Portable Fish Finders anyone?

[MuskieBait]

(07-23-2012 03:43 PM)MichaelAngelo Wrote:  Unfortunately, we failed to catch any lakers on our trip. We were limited to 3-4 hours total fishing time in an evening and a morning. We tried during the day, but the breeze was too strong to maintain a speed that would allow our lures to stay on the bottom. I was rocking a whitegrub/nightcrawler combo on a dropshot rig and my friend was using a plastic swimbait, also dropshotting.

The park warden came by to enforce the fire ban. We asked him where we could find lakers, and he pointed us to a 100-120 feet deep channel that ran through the bay we were staying on. Drifting through the channel, the fishfinder detected "fish" right on the bottom, at 90 feet, and at 40 feet. I left the fish alarm on because I didn't feel confident enough to look for arches on my own.

Things I can improve on for next time would be to use heavier lead sinkers, braided or fluoro line with no stretch, spend more hours at first light at dusk, and learn to better interpret our fishfinder.

BassPro sells some bank sinkers from 1-6oz in size...those should be plenty heavy

When is your next trip for lakers? Maybe you and I can take the canoe to Binbrook to chase some white crappies...and I can show you how to use the fishfinder (my unit is the same). We'll definitely need to use the fishfinder to look for schooling crappies in the main basin. We can do this after my trip.