| This fall King taken in the Straight of
Juan De Fuca probably weighed in around 40 pounds. "I
barely had enough time to look at my fishfinding screen, an
X-85, when this brute gobbled up my offering in the first
five minutes of fishing", stated Captain Bruce Evans.
A white flasher with a bluish green squid right around 100'
deep did the trick. The "Marlin Monroe" had a great year of
fishing, and we owe it all to our trusty Lowrance
fishfinder. With six large Chinook, two hooknose
Coho's and two dozen Pinks, the late summer salmon bite was
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| Captain Todd of The Shad Taxi Striper
Guide Service captured these Sonar recordings
(using his Lowrance X15) on striper fishing
trips. |
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Ice Fishing Adventure on Lake Mille Lacs near St.
Cloud, Minnesota. |
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Danny Stout of Owasso, Oklahoma with his
grandchildren, Jaden, Lauren, Brooke and Jennie - and a 38
pound striper. Danny was fishing on Beaver Lake with
Big Dog Guide Service and caught the striper with the
assistance of a Lowrance X-15MT. |
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Kent, Mark and Steve catching barracuda
and yellow fin off the southern California coast near
Catalina Island..
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Steve and Dale land a 137 pound Alligator Gar fishing the
Trinity River near Dallas, Texas with guide Capt. Kirk
Kirkland.
Capt. Kirk uses a Lowrance LCX-104c to find deep holes
in the river where they catch these giants.
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Wreck Fishing Sonar
Recording
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a sonar recording obtained by Prostaffer Russ Symons
from a 27' sport fishing charter boat off Lizard Point,
Southwest England in August 2004. The boat runs two
Lowrance LCX-104 units. The boat is drifting over the
position and the LCX-104 is detecting the wreck and the
fish activity around it. The unit is set on 200 kHz,
upper limit at 200 feet (66 meters) and lower limit at 290
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The Wreck
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1. Wreck - see how the unit is separating the
structure from the bottom itself
2. Bottom - yellow color indicates soft bottom
ground, probably sand
3 & 4. Shoal of Pollock - these are very active
fish as they are suspended above the structure
Notice how each individual fish echo is detected even
though the fish are in a shoal formation.
SLG file post processed with the following
settings: ASP off, Sensitivity 93%, Colorline
75%. Upper limit 200 feet, lower limit 290 feet to
concentrate all available pixels in a window of 90 feet
(29 meters). This increases the resolution on the
area within those limits.
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Fishing the Wreck
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1. Shoal of Pollock
2. Jig and sabikini feathers dropping and
rising
3. Straight jigs dropping and rising
4. Hooked fish being played up towards the
surface
5. Sandy bottom
The fishing takes place either directly onto the wreck
structure or close in, in the lee of the wreck. Anglers
onboard caught 30 Pollock between 8 and 21 pounds.
The LCX-104 units helped in locating the wreck,
controlling the drift and at monitoring the drops of jigs
amongst active fish.
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I caught this thing the other evening
while trolling for Walleye. Surprise!
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Submitted by JD Abshire
My walleye trolling rig consists of a 7' Eagle Claw
glass rod, a Quantum big iron reel, 100 yards of 18# test
lead core and about 20 feet of Berkley 14# test Fireline
for leader. My wife Debbie and I were at Philpott
(Virginia) marking several big bait balls in 10-15 feet
of water with big arches near the bait. I put a
homemade worm harness/spinner on both rods with a live
crawler on my wife's rig. I had picked up a pack of
the Berkley GULP in sinking minnow, chartreuse/pepper
color and just had to try them so I strung one of my
rig.
We pulled through the bait and arches which were 10-15
feet deep over 30-35 feet of water when I heard a whack
which was the sound of my rod tip hitting the boat, my
rod holder straining and the drag singing. I
thought I was hung up on something. I stopped the
boat and pulled some line off the reel so I could get the
rod out of the holder, but before I could lift it out,
the line got tight again and started jerking real
hard. I said to my wife: "Debbie I'm not hung,
something's on there." I finally got the rod free
after I loosened the drag quite a bit. I tightened
back down on the drag and tried to put the brakes on this
thing, but when she made her first big run I felt truly
helpless. She made a total of six runs. I saw
where the leadcore joined the leader five times then
disappear. Every time I saw it I thought to myself,
did I wrap that uni-knot 4 or 6 time? When did I
change the leader last? Did I use 12 or 17# test
for my snell? Boy, I'm glad I just tied on a new
swivel. You know what I'm talking about. By
this time Debbie had been holding the net in the water
for at least ten minutes. She kept saying, "If you
bring it over here I'll net it and throw it in the boat,
you've just got a big 'ole walleye." I said "This
ain't no walleye. You might net it, but you're not
going to throw it anywhere."
I finally got some leader on my reel and started
feeling a little better, I was almost counting the
inches. First thing I saw was a big blue-gray head,
then the rest of her. I kept pulling and finally
lead her to the net. Debbie scooped her in but not
up. I put down my rod and we both heaved the thing
over the side. I really don't know how long it
took, but it was around 8:20 p.m. when I first hooked
her, and we used flashlights to put her in the
livewell. I left both aerators running all night
and changed the water the next morning. I took her
to a catch and release catfish operation. She
weighed in at 44.5 pounds, 42 inches long. I
checked on her today and she's doing fine. I would
love to be there when some 10 or 12 year old gets her on
the line.
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Pierfrancesco Salvatori with another spear-fishing
adventure in Italy
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| Mike Childress with a 34 lbs. striper caught on the
lower Illinois River in Oklahoma |
Deep Water Recording in Corsica
Richard Colchen is a great fan of extreme
deep water fishing. Using an electric reel and
braided polyethylene line, he can send bait down to 3300
feet (1000 meters) to catch wreckfish (same family as
grouper) and six-gilled shark.
Richard uses a Lowrance LCX-104c with an
HPDFX260 transducer with FB260 faring block. He
recorded some amazing deep water detection in July 2004
showing the positioning of his boat above a 400 feet drop
off located between 2900 feet and 3300 feet. At the
bottom of this structure Richard caught a 150 lbs
six-gilled shark on the first drift and a 50 lbs
wreckfish on the second drift.
The image below is an extract of the slg
file post processed with the Sonar Viewer.
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A = Boat speed 4 knots
B = Boat in neutral drifting over structure
C = Solid bottom echo in 3346 feet (1104
meters)
The arrow is pointing to the top of the structure
at 2900 feet (957 meters.)
Settings: Sensitivity 91%, Colorline 80%, Ping
Speed 75%, 50 kHz, all manual settings. ASP at
normal setting.
Sea Conditions: excellent, flat and calm
Recording taken in North Corsica
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Steve with a 20 pound, 33 inches long King Salmon
caught on the 4th of July off the southwest shore of
Vancouver Island. |
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Tony and Lance with an Alligator Gar
It is a great benefit having a Lowrance locator.
By using the LCX-104C, we were able to locate the fish in
deep holes. All we had to do is wait for them to
come to the surface.
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