I can see fish on the sounder but…
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I can see fish on the sounder but…
On the weekend as we played around at Shady Mouth and a few creeks for bugger all
there were literally thousands of fish in some areas.
They were stacked on top of each other from the bottom to almost the top in varying depths of water to 10m.
The next day, they were still there but they looked to be almost vertical (I assume they were head down in the ‘ready to eat’ mode)
Has anyone seen this before?
I assume they were barra but who knows
I tried numerous lures, h/bodies, SP’s deep divers, shallow runners, big and small.
Not a tap
I didn’t see anyone else actually catch a fish the whole weekend (there were some catched but I didn’t see them)
Any tips? (beside stay at home)
there were literally thousands of fish in some areas.
They were stacked on top of each other from the bottom to almost the top in varying depths of water to 10m.
The next day, they were still there but they looked to be almost vertical (I assume they were head down in the ‘ready to eat’ mode)
Has anyone seen this before?
I assume they were barra but who knows
I tried numerous lures, h/bodies, SP’s deep divers, shallow runners, big and small.
Not a tap
I didn’t see anyone else actually catch a fish the whole weekend (there were some catched but I didn’t see them)
Any tips? (beside stay at home)
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
Aye, Shady Camp can be like that, and when the Powertail are broaching on the surface at the mouth it looks like the place is really alive ... but no hits.
And then the tide turns, or some other light switches and the barra come on ... if you are lucky
Did you get any sounder shots?
And then the tide turns, or some other light switches and the barra come on ... if you are lucky
Did you get any sounder shots?
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
Maybe the fish know something that we don"t, like big rain on the way??? .Fingers crossed.
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
This is what mine looks like there if the fish ARE on the go......An occasional fish seems to be coming up to nail something & seem to be moving around with the incoming tide not all stacked on the bottom.On the other hand, an old tri-beam Humminbird I had years ago was a good indicator if they were fair dinkum or not ; If i rocked up to a certain weed bed at Corroboree and the majority of the fish showed facing left ( in the weeds ), it was hardly worth a crack. But if they were right across the screen in that hole, facing all directions on the screen, and at various levels , nearly every time you would clean up. Shady is one spot where you can go mad looking at a screen; most times we stick to our plan if they are barra on the sounder, maybe just moving upriver a couple of hundred metres if we can't lug something up..And we might try a 1metre Halco scorpion among the spread of deeper lures and always run a B52;Makes me wanna go barra fishin!!!!!!..Good luck next lap mate
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Interesting!This is what mine looks like there if the fish ARE on the go......An occasional fish seems to be coming up to nail something & seem to be moving around with the incoming tide not all stacked on the bottom.On the other hand, an old tri-beam Humminbird I had years ago was a good indicator if they were fair dinkum or not ; If i rocked up to a certain weed bed at Corroboree and the majority of the fish showed facing left ( in the weeds ), it was hardly worth a crack. But if they were right across the screen in that hole, facing all directions on the screen, and at various levels , nearly every time you would clean up.
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I think my attempts to get some sounder captures worked. Ill see if I can find em and post here
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
I've seen the same thing at Tommycut, although we only got smaller blue salmon, no barra. Might need to try and target the bigger arches that occasionally cruise through...
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
Take the sounder off simulator
Just kidding mate the amount of powertails/salmon and Jewel Fish at the mouth would astound you.
Just kidding mate the amount of powertails/salmon and Jewel Fish at the mouth would astound you.
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
Yep I would have called it for Salmon and Powertails as well. Mostly there gutsing themselves on almost invisible sized baitfish. Frustrating as hell to see on the sounder and you can waste hours trolling/casting at them for no result.
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
grumpy wrote:Take the sounder off simulator
Just kidding mate the amount of powertails/salmon and Jewel Fish at the mouth would astound you.
Dont worry, I did check that as well
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
see the third one from the right its a meterySeastorm wrote:This is what mine looks like there if the fish ARE on the go......An occasional fish seems to be coming up to nail something & seem to be moving around with the incoming tide not all stacked on the bottom.On the other hand, an old tri-beam Humminbird I had years ago was a good indicator if they were fair dinkum or not ; If i rocked up to a certain weed bed at Corroboree and the majority of the fish showed facing left ( in the weeds ), it was hardly worth a crack. But if they were right across the screen in that hole, facing all directions on the screen, and at various levels , nearly every time you would clean up. Shady is one spot where you can go mad looking at a screen; most times we stick to our plan if they are barra on the sounder, maybe just moving upriver a couple of hundred metres if we can't lug something up..And we might try a 1metre Halco scorpion among the spread of deeper lures and always run a B52;Makes me wanna go barra fishin!!!!!!..Good luck next lap mate
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
Salmon come up on this sounder as a flat stick- funny enough there were heaps of fish on the surface one night at Mullet Ck , so we started scooping em in .The screen was full of flattish long images; and thats what they were....That is the best thing about broadband sounders maybe , that with more echoes per second instead of 1 every 2 or 3 seconds , you can tell a bit more accurately what they are /what is going on....Helps us anyway Nomad.Cheers mate
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Ive finally got around to working out how to download and post the screen shots
here ya go
Not quite top to bo bottom but you would think that one would have a go at my lure.
Is it a fair comment to say that a fish that looks 1M long ( given the scale) then it is a m long?
here ya go
Not quite top to bo bottom but you would think that one would have a go at my lure.
Is it a fair comment to say that a fish that looks 1M long ( given the scale) then it is a m long?
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You should have dragged a big downrigger weight through, then gone back to pick up the floaters
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Re: I can see fish on the sounder but…
Something we should do more of on here - post sonar shots then detail the resulting piscatorial action.
I wonder how a plague of big jelly's (which there are no shortage of ATM) would show up Nomad??
I wonder how a plague of big jelly's (which there are no shortage of ATM) would show up Nomad??
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