Do you ever feel like you mark fish all the time but don’t catch them? Well today I dropped a spoon straight down on this and caught an 18” smallmouth! It Renewed a bit of confidence for me as I typically mark fish and bait everywhere and rarely drop straight down and catch them 

Makes the expense of the electronics worth it.

1 hour ago, slonezp said:

Makes the expense of the electronics worth it.

Yes sir! And my girlfriend bought me the electronics for Christmas a few year back! Haha

Yep feels good. I remember finding my first school. Best 30 mins I had ever had fishing

It sure is neat when that happens. This fall I was smallie fishing with my dad and we would come across schools of about 10-30 fish, I could see them clear as day on my side imaging on the trolling motor. Every single time we’d grab a rod with a tube or drop shot and just toss it to whatever side we saw them on, and it was lights out for a few minutes. 

Have you figured out how to watch your jig using the 2d sonar while vertical jigging? 

Gotta love vertical structure spooning using sonar!

Tom

42 minutes ago, slonezp said:

Have you figured out how to watch your jig using the 2d sonar while vertical jigging? 

Sure have! In fact I snapped a picture of the spoon on the graph just after I caught the fish. It shows up on 3 d sometimes also, like it did in the picture. It seems the water has to be pretty calm for that to happen.  I have always been able to find the fish and drop down to them, it’s the biting thing that seems to be more like 1 in 100. Most of my catching happens when I’m just dragging Texas rigs on bottom. 

You need to remember everything displayed is history, only the far right edge is current. The bass displayed are near the stern so make a lob cast back to get the spoon in front of the fish.

Tom

9 hours ago, WRB said:

You need to remember everything displayed is history, only the far right edge is current. The bass displayed are near the stern so make a lob cast back to get the spoon in front of the fish.

Tom

My buddy always says “take a marker buoy and throw it backwards. Not drop it, throw the /@&)” thing!”