![]() But they are always on the verge of being competitive. I think we saw this for years where we would mark a big school of fish offshore on side scan, and then we would throw at them a bunch of times before one would bite. It’s survival, making sure they get it first so their buddy doesn’t get the last one. ![]() I think at this point, it’s not even impulse that’s making them bite. You put two or more fish together and get a bait in front of them, suddenly one of them has to have it. While gamefish are curious and impulsive, they are uber competitive. The easiest way to get a curious single bass or crappie to bite while watching on LiveScope is to do it in front of his buddy. It’s happened to me hundreds of times now with both bass and crappie.Īnd the crazy way in which a seemingly uninterested fish, charges out of nowhere and clobbers your bait on LiveScope never gets old. Both looked like food, but one made the fish react when the other did not. I’ve also had several times where you switch from a swimbait to a jerkbait and get bit. It’s interesting to note their curiosity gets them more than their stomachs do. I have seen firsthand how curious the fish are, how they follow, how they roll on a lure and turn off it just as quickly. It had all the food in the world to eat, and it did not react until my lure made it react. When my bait got down there, however, thumping and twitching in the fish’s face, it impulsively reacted. They were not feeding, just hanging out near the bait. I have pulled up to fish around big schools of bait and worked my bait down towards them and they react to it and bite. With real-time sonar like LiveScope, I’ve found that “sometimes” can be replaced with “most of the time.” As we get better at fishing, we realize we’re sometimes just agitating a fish into biting. When we’re kids, we just assume all animals eat because they are hungry. Here is a quick rundown of the things I found out about fish this season watching them react to lures realtime on my units. It is a tool, that if you put a lot of time and effort into, will improve your knowledge and your fishing. LiveScope and forward looking sonar is not a magic device that will load the boat with fish. I knockout about 50 books a year on top of travel and a heavy workload.īut I think being a student of tackle, technique and technology is why some get so much out of their electronics and some can barely turn on their units. If there is a subject I want to improve in my life or learn more about, I read. If I get a new lure, I spend countless hours figuring out what it can and cannot do well. If something new comes out, I read every piece of material I can on it. This year, I have been reinvigorated with fishing and learning. What I didn’t realize was how much I would learn about fish from it. So I thought I was pretty fluent with the technology before this season. I have fished with many great anglers with LiveScope and the original Panoptix. I have used Garmin’s electronics in the past, in fact my first boat had Garmin units on it back in 1997. This year was my first full season running Garmin electronics and my first full season running LiveScope. ![]() I feel like I’ve had an open window into their world and it has profoundly improved not only my bass fishing but my crappie fishing even more and just my general knowledge of fish habits. LiveScope has taught me so much about fish behavior this year. ![]()
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