Tennessee Todd
Moderator
Kirk said:The new electronics are so much better than what we had 10 years ago. If you can read the electronics and learn how the picture on the screen relates to the boats current position, you can find fish. You have to spend time looking at it to understand what it is showing you.
I remember the old flashers and graphs. They are like comparing the old Pong video game to the modern video games.
Yup. The other evening I was looking at a side scan over a group of baitfish and I could tell the fish were feeding. We were fishing in about 40 foot of water, but the fish were feeding in about 20. We backed off, I casted my A rig and counted it down to 20 feet and BAM, a fish murdered it. It turned out to be a 10 lb catfish but it was cool to actually know there was a feeding fish in that spot and know actually where to throw to catch him. I wish I could get better at determining what is bass vs. other fish, but I can't tell yet. The guys that are really good can tell what is bass and what is feeding etc. It's pretty cool to fish with someone who can pull up to summer holes, turn on the side imaging and electronics and tell whether the fish are biting or not. If not, they move on.
That's way above my experience at this point, but it's pretty cool to learn that stuff. As Kirk said, alot different from the old flashers. But I tell ya, some of the old timers were really dang good at the flasher and still use them.