So I finally have a decent sounder but not really sure what I am looking at.
1st pic I think is seaweed of some sort with some bigger fish
2nd not sure what the arcs are but guessing bait school
Thoughts?
2nd shot - looks like hard and soft bottom with fish hanging off the hard bottom (rocky ground). To me it looks like there is bait fish amongst fish swimming across the beam, or your drifting. Others might think differently.
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Thats all hard bottom,the thickness of the yellow indicates this.Originally Posted by Almako
The thinner it gets normally indicates it's sand.
As for the area you have circled indicating hard ground I reckon its growth,I could be wrong and there are better people on here at reading sounders.
I have seen fish hold tight on the bottom and some species show similar to that.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Mick
My money for shot 1 is a school of bait fish holding tight on the bottom.
As for shot 2, you have transitioned from ground with minimal to no life - flat rock or dense sand at a guess to what I would term "live bottom" (bottom with growth or coral that scatters the return a little and can contain fish - the thicker fuzzy line that Almako has circled) with mobile fish (hence the incomplete fish arches) . There has been little change in the thickness of the actual bottom return so the bottom hardness has not changed significantly - generally a harder bottom returns more signal than a soft one and shows a thicker return.
Of course if you hadn't blurred out the GPS coordinates we could check it against our own personal marks to confirm our thoughts
Yes we're drifting. Quite quick at that stage as I forgot the drogue. Also forgot boat key but luckily I keep the spare on my car keys'
A book - How to use an echo sounder by John Adams - available from Oceanic Tackle and Marine in Perth is apparently very good and is now again on their shelves again.
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In the first picture directly below the 'W' in weed I see a tiny little man, he looks like Elvis to me.
^^^^ I'll have what he's been taking
Got this book and quite good for the novice like me.
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