Screenshots from Drake's Creek today. Help?

[XxthejuicexX]

Originally Posted by JDH8504

I wonder if that's available for the Lowrance maps. Or maybe I should buy Navionics...

I don't know about the lowrance maps. The navionics map is simple to adjust.


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[agelesssone]

Originally Posted by JKTrevecca

Those contour/depth lines on the chart aren't reliable in my experience. They give you an idea of the rise/fall/countour but depth accuracy is a whole different story. Especially on JPP. Rely on your sonar for depth accuracy. Using the chart will get you in the repair shop asking for a new skeg or lower unit

Believe what JK is telling you here. There are many spots on JPP where your Navionics map will say you are in 20 ft of water when in reality you are in five ft or less....and this is at summer pool. If JPP is in full winter pool, the map will be off by a minimum of 7 ft!
They start pulling the lake down in November and start raising it back up in April, but the time frames are never written in stone. It is according to the amount of rainfall over the Cumberland Plateau.

[StriperFan]

Originally Posted by Dakota

What kind of fish do you think these are? I dropped a Marker buoy thought I was about ready to get into them. Not sure if it was a quick moving school or what but I threw everything including live minnows no bites.


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These also look like possible large gizzard shad to me in the places I catch bait.

[agelesssone]

Originally Posted by StriperFan

These also look like possible large gizzard shad to me in the places I catch bait.

If you threw minnows and small spoons at them and didn't get any takers, I'd go with striperfan and call them gizzards.
This is the screen I am looking for when I'm trying to catch shad.

[JDH8504]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

If you threw minnows and small spoons at them and didn't get any takers, I'd go with striperfan and call them gizzards.
This is the screen I am looking for when I'm trying to catch shad.

I caught a big gizzard shad on a Red Eye Shad in the fall. Although, he didn't eat it...must have swiped at it or something.

[Dakota]

Thanks fellas for the reply backs on my images I posted. I did throw minnows on a slip float and tight lining a minnow with just a split shot. Plus small jigs thinking they were possibly Crappie. Large gizzards makes sense in that area.


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[Dakota]

I guess this caption says it all.




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