11-06-2010, 09:00 AM
I had the pleasure of fishing with Hummingbird Product Manager, Adam Broughton. Adam and I were doing some field testing and sonar recording with my Hummingbird 997 SI. We were on the lake from 8a-4p, a couple of hours of our day was spent riding and recording w/ the SI. We got some great footage with the SI of the underwater timber, brush piles, gravel bars, boulders, etc, etc..... I&#39;ve had my unit for 2 years but have primarily used it for locating cover/structure. I&#39;ve always used traditional sonar to locate schools of bass. Today Adam and I were able to locate some really nice schools of spots with the SI. It&#39;s great to see that HBird actually have fisherman working in office, Adam is no office rat, he can catch em.<br /><br />We boated approx 20 spots today. If we would have stayed with the drop shot today we could&#39;ve caught another 20 or more fish w/out question but we were on a great big fish bite today and decided to leave the 2lb fish alone Our best 5 weighed well over 20lbs. Big spot of the day weighed 5.28 (weighed on Cul-M-Rites), we had 2 other spots over 4, and 2 other 3&#39;s along with a lot of other solid keepers.<br /><br />All our fish today were 20-30ft deep caught on Drop Shot wacky rigged Cane Sticks, Grubs, and Fish Head Spins.<br /><br />Here&#39;s just a few of our pics from today. Adam will come back and post some of the other pics he took with his 50lb camera LOL. These pics were taken w/ my Blackberry.<br /><br />LB