So I figured I would try something new and head out to PA-32 (North Edisto Near shore reef).
There is supposed to be old army tanks, concrete, 110 and 150 ft barges. According to the DNR site I entered all the coordinates, zoomed all the way in on the plotter and was unable to find a single thing. My track on the plotter was kinda funny after 2hrs. circles and circles, up and down, back and forth. Nothing.
In only 30ft of water are most of these items burried now? I would think they would be really obvious. Is my GPS way off?
I’m running a Humminbird 383C from 2008. It’s pretty basic but should have shown something.
Are there any tricks to finding these sunken items? Are the GPS coordinates as acurate as they should be or are they just kinda close?
Are the other near shore reefs easier to fish?
Thanks,
No, they are not buried. We were down there a month or so ago and got right on top of some structure that was 10-12’ off the bottom. We checked out most of the coordinates and found the structure on everything we stopped on. We were in by brother-in-law’s boat with a lowrance elite5 dsi. The biggest piece of structure we found was about 150’ from the buoy back towards the inlet.
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Thanks tigerfin,
My GPS had me several hundred yards south of the bouy.
I think I’m going to need a new fishfinder. The GPS seems to be off (if thats possible) maybe I’m just an idiot, it only shows fish between 5 and 18mph, and the water temp sensor stopped working.
Yep, probably time for a new one.
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I was out there lat summer with my father-in-law and we found structure pretty close to the buoy. He didn’t have coordinates plugged into the GPS so we rode around until the fish finder found some structure. We anchored up and caught a bunch of small BSB. Good luck!
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thanks seshaker. I read somewhere that the bouy was placed far enough away that you couldnt anchor to it so I was doing pretty big circles. As always - over thinking stuff and relying on my GPS (electronic gizmos) too much.
I found the same issue at 4KI at first. Consider the size of a tank compared to the ocean. It’s not much bigger than your boat.
I’ve only been out that way a few times. I mark on the GPS when I find stuff. The next time I go out, that spot isn’t spot on. So I’d agree that the GPS isn’t all that accurate.
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