Guest Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 This was shot near a marina with a Hummingbird 788 DI combo You can see the cables leading to the weight. What in the world are those fish? they're massive.
J-Doc Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 Pair of spoonbill. You can see the nose on the left side trailing off. You should post this in the interpretation sticky above. :-). Need marine repair? Send our own forum friend "fishinwrench" a message. He will treat you like family!!! I owe fishinwrench a lot of thanks. He has been a great mechanic with lots of patience!
Guest Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 I didn't think about Spoonbills, but you might be right. There appears to be a group of smaller fish to the left of them.
Guest Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 This appears to be deep pole timber with a small school of fish on the right. Does that look like shad near the surface or motor wash?
J-Doc Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 Probably so. At that scale it's speculative. If it's not a pair of catfish, striper, or my personal belief (large sturgeon that no one knows about) it's spoonbill. I zoomed in on the image and noticed the bills. I'm serious about the sturgeon thing. I know what I saw 2yrs ago. I thought a diver surfaced in the middle of Blackburn Creek in Beaver. And was in distress. Violent thrashing at least 6ft long. Then quiet. I motored over and saw two massive arches about 38ft down in 45ft of water. Way too long to be striper or even a spoonbill. I couldn't take a screenshot on an old grayscale unt or I would have. The arches filled my little 5" Eagle graph in 45ft of water. The Loch Ness of Beaver Lake. Lol!!! I read small river sturgeon were natural to the white prior to the lake. So that was my guess. And why I wonder if it's even possible. They generally stay deep all year. Need marine repair? Send our own forum friend "fishinwrench" a message. He will treat you like family!!! I owe fishinwrench a lot of thanks. He has been a great mechanic with lots of patience!
J-Doc Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 Very probable. Only a guess. Need marine repair? Send our own forum friend "fishinwrench" a message. He will treat you like family!!! I owe fishinwrench a lot of thanks. He has been a great mechanic with lots of patience!
J-Doc Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 Yes. I'm a bit of a sonar geek. Just ask fishinwrench. Lol!!! Need marine repair? Send our own forum friend "fishinwrench" a message. He will treat you like family!!! I owe fishinwrench a lot of thanks. He has been a great mechanic with lots of patience!
Guest Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 Notice the red patch near the surface on the 17ft image? I think that's a school of thread fin shad.
J-Doc Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 Yes. That's why I believe it is threadfin based on sonar and structure view. Need marine repair? Send our own forum friend "fishinwrench" a message. He will treat you like family!!! I owe fishinwrench a lot of thanks. He has been a great mechanic with lots of patience!
dtrs5kprs Posted December 18, 2014 Posted December 18, 2014 I always hurt my neck looking at Humminbird shots. That said, they do look like the spoonbill pics folks have posted from the rivers on TR. The sturgeon deal sounds completely plausible. Just because we have not seen what routinely lives in 70' of water with ledges and wood does not mean it isn't there. There were no mountain lions either, right? Or it could just be the Taneycomo Giant Squid, having worked upstream to wreak havoc and ruin! Run and Hide!
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