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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.
Whether you consider bacon a breakfast staple or basic food group, I think we would all agree that just about everything goes better with bacon! In all of its salty, smoky, and porky goodness, bacon is something that speaks to our inner hunter-gatherer.
Why make your own?
If my BFFs could read, I am sure they would have been hounding me about the date? They do have a scent for these sorts of things.
I did a bit of digging around in the corners of the internet but couldn’t sniff out much on the source of the holiday.
I asked the BFFs, but they just looked at me? Tails just a wagging! Anticipation for something, maybe an extra biscuit or two on their special day?
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.
February 20th is known as Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day!
Hootie Hoo knew?
Actually, I ran across this holiday by accident while doing a bit of research for another holiday.
Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day is a copyrighted holiday from the folks over at www.wellcat.com. To celebrate this holiday, you are to go outside at high-noon and yell “Hoodie-Hoo” to get rid of those wintertime “blah’s” and get ready for spring.
I didn’t know that an “average joe” could create a holiday? An interesting thought for consideration.
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to try more craft beers!
I especially wanted to try more hometown and regional brews, –those craft beers from Virginia.
As I thought more about this goal, I thought it would be cool to award myself some sort of merit badge, maybe one for every five new craft beers? I have yet to find something that might pass as a cool looking craft beer merit badge. That is something I will continue to look for!
I have been shopping around for a new compact camera that would stand up to outdoor elements. You know, the rain, the cold, getting wet and so on.
The camera I have now is the Pentax Optio WG-2. I purchased it some time ago, –but I have not been happy with the image quality of this camera.
I am a point-and-shoot guy. Getting a shot of that big fish my buddy caught or maybe a deer spied along a riverbank, there is not much time to tinker with settings. It has been a set-and-forget, on automatic, letting the camera figure out what to do.