Jakes Cove Wednesday

[Phil Lilley]

Went late afternoon.  Started close to the last dock on SE side of the lake and ran it almost all the way to the end.  Fished a pearl slider, 3/16 oz head.  Caught probably 20 bass, mostly K's, all short.  Several LM, 2 keeps - 18 and 19.5 inches.  Lots of fun.

[bobby b.]

13 hours ago, Phil Lilley said:

Caught probably 20 bass,

Phil,

I understand from a previous post that you have Panoptics.  Can you see the individual fish up near the bank on the live scope and see it take the lure?

Thanks

Bobby

[Bill Babler]

Nope.  If your going down a shallow bank and throwing in like that your transducer is not pointed into the bank where you are throwing, its pointed ahead.  If you are fishing that shallow that's not what the unit was designed to do.

We were catching crappie and bass on a section of wind blown gravel in 4' of water and had the transducer pointed right at it and could not make out anything.  We later moved off and looked under some deep docks and could see just fine.  But no up shallow.

[bobby b.]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

We were catching crappie and bass on a section of wind blown gravel in 4' of water and had the transducer pointed right at it and could not make out anything

At what depth do you guess they become effective?

[Hughesy]

2 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

We were catching crappie and bass on a section of wind blown gravel in 4' of water and had the transducer pointed right at it and could not make out anything.  We later moved off and looked under some deep docks and could see just fine.  But no up shallow.

When fishing that shallow you should be in perspective mode. That what it was designed for.

[Bill Babler]

We were in perspective mode.   It seemed to compress the view and really garble it up looking that shallow.  Crappie were in less than 4' and there was not only cover but wind blowing in.  we had the motor spot locked and with the wind trying to turn the bow of the boat away from the bank the view was not that great.  At the end of the arc of the 180 degree view the deeper the water was the clearer the view became

Another problem is there were 2 footers coming in on a 4' bank.  As I said later when going down a dock line or looking under deeper docks it worked but I'm just not sold yet you can go down a windy bank in under 5' of water and see much even on perspective view.  You for sure can't see your jig, the way Greg had it set up.

Tim if you have seen this under 4' and seen your bait I believe it but we couldn't.

[Hughesy]

The perspective mode is hard to read. First you must turn down the gain, turn up the color gain, and make sure the TVG is off. You can definitely see fish. 1/16 oz crappie jig, no. Also, having it on a separate pole gives you more time to read it. Trolling motor shaft mounts stink for trying to zero in and hold on a certain structure.

[Bill Babler]

There you go.  Thanks.