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Post by bigt on Dec 28, 2013 22:17:10 GMT -5
I'm new to the striper fishing game. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can distinguish stripers on my sonar unit? I have a Lowrance HDS 5 Gen II with structure scan. Anyone got any info regular sonar and the downscan? Also, any suggestions on settings to make it easier to distinguish stripers? Love this forum. All you guys are extremely helpful.
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Post by mwardncsu on Dec 28, 2013 22:36:48 GMT -5
Stripers vs bait or stripers vs other gamefish? Stripers (at least vs bait) will generally show as much thicker and longer arches. Bait will show almost as a cloud or a bunch of very small arches. Depends of course on speed you are moving, speed bait or fish is moving, etc. With the default pallet and 200 freq setting, the more intense returns are larger returns and generally more yellow. With the 83 setting and pallets it uses you get some yellow-greens Striper  Striper on left - bait on right  School of summer Striper on regular sonar at 83  And then same on downscan.  Summer school  Big school over trees  Tons of gizzards  Striper below bait  Of course when fishing for Striper all fish marks are Striper and not something else (bass, carp, catfish), right  Hard to tell - over time you can start to tell with some certainty of its Striper or largemouth - but more from how they are holding to structure and even then it's questionable. I think carp probably show up like Striper. Not sure about catfish - I've read someone say their returns have some "blue" with the default pallet - not sure. |
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Post by bigt on Dec 29, 2013 11:56:08 GMT -5
Thank you. Pictures were very helpful!!!! Appreciate your time.
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Post by mwardncsu on Dec 29, 2013 20:49:26 GMT -5
thanks for catching the accidental "lock" on the thread StriperJohn- moved it from my phone and its easy to hit the wrong selection and accidentally lock it....
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Post by striperjohn on Dec 30, 2013 13:17:12 GMT -5
LOL, that's what I kind of figured. I was just pulling your chain! You do a great job with this site. Thanks for what you do here.
Cheers,
John
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Post by Pete D. on Jan 2, 2014 22:11:55 GMT -5
Ward, heres a shot of what I can assume is some blue cats.  BIg T here is a HUGE school of stripers on 2d that I hit this past august. Pardon me for leaving the fish ID on. Silly me.   Here's how I know.  Anybody have some nice striper schools on side scan? |
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Post by mwardncsu on Jan 2, 2014 22:18:21 GMT -5
Anybody have some nice striper schools on side scan?   Here's how I know...  Last year - Dec 31st, 2012..... wish we'd found that again this year......  This was from today - some roaming pods of striper.... about the same size as the ones in the pic above...  This year we have so much bait in the main channel its hard to tell.... here's a pic of bait from yesterday morning.....  |
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Post by Pete D. on Jan 2, 2014 22:34:07 GMT -5
Sweet, thanks for those!! Beautiful shots of large schools in the column! I have a hard time seeing schools of fish on side scan when they are not in the water column. Do you have any shots like that?
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Post by mwardncsu on Jan 2, 2014 22:41:31 GMT -5
Here's one - we were heading out of a creek after catching bait when we spotted these guys out to the side - we circled back, put out some bait on planers and pulled back in and ended up catching multiple fish in just a few minutes.....  |
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Post by Pete D. on Jan 2, 2014 22:51:39 GMT -5
Siiiicccckkkkkk!!! Thanks a lot man. Wealth of information you are..... I can tell me and this forum are going to get along just fine. Do you guys have the issue of spooking the stripers with the gas motor on SML like we do on Anna? It sure looks like they are busting through a school of bait there! Beautiful shot man. |
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Post by mwardncsu on Jan 2, 2014 23:02:40 GMT -5
I learned from what a lot of folks before me learned and shared........ just ask that folks contribute back as well and all's paid....
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Post by BentRod on Jan 2, 2014 23:24:58 GMT -5
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Post by Pete D. on Jan 3, 2014 8:43:13 GMT -5
Wow bent!! See my issue is when my screen looks like that, Im too busy throwing the net or hooking up bait. When I finally think about taking a screen shot, its too late! I need to work on that though. Those are some serious schools of striper! The one that was the most impressive to me was when it was 93ft deep, and some of the fish were making HUGE 60+ft. vertical runs.
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Post by bigt on Jan 3, 2014 19:45:06 GMT -5
Man. You guys are top notch. Thank all that have posted so much. These pictures are extremely helpful.
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Post by Pete D. on Jan 4, 2014 9:01:25 GMT -5
Man. You guys are top notch. Thank all that have posted so much. These pictures are extremely helpful. Heck yea! This should become a sticky. And we can all continue to add to it. |
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Hard to tell - over time you can start to tell with some certainty of its Striper or largemouth - but more from how they are holding to structure and even then it's questionable. I think carp probably show up like Striper. Not sure about catfish - I've read someone say their returns have some "blue" with the default pallet - not sure. 
Last year - Dec 31st, 2012..... wish we'd found that again this year......
