Happy New Year Everyone!

[Seth]

23 hours ago, Beasley said:

The biggest killer of crappie right now isn’t livescope it’s Facebook. Everyone wants to be a Facebook hero and get their 30 seconds of fame by posting pictures and where they caught their fish or where they saw other people catching fish. Next thing you now there’s 15 to 30 boats beating the crap out of a school. Most people would never take the time to find the fish if they didn’t have them handed to them. You also have the disrespectful boat hunters that see you catch a fish and think that since no one owns the lake they can come join in on the same school you are fishing. Then post it on Facebook and ruin your spot. Had that happen to me this year thanks to some bass fisherman seeing me catching fish, idling out of their way to side image what I was fishing then proceeding to call their buddy’s right beside me. Next thing you know Jeremy lawyer posts where they are and how good it is on Facebook so now the spot is ruined. 

Must be somewhere other that LoZ because anybody with a clue and side imaging should be able to go out and hammer fish on that lake anywhere below the 55mm.

[top_dollar]

19 hours ago, Seth said:

Why the heck would somebody want to clean a big bass when they are catching crappie? I sure don't know anybody that would. If we wanted bass, we'd bass fish.....

               To each his own, but when I go meat fishing, I generally toss every legal fish in the cooler, I just learned not to post those pics on the table rock forum 🤣.  I am not a livescoper yet...but in a few years they will have one for 200$ dollars and we will all have one connected straight to our smartphones.  There are tons of fisherman like me, who suck, and even if we keep every fish we catch we cant do any harm.  On lakes like table rock or stockton, for me, finding fish is the hard part using paper maps, lining up trees and rocks on the bank, and using 2d graphs.  Ive often heard that with livescope you still have to make them bite...but we all know that on deep clear impoundments, finding them takes WAYYYY more time than cycling through baits to see what makes them react.  I could very well be wrong (I guess I hope I am too).  I just think that this new technology is really going to take its toll on lakes that set up perfect for it with lots of roaming suspended fish.

[top_dollar]

On 1/9/2023 at 10:47 AM, Lifes2Short said:

I haven’t posted in a long time so I hope everyone’s been well! Had a banner day on the water yesterday with my good friend George.  Started off slow but around noon they really started to bite!  A few fish in the brushpiles but most of the fish, including the 3 walleye, we on channel swing banks in 25’ of water. A bunch of boats on the water, seems livescope has changed our quiet winter fishing days. Most fish came vertical jigging. 
Tight Lines All!

That is a heck of a walleye btw.  Great fish!

[straw hat]

You know all this talk about fisherman trying to spot where other fishermen are catching fish and telling others/posting reminds me of another subject that bugs me. As many of you know I have put out probably 100 brush piles in Stockton over the years and every year I find several that have been hooked and dragged up on shore. Most of the time they have been broken up and i have to redo them. They are not shallow, maybe 10 to 15 ft deep and are weighted by around 50 to 70 lbs of weight. This tells me that someone is targeting them specifically to get them out of the lake. I remember one year in winter I went into the CC area and put out cedar tree brush piles. While I was doing that I guess there was a bass fisherman watching who saw me and later removed the brush pile to a new area. The next spring while fishing I was surprised to see that one of the brush piles was gone. While fishing the area in the spring a bass boat came by and the fisherman said he had seen someone put out a brush pile there during the winter. He said he had hooked it and drug it to one of his favorite bass areas and thought that was really funny. I told him I was that guy and he stopped laughing and boated away. What a jerk. Too lazy to make his own brush piles. 

[DADAKOTA]

Lots of brush piles get moved via folks inadvertently dropping dropping their anchor in them.  Snagged into an anchor line off a pile and ended up with a nice anchor and 50 feet of line.  Often times they get moved a little bit before the anchor comes free.

[straw hat]

6 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

Lots of brush piles get moved via folks inadvertently dropping dropping their anchor in them.  Snagged into an anchor line off a pile and ended up with a nice anchor and 50 feet of line.  Often times they get moved a little bit before the anchor comes free.

Your right but not dragged up on the shore and had the wire used cut up in little pieces.