Questions

[phil2]

Questions

Last summer I would get a hard thermocline at 40 ft that my hummingbird 1197 would pick up said 60 deg. At the time the place to be was 75 ft. But I kept graphing fish at 40 to 45 ft. I set once there but no bites. Could they been salmon or trout?

[HB2]

They could be perch or smallmouths or sheepheads or carp, ETC. Everything you mark is  not a salmon or Trout . Many years ago a good friend told me this and it is a good thing to remember. 

[jimski2]

I changed by old X16 graph's ping settings and fish were marked at 100 foot and none below it. Then fish appeared all the way down to 250 foot. Graphs work at certain depths but not at all depths all the time. Many fish are not shown at times. Especially deeper depths.


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[Paul Czarnecki]

Were the fleas bad at the time? A lot of graphs will mark bands of fleas. The fleas hold in the 60 degree water.


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[phil2]

No I can see the fleas these were fish. 

[Sk8man]

I think HB2 may have hit the nail on the head. Most folks are in the mindset of thinking everything that apears on the screen is either bait or trout/salmon. Smallmouth bass suspend in groups in the summertime at various depths for example. I have personally seen "herds" of carp traversing the lake near surface in over 500 ft of water. I've even caught a bulhead 80 ft down over 300 plus ft of water on a Seth Green rig before.  When a strong thermocline is firmly established microrgansims and bait seem to get "trapped" within it and various fish take advantage of it - not only trout and salmon so you can be washing spoons waiting for hits and these fish appear disinterested and it can be because they are the "wrong" species.

Edited February 16, 2017 by Sk8man

[phil2]

Ya I would stick a spoon out on a planner dipsy set and get nothing. I wondered what they could be. Wasn't showing much below had me scratching my head.