Making Adjustments to Catch Fish

I met Don and John at 8:00am on 10/02/06. The weather was great and the water was smooth as we headed out on the Chesapeake Bay. I wasn’t guiding this trip, at least for the first hour, until I volunteered to check all adjustments on Don’s fish finder. The gain (sensitivity) and view (signal return speed) needed to be put in the manual mode and adjusted, allowing a readout where one could identify the difference between bait and larger fish. I stayed at the helm for the rest of the trip to refine the adjustments and to keep us from fishing in locations that weren’t holding any fish.

From viewing white perch on my Lowrance fish finder I knew we were on them shown at this location. The ones caught were pretty fat. White perch school up tight and normally appear attached to the bottom.

An excellent way to check the adjustments is to drift over some fish under working birds. You should view baitfish and larger fish. The larger fish shown here were striped bass and blue fish.

And the proof is in the pudding!

Special Thanks: To Don for allowing me to enjoy guiding him and John on his nice 19’ Twin Vee Catamaran. What a sweet riding fishing machine.

Fishing Tip: Take the time to learn how to set up your fish finder to maximize your fishing (catching) time when you're on the water. The automatic setting on these units, as they come out of the box, needs to be changed to make this possible.

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