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Thank you for this information, this would explain a lot. Great post!

That's an award winning cast !

This model here is essentially the one I have and you can see there is a mass above the fish then all the fish symbols everywhere, this is basically what I saw all day Sunday.

Awesome, thanks for the input, I feel kinda silly owning a depth finder and just now being able to understand it properly

Wow! Thank you for that information, very good to have! Yeah we had good luck on it once, but then the other day just brutal, and we were curious if it was like that for everyone or if we just were horrible fishermen. I think we want to try some other lakes, but with it being the closest lake to us (of any size) we wanted to fish it more and get into hopefully larger bass. Not really MORE , but really BIGGER bass. But, anyways, thank you again for that great information!

On my finder, there are fish symbols and different sizes of fish symbols, I could easily see how it could pick up vegitation and represent it as a fish. It gets a little confusing it becaues you will see what looks like vegitation on the finder and then it will also show fish symbols either below it or sometimes in it.

Ok, thank you guys for the valuable feed back! Any tips for fishing standard lakes with broken trees and stumps as main structure?

Here I am posting an example of what I am talking about, I have a Humminbird so this is purely a close example. I want to know what direction that ditch is going its it is parallel to me or perpidicular ?

Sorry guys for the crazy number of posts, but also on the finder it would show some suspended weeds or moss and then show the fish under it, usually at about 8-9 foot deep in 15 ft water. So I think it was fairly accurate. And thanks again to everyone who is posting and helping me out!

Along with the topic of fish on the finder, I do need a tip on how to read it. It scrolls left to right and my transducer is located on the back of the boat, so should I be reading it as in front to back or left to right like it is showing. So when I see a ditch I know where it actually is and which way it is running.

Yeah that was exactly the weather, not a single cloud to be seen and about 65 in the morning up to about 80 at noon. And I guess I can just assume that it was showing actual fish, I like to think my fish finder is dependable. I mainly only use it for depth and temp and for locating structure, dips, and ditches. But when you see fish all over it you cant help be get excited.

No, its actually moss, form the boat it looks like it is about 1' down into the water and they look like huge just balls of mass coming from the ground up, you would think it is a mine field of moss. When I drag a lure through it my lure is covered in vibrate green slimey moss. The whole lake isnt this way, mainly just back on the coves. There several weed beds but mainly moss in the coves.

Thanks for the reply, that very well could have been the case, it stormed about 2 days prior and the air did become chilly, the water temp dropped from 83 to 74.

And it is a fairly decent sized lake, so surely ALL the fish wouldnt be dsitrubed by boat traffic

Yeah, I am curious to find out if they just wernt biting or if it was bad technique or whatever the case my be. There was 2 day fishing tourney happening at the same time, some other people I have spoke with thought that maybe the water was just kinda churned up from all the boats and people everywhere, but when I looked at that depth finder it was full of fish all day and I mean absolutely packed.