Posted By: leanin post
now u see em now u dont - 02/13/23 06:28 PM
we were searching some timber lines for singles and double crappie post cold front and the crappie were super spooky. several times we would find and set up on a fish, and they would just vanish from the screen.
Has anyone else experienced this?
what I think is happening is that if the fish turns and swims directly away from the sonar beam, you cannot see it swimming away sometimes because the profile of the fish becomes very narrow, like a stick. couple this with a 20 degree beam, and a short forward range I think unless the fish turns left or right you wont see them.
learning all of the intricacies of livescope technology is fascinating.
something else ive noticed is that when the crappie are oriented in a vertical or diagonal position in the water column, they are in an active feeding mode. They are hovering in place, looking up and waiting for baitfish to swim over them to attack. Crappie that are near the bottom close to cover or structure (that are not moving around much) tend to be in a resting, digesting, or sleeping mode and must be kind of woken up and persuaded to bite.
Has anyone else experienced this?
what I think is happening is that if the fish turns and swims directly away from the sonar beam, you cannot see it swimming away sometimes because the profile of the fish becomes very narrow, like a stick. couple this with a 20 degree beam, and a short forward range I think unless the fish turns left or right you wont see them.
learning all of the intricacies of livescope technology is fascinating.
something else ive noticed is that when the crappie are oriented in a vertical or diagonal position in the water column, they are in an active feeding mode. They are hovering in place, looking up and waiting for baitfish to swim over them to attack. Crappie that are near the bottom close to cover or structure (that are not moving around much) tend to be in a resting, digesting, or sleeping mode and must be kind of woken up and persuaded to bite.