I installed Garmin Live Scope this year and it has finally paid off fishing salt. It was a game changer for Crappie fishing. Mainly due to the fact that Crappie are pretty much stationary in their habitat all year long. So this makes it easier to identify and target them using the scope. Sea Trout and reds are a different story! They are always on the move! Most of the time…
I was able to identify and target the trout on the shallow flat at high tide using my scope. See picture. The small school of trout can be seen at the top of the screen near the upper left corner next to the 6.7ft. The trout were moving but at a much slower pace.
A few things to note….
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The water temp was 49 at 930AM. All hits were small ticks. I had to switch to a smaller Killer to catch the first two trout.
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My retrieve was SLOW. Two Short twitches. Long pause. Pretty much drifting with the current. The tick was almost impossible to feel…picture trying to feel a gnat landing on your line as a similar example
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We fished for two hours before we figured out the bite pattern.
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Some schools fed and hit our lures and some did not. But that changed as the water temp increased.
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I don’t think color mattered. But sometimes it does.
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there were some 8-10blers on the scope. They would not touch anything! This intrigues me! I’ll be back.
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When the water temp hit 52 the bite turned on. We ended up with 27. All were 20 to 22 inches
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The negative tides were key this weekend. The flat is normally dry at low tide and only has about 3.5ft at high tide.
Hope this helps someone….thanks for reading my posts this weekend!
