02-14-2015, 09:10 PM
Went out yesterday (Friday the 13) to do some fishing and enjoy this awesome weather. Got to the wash and netted some 3 inch shad and went fishing. First time out with my new fish finder. Was pretty jazzed as I have never really had one. Didn't catch a fish till nearly 11:00 am and needed more shad. Got another bunch of 3 inchers with a couple 6 inchers. Caught four more fish in about an hour. Went back for more shad and this time about 20 six inchers and one 8 inch Threadfin shad. biggest I have ever seen. Thought it was a gizzard shad but inspected closer and it was a giant threadfin shad. Ended up with six stripers and lost a couple at the boat. As far as the fish finder I am learning. The obvious advantage is when the chart shows zero fish after 15 minutes or so its time to move. We only caught fish when the chart showed fish. I am posting a pic of the screen where we caught most of our fish. What I don't understand is this just one fish moving or actually several different fish? We also learned that the fish finder is no "magic wand" but definitely a useful tool that I need to understand just what its showing me.
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