Great pics Carey, good explanantion.

appreciate the explanations

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.

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

appreciate the explanations

I need 3 ft of water to dump on us, to get on Lavon. Its 12 ft low and the only ramp there is terrible and not safe. I have been out of town for 2 weeks and some of it was in Colorodo. Found some trout in a creek that runs right through the Town of Boulder. Right in the middle of town I was catching wild Brown Trout. They were like Blue Gills in a small creek, everywhere. Very pretty but small fish.



But im back. And I do guide for, everything pretty much, lol.... So, I also post in Fly Fishing, Bass, Striper, Carp, ect... I was fishing a lot of bass tourny for awhile there. About a month str8. Fun stuff. Won 80% of them and placed top 3 in the others. Only 2 of them I got beat BAD. Got some 7 lbers, 8's and 9's just out of Hubbard alone. Hubbard has some great Large Mouth in it. TPWD stock 500,000 again this year, Florida strain..... I could go on and on with stories. But, thats where I have been.

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Hit the lake yesterday (Lewisville) and it was pretty good. Lots of dinks but a consistant bite. Marcus left with some good fish yesterday. Forgot the ending pic.



Heres a new pic for todays report.



So where are the Sandbass in the pic? Look very close from top to bottom.

There are none, HA. They are on a hump somewhere main lake. The specs are Crappie under the support beam!



They were biting very odd today. Had Mr. Mart meet me at my house today. Got to the lake about 1030 am and left at 4pm. the crappie were being very odd today. Just sucking it in very very very lightly and holding not moving. A lot of times. The big Black Crappie would hit it and start swimming off to one side or the other but not diving or rising. They had a magic depth they were going to stay in. After the second Crappie, we had a pattern. Never changed all day. We actually left them biting so we wouldnt get stuck in traffic.



75% Black Crappie
25% White Crappie

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More side scan-

What you see live on the screen. Again, tilt your head to the left.



All kinds of neat stuff in this. So, I'll tilt your computer for you again. So what do you see?



Now heres what you see:




As you can see, if you are not fishing on top of these guys, you prob wont catch one. Now, side scan doesnt see every fish. Just cause i pass the bridge once, does not mean there are no fish if you dont see them. Scan it from another side too. I usually scan every side of the structure I am fishing. They might be hiding on the other side! Today was all about the shade and current. The wind picked up and the crappie were hiding at the end of the day and only in one peticular depth range and spot on the bridge. Then it was 3 keepers every ten mins or less. And its going to get cold! Here comes a cold front. Fishing is getting hotter and hotter!

Time for class again. I pulled the pics off my unit today that would make sence.

Tire reef at Lake Lavon, near the Power House. On the right image, side scan, you can see white slashes over the tires. Those were sandies and a few crappie.



These are Hybrid Striper at Ray Hubbard. They were feeding on shad and pushing them up on the shallow flat. Most of the fish are on the left side of the boat. White dashes are them. Limited in less than 20 mins that day.



One of my favorite brush piles. Made them in a line on a creek channels ridge. Only thing that makes scaning difficult, is, when there are millions of shad up and down the water colum. Makes it hard to see the crappie "popcorn" looking images on side scan with all the freakin shad around. Plus with this many shad in the image, its tough to trick a crappie to eat plastic when hes got shad everywhere.



In this pic, I scanned a line of trees with some brush below them. The trees are tall, note how long the sonar shadows are. They are actually sticking out of the water a ft during this scan. One tree had brush almost to the top of the water and the crappie were sitting about 7 ft down. Look close. All the small specs are the targeted fish. Tured out to be little 6-9 inchers.



I love to find stuff like the pic below. Cruising through a creek channel and BAM, theres a brush pile with crappie on it. Note the white specs near the cursor.



Road Bed I went over. Not any fish worth casting at.



Slabbing for sandies. In this pic the sand bass are swimming under the boat. Im just drifting.



This is a pretty neat pic. Its Collin Park Marina. You can see when they moved the whole marina to deeper water. Scrapes on the bottom from the poles and dragging stuff.



This is what it looks like when you hit a stump. I immediatly mark it.



Brush Pile on the right.

Hey buddy, put together a siminar and come give us
a good one at the club sometime. We will welcome you.
Contact one of the board members for it.
http://www.crappieanglersoftexas.com/

Carollton Library.

Carey, you really need to get published. I know a good writer who writes articles for Poker Magazines and travel magazines. Perhaps you should consider having someone write about your posts and make a little side cash. I've been reading fishing artilcles my whole life and your information is not only more detailed, but you do a better job of explaining it. Kudos!

thanks for the info. For you guys wanting more info, I recently got Ernest Patty's Electronics 101 and it was very informative as well. Definitley worth the $20. It talks about all types of sonar, with great explanations and examples of side scan interpretation. www.catchcrappie.com

thanks, for the instructions, that helped more than the book did. so, to see side imaging, i must turn the picture sideways?