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Location: Eagan, MN | Last fall, JLong and I found a ton of deep water musky suspended with some bait. We floated directly over dozens of muskies in this area and yo-yo'd our baits in their faces when the opportunity presented itself. Out of dozens of fish that saw our yo-yo'd presentation, only three struck. Was the fact that we caught so few of these fish relative to what was there a lure presentation failure? Or, as JLong suggested at the time, a shortcoming of our downward looking, traditional electronics? He surmised that the fish were getting turned-off by the close proximity of the boat directly over their heads. For the fish suspended higher in the water column, that might have been 10' or so. In this example, could those fish have been spotted on a 360 degree transducer, allowing us to present a lure to them from a greater distance? I'm hopeful that the answer is 'yes', but need to have (what we call at work) some independent, third-party validation. Is anyone using their side imaging/360 capabilty in this way?? Could we see a fish, say, suspended 10' down over 26' of water, for example, and cast directly to the fish? Would we know what depth that fish was holding at if 60 feet off the port side of the boat? These are musky-specific questions I'm seeking to answer.
Brian |
