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What does this picture really mean?

slayer — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:27:47 +0000

I’ve seen some guys get all excited about nothing when it comes to what they’re seeing on their sonar screens. A recent image sent to me demonstrates this exact scenario. In the photo below, one might think there are hundreds if not thousands of fish under the boat on which this Lowrance was affixed. Take a look:

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Wednesday September 1st Trip w/Rick

slayer — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:40 +0000

Spent most of the day on the lake with Rick both Monday and Wednesday this week. I didn’t expect much but we did fairly good. We boated 27 fish Monday and 12 today. Monday the fish were aggressive when we found them but we only found them in a few locations. Trolling produced 4 fish including a “double” from the screen image below; the rest of the fish were jigged with a combination of jigs, spoons and swim baits. The good news is we capitalized when we did find them and the fishing was fast and furious. Today the fish were a lot easier to find but a lot harder to get to bite. For some reason we would only get one fish to bite and then the whole lot would go “cold”. I figured out if we changed lures after catching one you could induce another bite but still, it was a lot of effort for little reward and clearly the fish weren’t as aggressive.

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Fishing is AWESOME!!

slayer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:28:49 +0000

Since my last post, things have really turned “on” up at Lanier. The Striped Bass fishing has been off the charts! Rick and I scored over 20 fish last Thursday with the big fish of the trip tipping the scales just over 20 lbs. Friday I was out by myself and even though I didn’t mark a lot of fish, I was able to boat 9-10 via the troll and jig. The surface temps are still low considering we’re in the middle of August but the thermocline appears to be in place and the fish are following the summertime pattern for sure.