thanks for the tips Al
Hopefully if I make it down again I'll have riggers on the boat to make it a bit easier to get deep.
I'm using a HumminBird 587 sonar, I just got it in the spring so I'm still working on fine tuning to get the best readings and interperating what is on the screen.
cheers,
Jim
Trannyman1 wrote:
Hey Jim, all I do is blood knot in a 150' section of 30 lb. Gig Game and it solves the problem.
The Kings are mainly below 75' now and after 9 am when the sun gets higher in the sky they are way below 120'.
If you are going to stay with the dipsys you should get a couple mag Jensens with the big rings. You can get down to about 115' with 280' of wire out. I know because I have bounced them off the bottom.
Fleas do show up on the sonar but not how you think they do. They are not in schools like bait fish. They are suspended all thru the water column. A good sonar unit will also mark mud lines and current shears besides the thermocline. When the ministry first sampled the water for the new phenomenon know as spiny water fleas they found that there were 9 million organisms per cubic meter of water. I have had the StrikeVision on the boat when the fleas were bad and once we got the camera below 47 degrees water the picture was much better because there were less fleas below the thermocline. But in that band of 48 to 58 degrees visibility was terrible. The fleas help to mark the thermocline much easier.
Hope this helps.
Al