What a terrible day to try a water trip. Friday was bad enough with horrendous boat traffic, but Sunday? Beautiful weather and everyone wanted on the lake. Even the Rockland Creek parking lot at the ramp was so full of parked cars that I could hardly manage the launch. The newly taped back up camera on the topper window helped. Again, I backed the trailer close enough to the dock to step across to the boat. This day, I wasn't into fishing, though I did take one down rod and a casting rod along with my tackle box just in case.
Again, ran the TM 150 with medium chirp on the Simrad with the networking turned off. Ran structure and navigation on the Lowrance. I'm sure I can't run the HST-USBL wide angle transducer and the TM 150 simultaneously even though each is on a separate display. Identical signals are involved. Structure operates on a different frequency than the TM 150 or the HST wide angle (I call it broadband).
These shots were at various locations. On some, I tried to toggle the coordinates in the screen shot by bringing the cursor on screen. Then, toggling the "clear cursor" to go back to the active scan.
Lots of small fish in shallow water, some larger on the bottom in the above shot. The lower shot shows much larger fish, but not deep enough to be stripers. OTOH, could be fish feeding on a broken bait pod? Surprised the surface temp is quite high at 89.1 degrees.
In the lower shot, the boat is slowing as there's too many marks in the column. No clue as to what kind of fish, yet, in a depth zone that could be catfish or stripers. Notice the drop in surface water temp.
More marks (lower shot) at higher speed and slowing to reveal what is obviously white perch due to the stacking. Some larger marks on the bottom are likely catfish.
The lower shot was made to show the GPS coordinates. Pretty shallow and likely catfish. Some stacking that might be white perch.
The lower shot may be feeding stripers as the depth seems right and the surface water temperature seems lower.
The lower shot was taken to show the GPS coordinates of the above shot.
I decided to shut the TM150 medium chirp off and see what the HST-USBL wide angle echo on the Lowrance HDS9 gen 2. Obviously, I needed lots of tweaking to get arches that mean something. However, I see some things I wasn't seeing with the TM 150. The fish marks are on and show the depth of each fish. I see the thermocline at 30 feet. The shot is magnified (lower left says 2X) and the actual is shown in the narrow window to the right. Other settings are shown in the far right window.
I think the above and below shots are consecutive with the lower showing the GPS coordinates. Might have moved on a bit while trying to get the shot recorded.
Obviously a bait ball with GPS coordinates and magnified 2X.
Nothing needs no explaination in the above shot. The lower shows what might be some pretty large fish?
Well, that's it for the report of the Sunday screen shots report. Have to do a lot of tweaking on both units to make good use of the data.
At the dock, I got the boat tied up and backed the trailer close to the dock. Could have stepped across and hauled the boat out, but Mel said to call for her help, so I did. She arrived with a cup full of ice and a can of Lemon O Rita. Took about two swallows to finish the liquid and then the trip to the house to devour the ice. At the house, I looked in the SD card case and the micro for the Simrad wasn't in it. Had to ask Mel to get the card from the desktop and bring it to me. Wives are wonderful! She puts up with a lot of my shit, that's for sure.
I might get the drain fitting on the bait tank resealed with caulk and fill it today with our well water. I'll add a tablespoon of calcium chloride and 3 cups of rock salt, a tablespoon of "shad keeper" and let the aeration run over night. Need to get an aquarium thermometer so I can compare the shiner temp with the bait tank. Trying to keep several 2 liter bottles frozen to help with the bait tank temperature. Yet, my diabetes insulin shipments contain many gel packs that I should be freezing to use as they should be much more efficient than water. Maybe fill the 2 liter bottle?
