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Originally Posted by hotwielen65
I ordered the HB 899 yesterday and have to tell you all your shots from your outings has convinced me I need to move up from the 597. SI is huge in finding the fish and structure. A buddy of mine and I are going to fish some different lakes (Granada being one of them) and SI will be huge in finding fish. May have to get you in the boat with me to show me some of the tricks. Could come down there to go on Woods or Normandy.
Another part of the report that I can agree on is where are the fish this year. My crappie count is way down this year. I've been experimenting with trolling and spider rigging but that aside when I get out shooting docks or fishing the deeper brush I'm coming up empty in a big way. I've had more outings with zero fish caught, looking back at my notes if I didn't catch keepers I did at least catch a few shorts. Some of the other guys that fish OH have said the same thing, even spring was down. JJP on the other hand has been strong this year for crappie and it seems like the size of the fish has been larger also. I know OH and JJP get a lot of fish removed every year due to the large population around the lakes, I wonder if going to 12" size or 20 fish limit would help improve the over all population. Granada and Stargis both have a limit of 20 fish and 12" size and they are premier crappie fisheries that have seemed to keep good numbers even with the pressure and fish removed. It would be nice to catch 3 pounders and not have to drive 5 hours. Heck you would have more meat on the talbe with 20-12" plus fish than with 30-10" fish. Don't know if the rest of the fishing community would feel the same....
Happy fishing to all,
Ray
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Ray can you imagine using an si unit down at Nickajack? It will put you on more fish no doubt about it. Be happy to go out with you sometime....though I am no expert on these units. One thing about their new si units...you get it messed up and set all settings back to default and it is already pretty close to being dialed in. I read an interesting read last night about using fish ID symbols on the 2d sonar. A lot of folks think that "real fisherman" don't use fish ID. Here is the link to what this guy had to say about it on the 2d. I have read a lot about Humminbirds algorithm used for fish ID and it is supposed to be pretty good. These units stop one from wasting fishing time on water that doesn't hold any fish. I am within 2 years of buying a boat again. It will have a side imaging unit and one of the GPS trolling motors.....preferably and IPilot but will look at others that are out at the time. The new electronics are really game changers.
Regards
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