I went back to seven points but this time with no intentions of bass fishing. All I do is bass fish and though I have fun, it's time to learn some new stuff. I'm really after Hybrids or Rockfish lately and felt like yesterday I was so close, then my battery crapped out so I had no depthfinder
. I had only used it for about 3.5 hours after fully charging it, obviously a defective battery. I contacted Cabelas and they're out of stock, of course, so who knows when they can do an exchange for me. I bought a battery/charger combo from them.
Anyway, the method I am using is jigging spoons in deep water. I tried it a bit here and there, it wouldn't work and I'd go back to bass fishing. I decided to stick with it today and did manage about a 13-14" bass in roughly 25' of water. That was my first fish ever using that method and out of that deep of water so I felt accomplished already...though I really wanted that fish to have stripes. I moved out to almost 50 feet and found schools of them everywhere a few feet off the bottom. Same method, I did have two hits that I missed. I guess I need to do a better job at detecting a strike before the fish detects me. Never had any strikes with this method prior to yesterday. I can't say for sure, but I'd guess in 50 feet of water those weren't largemouth. Then the battery crapped out and I went home pissed off.
Got a pic of the graph to show what I was seeing and also a nice pic of where I "parked" the yak to sit and eat lunch. I guess I need to find a battery and charger soon. I feel like I'm close to figuring out these fish...