Fishing Report

[troutgnat]

Gentlemen,

Met the buddies Sat. @ 8am and launched 2 boats out of Indian Point marina. Based on some information from fellow anglers on here (A big thank you to those who supplied me some info!) and a recent report from a buddies buddy we decided to launch out of Indian. Part of that decision was due to accounting for an easterly wind that day. Anyway we tried to fish all your typical jerkbait water. Windy banks, south warming banks, bluff ends & channel swings, points adjacent to deep water, etc........Never got a jerkbait fish! I guess we never got the right combination of the above. We just couldn't find where the jerkbait bite was. We were throwing McSticks and some Rogues by the way.

Well, luck did come our way! We headed back up towards Indian. We found a flock of gulls in a large pocket not far from the Marina. We moved in and starting spooning over some deep water. Got bit a couple of times on a spoon but no takers. We decided to move off the main school of bait and tune in on some smaller pockets of shad. Located some smaller bait schools in 40' and zoned in on them with some drop-shot rigs. We started picking up some short kentuckies. My buddy fine tuned his depthfinder and went to work streaking and started picking up fish. I tried adjusting mine but never could get it dialed in to see my line and weight on the screen. I'll get into this on another post shortly. Anyway, I did the only thing I knew to do and that was look for bait and find fish. I consistently started graphing bait and fish at about 30' in 38-40' of water in one particular stretch. I'd mark em' then drop my rig all the way to the bottom and reel up about 2-3 cranks. Every now and then dip the rod a bit to bounce the bait and BAM, fish on!

From about 1:30-4:30 had a limit of keepers. 4 big fat Kentuckies and a good 3lb smallie. Ended up being not a bad day! The other guys had two keeper smallies and 2 keeper Kentuckies I believe.

[denjac]

troutgnat, Not too shabby! I stayed away this week as I thought it might be tough. Going to give it a go mid week. Dont know whether It will be rising water or current from Beaver. Either way it might get things going, ( I hope).

[CaptainJoe]

troutgnat: You many have not been able to dial in because your buddy's sonar was interferring with yours. You get interference when multiple boats are in the same area with their sonars on. It happens to Don House and I all the time. This may have happened.

[troutgnat]

troutgnat: You many have not been able to dial because your buddy's sonar was interferring with yours. You get interference when multiple boats are in the same area with their sonars on. It happens to Don House and I all the time. This may have happened.

Yea we thought of that. I was a good 60+ yards from him at one point or so and still didn't get anything. What kinda distance are you talking here?

[edwin]

My LCX 37 on the bow will pick up the signal of another unit that's a couple hundred yards away. The 60 yds you're mentioning, you'll definitely get interferenc from one another.

[CaptainJoe]

I agree with Edwin....I get interference from up to a couple of hundered yards away with my HDS-10.

[getfished]

OK, good info here. I'm not trying to divert the thread but could use a bit more info. As a general rule are we going to have the same interference issues when running two units on the same boat?

[Bill P]

OK, good info here. I'm not trying to divert the thread but could use a bit more info. As a general rule are we going to have the same interference issues when running two units on the same boat?

If you're in my boat....YES. X125 on bow,LMS 480 thru the hull

[Gone Fishing]

OK, good info here. I'm not trying to divert the thread but could use a bit more info. As a general rule are we going to have the same interference issues when running two units on the same boat?

No expert here but, yes you will have interference with your own units. Next time while out fishing, especially when your out deep, try turning off the unit on the console and watch how much cleaner it makes the unit on the bow. If you can imagine the cones off of your transducer going down and getting bigger it is easy to see how when the cones overlap they will interfear with each other.