07-09-2009, 05:24 PM
Many thanks, TD. I'm reading it now...
... and got to the part where you mention sonar allows dropping a lure to the right depth. Hummmmm. You know, only once have I ever caught a fish as a direct result of a fishfinder. My Eagle Cuda (242, I think, not a newer 300) will show a fish at, say, five feet. Almost invariably I'm just starting a long retrieve, so I hurry it back, then slow and try my best to position it five feet down when it gets close to me. Nothing. Then I'll lower whatever I've got on my other three poles -- spinnerbait, crank, swimbait or t-rig crawdad. Still nothing. So to me, the fishfinder shows me depth, temp and somewhat bottom structure. Maybe I should launch a new thread to ask this, but what better should I do?
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... and got to the part where you mention sonar allows dropping a lure to the right depth. Hummmmm. You know, only once have I ever caught a fish as a direct result of a fishfinder. My Eagle Cuda (242, I think, not a newer 300) will show a fish at, say, five feet. Almost invariably I'm just starting a long retrieve, so I hurry it back, then slow and try my best to position it five feet down when it gets close to me. Nothing. Then I'll lower whatever I've got on my other three poles -- spinnerbait, crank, swimbait or t-rig crawdad. Still nothing. So to me, the fishfinder shows me depth, temp and somewhat bottom structure. Maybe I should launch a new thread to ask this, but what better should I do?
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