Kimberling City 12-28-14

[fishingaddiction]

Started the day around 9:00 am with an air temp of around 26 degrees and water temp at 46. Very cold with slick as glass water and ice in the rod guides. Caught a keeper LM on a zoom swimming fluke jr. in albino color about 15 to 20' deep in front of a dock. Worked that area over without any other bites so I left for another location. Saw some gulls and loons working shad a good ways out from a fairly flat secondary point so I shut her down and eased in to see if there were any fish in the area.

For the next 2 hours it was non stop catching. I lost count after about 20 in the boat. I caught mostly keeper K's, but got some LM and one smallie. As these fish were deep, all bass were caught on the 1/2 oz white and silver war eagle spoon. I had to move around some as there were several schools of fish at different depths. The shad and fish also continued to move deeper as the sun got higher. Best and most fish came from 30 to 45' deep around some standing timber. I watched several fish come up from the bottom to take the spoon on the graph.....video fishing at it's finest!

Not a very good pic of the screen shot, but hopefully you can see the fish streaking up through the shad. What a great day on the Rock and one I will remember for some time.

Good Luck and GO HOGS BEAT TEXAS........WPS!

[Quillback]

Excellent - thanks for sharing!

[JacobW]

Nice report

[BleacherBum28]

FishingAddiction, I believe my father purchased the same model depth finder, but as I don't use it often enough, have had problems dialing it in. We've never charted the arches as you show. Can you tell me your settings? Chart speed, sensitivity etc. We fish up the kings near Viola mostly, but your settings should get me close. Thanks.

[fishingaddiction]

FishingAddiction, I believe my father purchased the same model depth finder, but as I don't use it often enough, have had problems dialing it in. We've never charted the arches as you show. Can you tell me your settings? Chart speed, sensitivity etc. We fish up the kings near Viola mostly, but your settings should get me close. Thanks.

Go to set up in the menu, select advanced mode. Set your down depth manually, never automatic. As you can see mine is set to 60' and the actual depth is 47.6'. You will have to hit your menu button once and adjust it as you fish different depths beyond your previous setting. Chart speed depends on how fast you're moving, but usually max or 75%, depends on how fast you want your screen to refresh. Sensitivity goes from 1 to 10, I usually set at about 7 or 8, but maximum is good if you don't get a lot of screen clutter. Set your sonar beam to 455hz for maximum coverage. I think I have covered the basics, just go out and play with the settings some. I still learn something almost every time out. I don't have the screen split with map/sonar, but that works well if you are trying to stay on a waypoint. The 597 is a decent unit for a compact 5" screen. Just let me know if you have any other questions.

[abkeenan]

Nice report. It's nice when the Table Rock stars align and you happen into a location like that. Doesn't happen often but you remember when it does. Been awhile since I've stumbled onto something like that but that's what makes them special is that they are rare (at least for a chump like me).

[Champ188]

Nice work, addiction, and a very thorough report. Glad you found them chomping.

[Bill Babler]

Thank you for the very nice report. Glad you caught the deep ones and as I tell folks, using your eyes is as good a way as any. Seeing the birds over the feed was a great tip off you followed. That does not always work here but it did for you yesterday. Great deal

I notice a lot of horizontal clutter on the screen shot. I was going to suggest maybe you have your sensitivity up to high, but sounds like you know your machine and how to read thru it.

I am just lost with the bird units. On our Low, HD units as on all the others, I can see a single shad without any clutter on the screen. On a 100% scale right now and I have a very not transducer, I am running about 68 percent. I posted a bunch of screen shots last year, somewhere and you can see everything on a perfectly clean screen.

Just wondered about the clutter. Thanks in advance for the info.

[fishingaddiction]

Bill, you are correct about the clutter. Remember seeing your screen shots you posted, they are crystal clear, which is what my unit produced before mounting the unit in the bow. I do need to turn the sensitivity down, but I suspect that there is some noise/interference coming from the trolling motor or something else. Been working with the power & transducer cable connections in the bow panel and recently installed a ground wire as per the Humminbird technician. I may have the ground connected to the wrong ground wire in the bow. Adjusting the noise filter on the unit has helped some, but not what I want. If anyone out there has a fix for this problem, I would be interested in hearing about it.

I have a 36 volt minn kota maxxum troller. According to Humminbird these are the most difficult motors to fix this problem.

[Fish24/7]

I know a couple guys who chase "birds" all winter on BS. (Loons are always around feeding fish )

Good eye fishingaddiction !