Interesting observation. Looking back at our lake only 1 DD has been caught out of a boat using electronics.. The rest of the DD we have caught have been fishing from the bank.

will never forget how I have seen either trolling motors or graphs turn a good bite completely off when I was on fish, in kayak... then back to biting a few minutes after boaters were 100 yards away... had it happen three times in the same spot... another time I was walking on high bank in camping area at monti, , looking at several spawning bass in the 3 to 4 lb range up against the cattails..they slowly swim into deeper water as boater on trolling motor approaches. They reacted to the boat from more than 60 yards away.. watched them come right to their spots after the boater was 100 yards away.

100% they are becoming accustomed to the ping from the sonar beam.

I fished with Dalton Smith, FFS guru at Ivie a few months ago and he told me 2 yrs ago he was catching fish 20' from the TM but now you have to get them to bite 60-80' away

Ken or maybe one of you others can answer this. Does FFS and regular sonar send out different "pings" or are they virtually the same?

They are completely different. FFS ping rate is 20-30 times per second. Traditional sonar is 1-10 times per second. Frequency is different as well. Traditional sonar uses much lower frequencies. The only real tradeoff is range. Traditional sonars have about 10X the range.

Thanks. That makes since as to why fish become so sensitive and learey of FFS

High Percentage fishing is on my side table, I like to check it out for sure. I need to order lunker lore.

My father-in-law pointed this very thing out about 20 years ago when lowrance was coming out with the HDS models. We were graphing less and less deepwater jigging spoon fish and his theory was that the fish were feeling the stronger ticking from the transducers.

Good info. With the way my fishing not catching has been lately maybe ill just turn everything off. Had a partner many years ago that wouldn't even let me turn on my flasher. And god forbid if I made noise with the TM.

We fished Round Table from daylight to dark and had the whole lake to ourselves. My opinion is, if you’re going after BIG fish avoid Round Table. We probably caught over 200 bass that day but only a handful over two pounds and the single largest around 6. Don’t get me wrong, we had a blast but we went for a chance to catch giants not numbers. I’m sure there are giants in that lake but the results indicated that smaller size class fish were most definitely more common. My only complaint was the cost, but I knew the cost going in. Just expected more, bigger fish that what we found. Those bass have a beautiful blue, orange hue to them and have NO quit in them. If you go without expectations and enjoy the fishing, you will have a wonderful time.