B-Faithful
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Post up some shots of your fishfinder in action andthings you look for when fishing.
Below are some shots of my Garmin 3010c mated with the digital GSD22 sounder box and airmar tilted element transducer taken on Good Friday. They were taken by my guest or I would have liked to have had a shot of when we werent marking so many fish so you could see how clearly the thermocline is defined. We had a steady temp break around the 30' mark all morning we were out. As you can see, the baitfish (which were menhaden, aka bunker) were all above the temp break. While almost all our bite came from lures drug high in the water column my experience has led me to find that while they dont get hit as frequently, dragging baits right about the thermocline yields the biggest fish. While we didnt get any hogs on the deep lures this day, the trip prior where we had similar marks but far less bait landed a few fish around the 44"/ 40lb mark (roe laden females) on deeper running umbrellas that we tried to set in the thermocline. All the fish higher in the water column tended to be smaller fish in the 34-39" range (and more lean males)
The frequency was set at 200k and the gain turn to fairly low in an attempt to pick up the temp breaks. Overall I have been very happy with the gsd22 sounder box and think it holds it own with some better known units. It certainly is better than the analog GSD20 I had on my old boat. I do miss the knobs on the furuno stand alone unit (FCV667) I had on a previous boat that allowed me to adjust the gain as we went along but I havent had any trouble finding marks and distinguishing what I was looking for. The weaknesses IMHO of the unit are very shallow water and the lack of knobs for instant tunability while in use.
Here are the shots from friday.. Post up what you read on yours.
Below are some shots of my Garmin 3010c mated with the digital GSD22 sounder box and airmar tilted element transducer taken on Good Friday. They were taken by my guest or I would have liked to have had a shot of when we werent marking so many fish so you could see how clearly the thermocline is defined. We had a steady temp break around the 30' mark all morning we were out. As you can see, the baitfish (which were menhaden, aka bunker) were all above the temp break. While almost all our bite came from lures drug high in the water column my experience has led me to find that while they dont get hit as frequently, dragging baits right about the thermocline yields the biggest fish. While we didnt get any hogs on the deep lures this day, the trip prior where we had similar marks but far less bait landed a few fish around the 44"/ 40lb mark (roe laden females) on deeper running umbrellas that we tried to set in the thermocline. All the fish higher in the water column tended to be smaller fish in the 34-39" range (and more lean males)
The frequency was set at 200k and the gain turn to fairly low in an attempt to pick up the temp breaks. Overall I have been very happy with the gsd22 sounder box and think it holds it own with some better known units. It certainly is better than the analog GSD20 I had on my old boat. I do miss the knobs on the furuno stand alone unit (FCV667) I had on a previous boat that allowed me to adjust the gain as we went along but I havent had any trouble finding marks and distinguishing what I was looking for. The weaknesses IMHO of the unit are very shallow water and the lack of knobs for instant tunability while in use.
Here are the shots from friday.. Post up what you read on yours.
Your location is still clear in the pictures 8) You must have those James Bond glasses with the camera built in..I've never thought of taking pictures of my displays.
