Good and frustrating day yesterday

[Heiny57]

I saw you out there I think or at least that bright green kayak. We caught a few at 7 points suspended. Nothing was biting aggressively, in other words the bite was subtle and easy to miss. I guess the 45 degree water will do that.

We were marking fish suspended from 10 to 24 feet. We caught at 20. I do a lot of jigging and I am used to it, but it takes some getting used to. I catch 2 to one to my son's, and they will beat me in other methods.

As far as the graph goes, they are great but they can be frustrating. I have seen my HDI 7 lit up with bait and fish and could not catch squat. Yesterday when I left 7 points I went to a hump out in the open lake, marked no bait and no fish, while we were in this dead water looking for fish we hooked 2 15" Hybrids and a yellow and a white. Go figure. LOL

[jad2t]

You have to read up on how sonar works to understand why the "hooks" are formed by larger fish. I won't bore you with the details, you can google it for yourself if you'd like. Anyway, the hooks form while passing over the fish. If you're right over fish you'll just see long black lines. The higher black area is a bunch of smaller dots so thick it forms what almost looks like a false bottom. That would be the shad. Underneath it would be the predatory fish. Whether they were white bass, hybrids, rockfish, we'll never know because I never got one before the battery died haha.

I often see the hooks formed when I'm paddling fast and pass over fish but when I took that screenshot I was sitting almost still as there was no wind.

[jad2t]

Yep Heiny that was me, float over and say hi next time!

[TNtransplant08]

Came across this great article this week explaining the basics of reading and understanding sonar. Thought I'd share.

http://doctorsonar.com/pages/lowranc...by-luke-morris