Live scope

[Dutch]

2 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

You have to start asking if using a live scope (use hunting terms) violates the ethics of fair chase. To me it is starting to become like using thermal imaging and night vision goggles to hunt deer. I understand that you still need to put the bait in front of active fish, but you are able to eliminate all of those spots where fish are not very easily. That will greatly increase localized fishing pressure. Just some thoughts.

I’d say they’d have a better chance than the fish did when we used to use a gig.

[DADAKOTA]

Gig isn't very effective where you can't see the fish.  Livescope still is.

[Johnsfolly]

29 minutes ago, Devan S. said:

Maybe 20 total in 5 hours fishing. 

A 50lb

25lber

and a bunch between 5 and 15lbs.

Have to love needing to hug a big slimy blue cat! Sounds like a great trip.

[Mitch f]

Nice fish!!

And also a beautiful girlfriend/wife holding a huge fish and smiling while wearing a Carhartt cap. She’s a keeper my friend! 

[Devan S.]

2 hours ago, Mitch f said:

Nice fish!!

And also a beautiful girlfriend/wife holding a huge fish and smiling while wearing a Carhartt cap. She’s a keeper my friend! 

Thanks, she's for sure a keeper. Out fishes me any time I take her. 

Good/Bad news is after kid 1 in 2018....I stopped getting my butt kicked so often.

[Seth]

19 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

You have to start asking if using a live scope (use hunting terms) violates the ethics of fair chase. To me it is starting to become like using thermal imaging and night vision goggles to hunt deer. I understand that you still need to put the bait in front of active fish, but you are able to eliminate all of those spots where fish are not very easily. That will greatly increase localized fishing pressure. Just some thoughts.

You're assuming EVERYBODY is going out and dropping $3k on a forward facing sonar setup. I still know a lot of people who don't even have side imaging yet and it's been out for over a decade. Side imaging is a far greater asset than forward facing sonar.

[Seth]

 

17 hours ago, Devan S. said:

Very similar to how we cat fished with a guide on the Mo river. 

Would check the ends of wing dikes. He would drop a GPS when he spotted a fish on side scan. Pull up on the dike. Measure GPS and direction and cast. Then use line counter reels to approximate distance. 

He said if no bite in 15 minutes we'd move because he was 95% sure he was on them.

Yep. Just because you can find them doesn't mean they are feeding. You have to know when to leave fish to find actively feeding fish.

[Seth]

multi post....

 

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1 hour ago, Seth said:

You're assuming EVERYBODY is going out and dropping $3k on a forward facing sonar setup. I still know a lot of people who don't even have side imaging yet and it's been out for over a decade. Side imaging is a far greater asset than forward facing sonar.

Do you ever use anything when river fishing or at Taney?

[Flysmallie]

18 hours ago, Mitch f said:

And also a beautiful girlfriend/wife holding a huge fish and smiling while wearing a Carhartt cap. She’s a keeper my friend! 

Starting to act like Creepy Joe.