Any ideas what these are

GAP · **Joined:** Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:16 pm **Posts:** 223

I was fishing Reeds Bay on Wolfe island and came upon a bunch of this. First thought it was bubbles or turbulence but after a bit, and the fact that I wasn't catching, I figured it was bait.

Any thoughts?

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CrowMan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:21 pm

You called it...baitfish. I'm thinking Shad ??

CrowMan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:21 pm

You called it...baitfish. I'm thinking Shad ??

GAP · **Joined:** Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:16 pm **Posts:** 223

I also thought it was funny that they all look to be swimming up.

Fry Flier · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:39 pm

GAP wrote:

I also thought it was funny that they all look to be swimming up.

Looks like that because it is actually the signal pushing past the body.

Roblin · **Joined:** Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:53 pm **Posts:** 842

A few years ago asked an MNR Tech. what these were. The official answer was, "who knows"?

pdubya · **Joined:** Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:33 am **Posts:** 92

They are not pushing up. What the sonar indicates as the depth of an object is actually the distance from the the transducer to the object. If the object is ahead of the boat, it will get closer to the transducer as the boat moves forward and over it. Thus the object appears to be moving upward when in fact it is stationary.

legacy · **Joined:** Tue May 10, 2005 7:55 am **Posts:** 992

My first though are bubbles. I made that mistake, and sat on a similar view for too long then realized that's what it was.

However, not really seen this in Reeds much but more so with sandy areas.

CrowMan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:42 am

Bubbles appear as straight lines going right up to almost the surface at an angle. Bubbles will always start at the bottom and seem to move to the right since the display prints their location higher as it scrolls.
Keep in mind that sonar images are not frozen "snapshots"...they are dynamic as the screen scrolls and the boat moves. Bubbles don't just sit there suspended in the water column.

polliwogg · **Posted:** Sun Nov 13, 2022 8:51 pm

If they seemed to be moving together, herring.

Fish Farmer · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:33 am

Could be particulate after a storm or a rough few days.

polliwogg · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:42 pm

We got into herring off West point and they looked like that. They were differant from anything I'd seen before as there were so many of them and they seemed to move in groups turning at the same time like you would see in a salt water video. We stayed on them for hours and finally got a 4lb herring on a shadrap, I found out laer thats pretty big for a herring. The other thing is white fish tht are similar to herring but bigger and should be in the area.

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