Montana Smallies: Fun morning on a crystal clear smallmouth lake. Caught and released about 25 fish all caught on dropshot… homemade bait and 3.5 flatworm. Tight lines to all. On photo...

JB134 Loc: Montana

Fun morning on a crystal clear smallmouth lake. Caught and released about 25 fish all caught on dropshot… homemade bait and 3.5 flatworm. Tight lines to all. On photo 3, you can see an entire school 20-25 ft down following my hooked fish. So cool 😎

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

JB134 wrote:

Fun morning on a crystal clear smallmouth lake. Caught and released about 25 fish all caught on dropshot… homemade bait and 3.5 flatworm. Tight lines to all. On photo 3, you can see an entire school 20-25 ft down following my hooked fish. So cool 😎

Awesome job JB! Who needs a forward facing sonar, when the water's so clear you can see the school. Beautiful pictures buddy.

JB134 Loc: Montana

Fredfish wrote:

Awesome job JB! Who needs a forward facing sonar, when the water's so clear you can see the school. Beautiful pictures buddy.

Lol. My FFS found those fish 👍

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

JB134 wrote:

Lol. My FFS found those fish 👍

Don't they also show on your chirp or downscan ?

JB134 Loc: Montana

Yes if over them.

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

JB134 wrote:

Yes if over them.

I've never seen a FFS image that was anywhere nearly as defined as regular sonar. It always looks like appearing and disappearing dots and lines. I guess that's why users are always staring at the screen (like a millennial with a cellphone), so they don't miss the images.
I saw a guy drag the side of his boat against a big boulder, while staring at his screen, a couple weeks ago.
Keep up the good work and pictures buddy.

JB134 Loc: Montana

The difference is substantial. The FFS is live, where the 2D is not. The images do come and go at times due to fish swimming or sinking down in the weeds. But the real advantage for me is seeing structure out in front or side to side you would not of seen with standard sonar. It basically eliminates water that I don’t need to cast at. Seeing fish is frosting on the cake. It’s not everything but I’ll take all the help I can get.

RuffplayOR57 Loc: Klamath Falls, OR

JB134 wrote:

Fun morning on a crystal clear smallmouth lake. Caught and released about 25 fish all caught on dropshot… homemade bait and 3.5 flatworm. Tight lines to all. On photo 3, you can see an entire school 20-25 ft down following my hooked fish. So cool 😎

Awesome pictures JB. The School shot is very cool. I’ve seen a large mouth or two following a fish I have hooked back to the Boat, but never seen a school before. Good catching, and thanks for sharing those pictures with us!

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

JB134 wrote:

The difference is substantial. The FFS is live, where the 2D is not. The images do come and go at times due to fish swimming or sinking down in the weeds. But the real advantage for me is seeing structure out in front or side to side you would not of seen with standard sonar. It basically eliminates water that I don’t need to cast at. Seeing fish is frosting on the cake. It’s not everything but I’ll take all the help I can get.

I wish I just had a unit that would give me depth and temp.
I don't even have a depth finder anymore that works.
I'm just OLD SCHOOL all the way.
Glad I know the waters I fish.😄🤠👍

Jeremy Loc: America

JB134 wrote:

Fun morning on a crystal clear smallmouth lake. Caught and released about 25 fish all caught on dropshot… homemade bait and 3.5 flatworm. Tight lines to all. On photo 3, you can see an entire school 20-25 ft down following my hooked fish. So cool 😎

Lure looks like it’s got whiskers. Nice picture of the fish. Looks like maybe a catfish is down in the lower area but awesome to see them. When I Sm Mouth fish many times a school of fish seem to be trying to get the bait ( fake rubber or worms ) out of the fish that is hooked. Throw another line in when they are chasing to steal the bait and usually can hook another ( buddy with rod ) to decide if it’s dinner fish or going back to school with its buddies.

Jeremy Loc: America

saw1 wrote:

I wish I just had a unit that would give me depth and temp.
I don't even have a depth finder anymore that works.
I'm just OLD SCHOOL all the way.
Glad I know the waters I fish.😄🤠👍

Is good to be familiar for sure. With line counter I sometimes drop a line to bottom as depth finder.

JB134 Loc: Montana

Jeremy wrote:

Lure looks like it’s got whiskers. Nice picture of the fish. Looks like maybe a catfish is down in the lower area but awesome to see them. When I Sm Mouth fish many times a school of fish seem to be trying to get the bait ( fake rubber or worms ) out of the fish that is hooked. Throw another line in when they are chasing to steal the bait and usually can hook another ( buddy with rod ) to decide if it’s dinner fish or going back to school with its buddies.

Trust me. More than once did I hook those followers 😉

Ridleyblake2017 Loc: Honesdale Pennsylvania

Awesome pictures and nice v smallies. How do much leader from the weight to that flat worm?

NJ219bands Loc: New Jersey

Nice 👍

Whitey Loc: Southeast ohio

JB134 wrote:

Fun morning on a crystal clear smallmouth lake. Caught and released about 25 fish all caught on dropshot… homemade bait and 3.5 flatworm. Tight lines to all. On photo 3, you can see an entire school 20-25 ft down following my hooked fish. So cool 😎

Very cool JB, there's some big fishys in that school 👍 thanks for sharing man