TnRiver46

About a dozen people swimming right up the middle Of the river accompanied by a German shepherd. Not the smartest thing I’ve seen, my game warden buddies told me it’s their own fault if they get ran over. I came within about 50 yards of one of them a few days before this photo before I realized what it was and I was going 1.76 mph. There are big barges and tons of ski boats that go right through there. I think there was an open water swimmer that got hit by a boat last year and drowned

Love the toad

If you can’t stand the thought of beaching a boat, you might not want to get into tournament fishing! Those guys boats take a serious beating

Hahah!! I was downtown where the fishing is no good anyhow. But seriously it does seem that a good way to learn electronics is start by scanning where you know something is. My earlier depth finders I just scanned over schools of white bass I already knew were there. That way I would know what a school looks like in future scenarios. This is my first unit with side imaging, I’m not sure if I’m marking any fish with it but I sure think I saw a few big shadows of carp silhouettes yesterday . Definitely saw bridge posts!

Clearly you’ve never been to TN haha. There’s 100 Bass boats beached on the rocks every Saturday. It looks about like this on rip rap . Usually they will have a weigh in tent right near the rocks and everyone beaches to off load their catch. They usually just stick the trolling motor on the bank or power pole down to hold in place

No way in heck I could even win a small local tournament, which I why I usually don’t enter haha

That’s what I use, along with a couple 5000s

So I drove by a bridge a few times……….. I guess the side imaging is working alright!! that last picture is the smallmouth bass Taj Mahal

I had a window from 4:30 to 6:30 and got a decent one on the poor man’s Ned rig

Atta boy

Wow, I hate to hear that. I can’t imagine life without my brother. Sending prayers your way

I love throwing stuff away or taking it to goodwill

Bill dance has done the same thing with a battery so don’t feel bad…….. fast forward to 1:25 mark for the battery instance or watch it all because it’s hilarious If the weight of your vessel is too much, I would recommend a sit in kayak around the 10-11 foot range. Lots of them are very light and won’t require a motor or battery, but they are still tricky to get in and out of. I used to always say “why do batteries have to be so heavy?? We put a man on the moon but can’t make a battery weigh less than 35 lbs??” to which someone replied “you ain’t making it to the moon with a lightweight battery…….” touche.

Back in the saddle (short after work session). Loving the new graph! Fellow forum member @Jerminationshowed me lots of tricks with it. My side imaging does hit the foot of the motor (on the right) sometimes as I have no jack plate but I can trim it up and clear it (I think)

Belly scratch? Huh?

hopefully I did that right!!! My buddy and his 1 year old daughter supervised. I used my old transducer location that gave a clear reading even at wide open throttle (and also doesn’t require holes in the hull).

Nice!!! Congrats

@J Francho’s favorite part. Adds 10-15 minutes to the job

I’ve never been able to even come close to figuring out the rope trick

Congrats!!!

Haha! Yep. You can walk most of the rivers up there, it's crazy

Jerkbait is what I get almost all of them with

I saw that as well. I think Jamie Hartman did very well with it the previous year when the elites came To Champlain

At least we attempt to score points now under huepel, Pruitt wasn’t a fan of touchdowns bama is 1, Georgia 2, Florida 11 and ole miss 20 something. We play them all! Hopefully catch somebody sleeping

I’ve seen it used on Champlain much more than st Lawrence but that’s just observing on TV and YouTube