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I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this?

Posted By: Chris_K

I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:12 AM

Posted By: grout-scout

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:14 AM

I would guess its a brush pile.
Posted By: Chris_K

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:18 AM

Flat lines around it?
Posted By: Ride 211

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:19 AM

road bed
Posted By: MDM

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:21 AM


Hard paved surface surrounded by dirt/less dense material
Posted By: Ride 211

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:22 AM

Originally Posted By: MDM

Hard paved surface surrounded by dirt/less dense material


This....its a road
Posted By: Chris_K

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:44 AM

Are those fish to each side of it?
Posted By: grout-scout

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 03:12 AM

If that's a roadbed then it's very odd, I guess our roadbeds are different down here. I could see that being a bridge possibly I suppose.




Posted By: James Weir

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 03:14 AM

Originally Posted By: It's a giant!
Are those fish to each side of it?


They look like fish to me.
Posted By: Dr. Drop

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 03:21 AM


Big rock or chunk of concrete.
Sensitivity set just a little high.
Posted By: Lake Fork Guide Zach Hughes

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 03:26 AM

I was gonna say a very dense piece of brush such as cedar with concrete tied to it! I wouldn't say road because a road in 11 ft would have a gradual up slope the down slope! I have some brush that is packed tight and it shows like this.

Drag a jig across it and see what it feels like bud.
Posted By: lakewood

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 03:33 AM

Sensitivity

Posted By: David Burton

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 03:43 AM

Notice on top of it the separation of the coloration. I agree a Brush Pile. Possibly filled with shad/bait. The lines around it appear to be inactive suspended fish. A pile like that with a nothing bottom, I would fish a jig or T-Rig around and on top of it. If I saw more direct streaking (indicative of active feeding) I would be more aggressive. But you could get a reactionary strike in there. They way they are staged, I am assuming bass or catfish, but can't tell much on size. Then again, I am no expert... flame on!
Posted By: rxkid2001

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 04:11 AM

Nessie
Posted By: lamoon78

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 04:24 AM

Brushpile
Posted By: Okyakfishing

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 04:36 AM

If you have downscan try the split screen this will easily tell you if it's a brush pile or just a rock hump.
Posted By: BThomas

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 04:51 AM

Brushpile.
Posted By: Jarrett Latta

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 05:22 AM

Giant turtle...
Posted By: Chris_K

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 12:42 PM

Originally Posted By: Jaret Latta
Giant turtle...
roflmao
Posted By: Jpurdue

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 12:51 PM

There's a lot of money to be made if someone could write a definitive book on how to read what's on the screen of your electronics!
Posted By: bigfishtx

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 01:14 PM

Space Shuttle nosecone.
Posted By: FlippinMad

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 01:36 PM

Tell you what, only cuz I'm such a great guy, send me exact GPS coordinates and I'll run over it with the down scan and we can end the debate. banana
Posted By: ezbassin

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 01:47 PM

I would also say it is a brush pile with something hard on top of it.
Posted By: Lake Fork Guide Marc Mitchell

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 01:57 PM

I am going to go with road or maybe a spot where they had to build it up for a road and put in a culvert over a low spot.Could be where they removed a old bridge and pushed it to the side.

I have a spot on Fork where they took out a bridge and pushed it to the side and it kind of looks the same as your pic.On SI you can really tell it is concrete and can see most of the slab that was removed.

For what reason does anyone do this I cannot say but they seem to do it on all lakes especially the older ones. What ever is in the center is harder than brush IMO. Has to be concrete. IMO

After looking at it again the side seem to be softer than the middle. Could be a area pushed up by a dozer and it had some rock in it.
Posted By: CCTX

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:24 PM

Very hard return--concrete or metal. I'd guess a piece of bridge or sunken car.

Dark orange/reddish hardest return
Then yellow
Then cream colored
Then green colored
Then blue softest return

So, your 2D image shows a surface of an object with hard return signal in the middle (yellow) with a harder return (dark orange around the yellow) to a straight edge on two sides, with a soft blue return (algae/silt/vegetation/bait fish) sloping off the sides.

To get a better picture, you would need 455/800 kHz DI
Posted By: Outdoordude

Re: I suck at reading electronics, soooo what is this? - 03/04/15 02:46 PM

Originally Posted By: collincountytx
Very hard return--concrete or metal. I'd guess a piece of bridge or sunken car.

Dark orange/reddish hardest return
Then yellow
Then cream colored
Then green colored
Then blue softest return

So, your 2D image shows a surface of an object with hard return signal in the middle (yellow) with a harder return (dark orange around the yellow) to a straight edge on two sides, with a soft blue return (algae/silt/vegetation/bait fish) sloping off the sides.

To get a better picture, you would need 455/800 kHz DI


I agree, that's a big block of concrete or something of similar density. I often see the speckled black/white 45 degree image right next to a steep vertical drop of a solid surface. I don't recall ever seeing that for what I knew for a fact was a brush pile. The sloped side to the right may be a software-interpretation artifact, something that's not really there.
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