11-08-2002, 03:48 PM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Thanks for the report. Sorry you didn't get into the fish. Just remember just because you don't see fish on your sonar, doesn't mean there are no fish on the bottom. Most macks hug the bottom and are invisible until you see them come up on a jig. You also have to know what to look for. Lumps on the bottom can be fish. I never run the fish id mode on my sonar. Anything the sonar picks up is automatically assumed to be a fish. You will get a lot more deatailed information running the straight sonar and learning what it's telling you. Also remember that sonar is cone shaped and picks up the first contact and reads that. What does this mean? It means that if there is any slope on the bottom, the sonar picks up the highest point and the lowest point is NEVER seen. We'll be jigging on a very sloped bottom contour, which is very normal to Bear Lake's eastside. The sonar reads, say, 80 ft. You drop the jig to the bottom and have to reel up 4 ft to see it on the sonar! That means that the actual depth is really 84 ft and 4 ft of fish holding area is never seen by sonar! So don't let you fish finder fool you. [/size][/font]
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