Jonathan D Saunders

That makes complete sense...stop doing that :D

Why? Don't mean that rudely... unfortunately forums do not show facial expressions nor let you hear voice inflection. I really want to know...I do know it never seems to go off.

Hey Guys and Gals, I purchased a Hummingbird 570 DI and am pretty impressed but I feel like maybe my settings could be tweaked to gain some better results. If someone has something similar and understands all of the settings, could you take a look at my settings and let me know if there is somewhere I could do something better? 1st menu: Sensitivity: 10 out of 1-20 Lower Range: Auto Chart Speed: 8 Bottom View: Structure ID <---set here White Line Bottom Black Inverse 2nd menu (sonar) Beam Select: 455khz (highest setting) Imaging Frequency: 800khz Structure Clutter: 5 out of 1-10 Switch Fire: Max Mode Fish ID +: On Fish ID Sensitivity: 8 out of 1-10 RTS Window: Wide Zoom Width: Wide I understand depth has a lot to do with the settings, so just as an FYI, the deepest I have fished is 32' with it and will probably never see 50'. Always freshwater, always Bass. Thanks for all the help.

Right at the shorelines, the average depth is 1-3'. Most of the shoreline has a really nice sharp drop to around the 8-12' depth. The 8-12' depths are not static and bowl shaped like most lakes though...it is a smaller area that within a 1/2 to a full cast comes back up somewhere to 2-5'. With the exception of a few confined areas of mud, the entire bottom is sand/shale. The entire lake bottom except the 10+ areas are either eel grass or standing (not balled) hydrilla. I really wish this lake a bathoscopic map to show you but with a major tournament lake less than a mile from it, it is overshadowed and mostly overlooked. It is called lake Stella in Crescent City if you want to get a Google satellite view of it though. EDIT: There are 4 sharp dropping, deep holes that are 20+' deep...I am positive by looking at the read out on my range finder that one is a spring.

BTW, the water temp is right at the magic 75 degree mark during the day right now.

That has always been my theory as well, and I can catch the 1 and two pounders all around the lake all day long. I am just having difficulty locating the hawgs. The lake is ripe for hawg hunting. Clear water down to around 5 foot. a lot of eel grass, hydrilla in much of the 3-6 foot water but it isn't over running the lake, sandy bottom with only a few areas with mud. several 20+ foot holes with sharp ledges, large 2-3 foot feeding tables/bedding areas, plenty of bottom variation. One of the 20+ holes I am sure is a spring. Zero creeks, canals or tributaries connecting to the lake. Crank baits really set off the Bass in here but the only large ones have been off of shiners and I really do not want to pigeonhole myself to only catching big ones with shiners.

I have been fishing for Largemouth Bass for a long time and only yesterday did I ponder whether or not I was performing a key part of my fishing trips correctly, I have been blessed to be able to grow up and live in Florida. I now reside in Crescent City which has been aptly named the "Bass Capital of the World". I generally fish the eastern shoreline at first light. The western shoreline is the one with all the trees though. The western shoreline gets the light first but within an hour the eastern shoreline has light as well and it gets the light the longest period during the day. The nearest obstruction to light is a line of trees about 50 yards away which only block about an hour of daylight in the morning. I am really starting to think I need to switch to the western shoreline for my first light fishing on this particular lake. Can anyone give me some pointers?