Tues Shell Knob Area

[CMAC]

SKMO,

Thanks for the insight. My hookset isn't pretty on the metal lead either, I am usually glad one will hit the darn thing for me.

This weekend looks to be a nice one, if you get out good luck!!!!

[SKMO]

skmo:

i'm new on here so i hope i can post this correctly.

some of the fish were caught on 3/16 oz jigs. around 20-25 ft. some were on 3/4 fb head jigs and were 25 -35 ft. we tried it again today with much different results. 5 fish, 2 small keepers. all jigs. i have a question. i need a new finder and am looking into a lowrance lms-25. sounds like you have good elctronics. what do you have and any suggestions?

I have the LCX-25C. (The LMS series you mentioned are all numbered in the 300's and 400's so you might have something transposed.)

I had an X-15 prior to this which was really good but this thing is awesome. I was told on the phone by lowrance that the LMS 300 series were almost identical just smaller screens but not sure if that is correct. I run the screen split between the GPS and sonar 95% of the time so wanted the larger screen.

Best price I could find was at Jolly Ann Marine (jollyannsales.com). Best price plus no sales tax as they are in Iowa. For some reason it shipped cheaper than what they had posted on internet so I saved a couple hundred $s.

I think the thing normally ships with a skimmer type transducer which CAN be mounted on trolling motor but I wanted a puck to put on the TM as teh skimmer looked kind of easy to break. You can do an exchange with lowrance for free, or maybe get the seller to send you the one you want as they are packaged seperately.

I love the unit. Resoultion is incredible. GPS works great, and both are fairly easy to use. Has a wide cone angle so easy to keep track of your rig below the boat. There is nothing I do not like about it, and I actually like it a lot better than I expected if that makes any sense. The ONLY reason I upgraded was that the X-15 would not run the Navionics Premium map chip, and the one coming out in Jan 07 will have a new data set for Table Rock with the lake mapped at 2' countours.

Any other questions let me know.

[bassman1308]

YOUR CORRECT ,IT IS A LMX-25C I'M LOOKING AT. LOWRANCE IS COMING OUT WITH A LCX-27C IN LATE DEC OF THIS YEAR WHICH IS TO REPLACE THE LMX-25C. BASS BOAT CENTRAL HAD SOME INFO ON THEM. I DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL THE TECH TALK BUT THEY APPEAR TO BE THE SAME UNIT, HOWEVER I'M SURE ITS "NEW & IMPROVED". THANKS FOR THE INFO. IT SOUNDS VERY POSITIVE.

[SKMO]

When I was shopping for it a few months ago I was told the same thing by Lowrance. They actually let me talk w/a sales engineer who said that there were some minor softwarte differences but physically they were identical, and you could actually install new operating software on the 25 (if you wanted to) and it would be same as a 27.

You will not be disappointed if you end up getting one.

[SKMO]

Brief follow up to Tues trip report:

Went same spots Fri Aft and kind of struggled. Caught 3 KY 13-14" with no keepers, and 3 white bass 2-2.5 lbs. All the WB were caught on a big bulky sand tube which was a little strange as I did not fish it that much.

Sat morning better, fishing between 10:30 and 2:30 I think I had 11 with 4 legal including a 17" LM and 17" KY. Nothing extrordinary or huge but enough to keep me interested until I had to leave. Water temps hovering 50-51 between Baxter and SK and the dingy water had made it to Big Bay. I heard it was 47-48 in the clear water up the White toward Big M.

Caught all bass 40-55' deep on spoons around shad. Most shad were in the deepest guts of the side coves in 80-90' of water right at the cove mouth. I also saw some nice bunches on gravel points/flats in 50-60 but never caught any there, but did not spend much time with them either.

Overall for me deep water with shad in the top of submerged timber. If I am lucky enough to be there the time or two each day they happen to go on a feed it can be pretty good. Otherwise it's just bouncing stuff in and around the treetops for the occasional fish but they are certainly down there. The shad seem actually fairly easy to locate right now, but that's only about half the battle, the other half being locating shad in locations bass want to hang out, and being there when they are not already stuffed to the gills with shad. Pun intended. Had you not picked up on it I am pretty keyed in on "shad" during this time of year. Ever wondered where the expression "stuffed to the gills" originated?

Saw a lot of guys pounding the banks with hardware and jigs but never got to talk with anyone so don't know whats going on there. By the time I left at 2:30 most bass rigs were well offshore so I would guess not much.