good thought process without a doubt sir
do you ever use hand held graphs on the docks ?
some of the folks I know do

That is going to be one of the first uses of the SI unit I'm about to buy, as soon as I get it installed.

I tried a time or 2 with a graph but the trees and brush about made it useless. Maybe we were doing it wrong? Unlike in a boat where you are moving and can sorta tell what your marking, in our slip it only shows a whole huge bunch of tree limbs.

Years ago, we fished the slips at Grapevine and in the heat of summer, we'd catch crappie and a few bass from just before sunrise to about 9 or 930 am, then they quit.

pretty much always it seems to me as well

i think it has to be moving to use side scan EZ
i may be wrong though ?

No but we watch Crappie under docks with aqua view cameras from time to time - FRUSTRATING!

using a ice fishing type graph that tell you when A fish enters the cone real time could be something that helps. They are calledflasher units. They give a 360 degree circle view of whats under the cone , on a screen.

I wish my 898 had the flasher screen for stationary fishing, as you can easily tell when a fish comes into the cone view, its depth, and its distance in relation to your jig. The real time sonar window can do the same thing but its much harder to read, because its not layed out in a 360 degree circle on the graph.

I intend to be moving. I am going to set it at 50' and slowly troll up and down the length of the dock to get a picture of what is under all the slips and which of them hold fish.

I will be scanning the fishing barge at the same time to see what is there.

I will do this each time I take the boat out so I will develop a pattern of when the dock holds fish and if it holds them at all times of the day.

leanin post, thanks for bring this up. Coincidentally, i just watched a tv show the other night that was about ice fishing flashers about some guy who apparently was a pioneer in that technology starting back in the early 70's. The technology has come a long way of course. My pea brain didn't put 2 and 2 together to figure out the difference in what you see on a flasher vs. a LCD graph. I wish i had kept some of the old flashers I had over the years, but the degrees of the transducer cones were probably way too big and i doubt if they sell replacements for those old units. I think I may look for a used one of the modern ice fishing specific ones and give it a try. I had got pretty proficient way back when at reading my old flasher on the boat when that was all I could afford at the time LOL.
Thanks for the suggestion and the links.

Well ..... lately I have been paying more attention to the lunar tables and it appears to me at this time
there is something to them.
I have been catching more larger fish during the major, and the minor periods.
Don't know why .. but can't argue much with success.

Do you have a problem with water clarity when you use the aqua view camera?

I was going to buy one but was told I would not be able to see much in these N. Texas lakes due to all the junk in the water.

By the way I haven't forgot about the report I promised you on how your attractor works for my wife with her Parkinson. It just that bad health struck both of us about the time I received it and she hasn't been able to fish for the last fourteen months. Hopefully we will be able to fish more a month or two from now and will be able to test it with her to see if does make the crappie hold on just a little bit longer than normal.

aint that the truth
we watched a herd of em watching us the other day
just because you can find em DONT mean ya can make em bite for sure