted part of it to less confuse you.



Now it looks like you are on the bottom looking at the bridge in top and bottom pic.

bottom right is a zoom in.

gooduns

nice

Great pics Carey, good explanation.

Great pics....

Very Nice Job Carey - Thanks a bunch for taking the time to put this together.

awesome pics.

appreciate the explanations

Very informative Carey.

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Your welcome and thanks. Once I set up the program on the computer, the pics will look better. I just don't really need the program. Easier to take a pic in the garage with the lights out. I'll try and get pics of what I'm fishing more often with side scan and include them in the reports.

Thanks Carey, nice explanation!

Very informative. I couldn't figure out how those things worked until now.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one having trouble catching fish today. I caught 1 keeper and about 15 shorts. The barometer was 30.47 early morning and about 30.38 by noon. Was hoping it was going to be lower than that today.

Since the fish weren't biting, I decided to sink another BP. The day wasn't a total loss.

I'm glad I decided not to go up the creek west of Pilot Knoll Park. It would have taken forever to idle all the way up there for nothing.

That's good stuff! We appreciate the explanation.

thanks for the pics and explanation,will help in making my decision

Thanks Carey. Very informative!!!

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Thanks a bunch for taking the time to explain this. I usually just go back to the main page on posts like this since I don't understand SI at all, but glad I didn't this time. Thanks again Carey.

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Thank you. Keep them coming. I love to learn.

Good stuff. If you dont mind, what settings are you running on your unit? Looks like I need to tweak mine a bit, my images arent as clear.

Thanks for the info. I was wondering where you went, haven't seen any of your post in awhile. Have you fished on Lavon lately?

thanks a bunch. just moved a new sonar to the top of my christmas list.

Excellent Explaination of those images Carey.!! Nice Job