Category: Fishing

I have posted this update to my fish finder cone angle chart to include the specifications found in the PiranhaMax 175 manual. You might find this table handy for your own research.

Let me know if you find this chart useful or you want other angles added?

I finished my research and have chosen the Lowrance Elite 3x as my best fish finder after looking at the Humminbird PiranhaMax 175 and the Garmin echo 301c offerings.

As a reminder, the cone angle determines the coverage, or footprint seen by the fish finder. A wider cone angle means that the fish finder will see more of the bottom.

For me, this is important because I do tend to fish shallower areas from a fishing kayak or a canoe. Why have a fish finder if it will only see a few inches of bottom coverage (narrow cone angle).

I am evaluating fish finders. I have mentioned in other posts that most of my fishing is done in fairly shallow water. A lot of the local rivers and ponds are brackish and tannin stained, — read that I cannot see the bottom.

What I have learned thus far in looking over the product specifications is that the fish finder manufacturers do not measure cone angles in the same way. I see these comments echoed by others while doing my research.

But, I needed something to compare the various fish finder cone angle specifications and resulting footprint! Just what would I be seeing? A few square inches, a few feet, what?

I thought that this might be some useful information to share?

Today’s post is about how to fish crankbaits.

There are a good number of ways to fish them. Today, we will cover two of the more popular methods.

Spring Fever? It is time to get out and restock that tackle bag for some early spring crankbait fishing.

The local ponds and lakes in my area are still frozen or slushed over; old man winter is still hanging around. When that thaw starts, I want to be ready to get out fishing and see what might happen.

Old Man Winter might just be giving us is last one-two punch of the year! The snow and ice from last week’s winter storm is giving way to a somewhat warmer and rainy weekend.

Does he have any remaining tricks up his sleeve?

For me, it is time to start thinking about getting outside and catching some fish!

I don’t know about you, but every time the weather warms a bit I get the “itch” to get outside for some of that quality rod and reel time.