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Porktown
I spent a half hour playing around with my new side imaging too.  Another 50 hours of messing around with it and maybe I will figure out how to use it in a way that will help catch fish...  I swear, I watch videos and think that I am completely following it.  I get it running on my boat and it is like someone hits me in the head with a baseball bat, I turn into a complete idiot 

 


Porktown, I don't want you to feel like the Lone Ranger on the electronics. This'll be my third year with my 'Bird Helix 7 SI/DI, and I can screw it up so bad I have to get my son to straighten it out enough for me so I can at least see the bottom! I even carry the instruction booklet with me but I am hopelessly cyber stoopid.

I have that same unit. I never use the SI/DI. My next one will have GPS and Sonar only.

We went to Pymie today. Dead flat, clear as a bell sky and not too much traffic. Needless to say, 1 eye, 1 jumbo perch and a baby tiger musky. What a brutal beating that was today😵‍💫

pensfan1
I have that same unit. I never use the SI/DI. My next one will have GPS and Sonar only.

It was a Christmas present from my wife and son. Replaces my 561 black & white w/GPS, which when and if I scrape up the jing for a front trolling motor, I'm gonna mount the 561 up front. I do like seein' in color though, (once I get it figured out). I can even screw that one up what with the GPS, waypoints, split screen, etc. At least both can tell me how fast I'm goin'.
 

Tim, The bite was slow up my way this evening -- early night. Still a day or two away in the area. Talked to 2 kayakers and they didn't even get a bite. Ended up with 4 Perch a 16" LM and 9 Crappie. Plenty of small baitfish along the shoreline that had grass / weeds. All the fish were very good too great size on the Perch and Crappie so that was nice. Probably cause the Shiners were very big? Caught everything in the weeds.
 
 
  Still have to figure what fish finder goes with what boat yet...
  
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 If I head out late morning gonna leave the bait behind, throw soft plastics in the weeds and have a fish basket by my side. Much easier, save time and should have better results. The live bait is a must have for me after dark for Crappie though. 

Gettin' some thick ones this year. I see guys post them up all the time but for me a 12"er was only a handful a year for Arthur. The few times out the last few years 12" -- 14" were more common for me.
 
  

Nice fish Crappie.
We are gonna hit Pymie again this weekend before this cold front comes through. Probably out of Jamestown this time.

I wanted to head up for the week but the old lady and my son didn't want to go. Hope to wade tomorrow sometime for a bit at Arthur. RC up north end is loaded this time of year if looking for Panfish. A 12" +++ Crappie is very common for there.
 
 
Good Luck
 

The Harmer and Tarentum docks are in. I didn't fish this weekend, but my Starcraft got a new trailer so that was fun. 

So the big storms that were supposed to come through here never materialize. Little rain off and on from 430 till about 7. A friend of mine (🐷) hit me up about 10ish and we met out the lake around 11. Fished 3 or so hours. 10 keepers with a couple brutes. Was a bit windy and with the impending "doom" coming, we bounced around 2. 68° surface temp. It gets any warmer and they will vacate all the shallow bays and transition to pre spawn structures.