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- From: marv.bloom@rose.com (marv bloom)
- Subject: Sonar, etc.,
- Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:34:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.043431.9816@rose.com>
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- Date Entered: 12-22-92 23:31
- R(:From: rpark@stam.QE.Bell.CA (Richard Park)
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- R(:I consider fish-finders useful. I don't own one personally but have used
- R(:them for certain types of fishing. I am planning to purchase one in the
- R(:near future. One of the reasons is that on certain lakes that I am trolling
- R(:I am suceptable to snaggs and these lures fetch a hefty price nowadays.
- R(:Another reason is that salmon and trout on large lakes are at a certain
- R(:depth of water (suspended) and god knows that I'd be dragging my lure
- R(:across "dead water" depths. However, marking fish does not mean you will
- R(:catch them. We were marking 50 fish a minute all day long but did not
- R(:catch a single thing and there has been times when we would get hits
- R(:without marking anything. I find fish-finders useful for fishing at the
- R(:best depth possible. Without it I would be lost.
-
- I'm by NO means an Expert Fisherman but Sonar is a tool and it takes
- experience and knowledge to make use of said devices. For shallow
- water APPS, one is looking for structure (drop offs, mid-lake humps
- etc) for BIG Water applications (I fish for Salmon/Rainbows and (ECHH)
- Lakers on Lake Ontario).
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- Suspended fish are inactive (Marking them BIG HOOKS sitting on bottom
- more or less informs the intelligent fisherman to head into port and
- uncap a Brew or two and think about the next day...;-) ).
-
- When "working" big water, we're looking for schools of baitfish since
- Salmon won't be too far away. Rather than looking for big inverted
- V's, would rather see horizontal "-"'s as these are Feeding Salmon (we
- call these echoes "streakers"). It's quite common to not "mark" a
- thing and have one's rod release and the drag SCREAM as yards of line
- are peeled off.
-
- Said schools of baitfish are in the thermocline and that's exactly
- the area that we're trying to present our lures and work. I've had
- rainbows hit the lure while it was in the propwash (as I was spooling
- out), so Go Figure..............
- (Lake Ontario 'bows go up to 25lbs)
-
- Not a definitive answer but in this Hobby, there isn't one.
-
- Season's Greetings to All Net<Fishermen> and Please Practise
- CATCH & RELEASE. The Future of our Fisheries depends on that.
-
- Marv
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