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Is this a good spot? I'm might target some bass and crappie and wondering if that ross island slough (east side of ross) will have some salmon or steelhead? Im happy they have the two rod legal for salmon till july!
bass said:The slough certainly looks like it would be a good bass spot - especially a winter spot but I have never heard of anyone plunking there. I guess that either it is that since RI is only accessible by boat that if you have a boat that there may be better spots to plunk or it is a super secret, zipper lip, hot spot
DrTheopolis said:I believe people troll the east side for springers (never done it myself). I couldn't tell you about depths and distances, though. But heck, if you're bass fishing, might as well chuck a plunking rig out there, too.
bass said:I guess you are fishing from the East riverbank and not the island itself then. I thought you were referring to fishing off of the island itself.
You can see the depth of that channel from the Navionics maps: http://webapp.navionics.com/#@12&key=aqrtGfrtkV
If you click the little circle on the bottom left and then select sonar charts you can get a finer resolution (although sometimes inaccurate) look at the depths. I usually flip back and forth between the two views and kind of average them together in my head.
DrTheopolis said:Man, you guys. If I'm on a boat, and the depth finder mostly works, I'm happy.
bass said:I just have the crappy built in maps on my HB597. I only look at the charts on my PC before I go out and fish. One thing that bugs me about he sonarcharts is that a lot of the depths seem way off on the Willamette. The water is well over 100' deep around George Rogers park and up by Hogg Island and they are off by a good 30-40'. Also, they show the bottom coming up to about 30' deep in that section which is way off. The normal charts seem more accurate in that region.
I wish I had one of the new garmin units that creates the topo map while you are on the water. Just drive back and forth and it creates a map with 1' contours. That seems really cool.
pinstriper said:My Hook 4 came with the nav+ card, but I havent used it yet. Are you guys getting those views on your FF, or just on the pc ?
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bass said:Well, my excuse is that I have a PhD in electrical engineering, I am fascinated by the new technology and have a built in desire to have as much information as possible at my fingertips.
tbrinks said:Not sure about the Willamette, but the SonarChart data is being updated everyday and will adjust. As far as the live mapping, you can do that with Navionics with their SonarChart Live. I have done it with my Lowrance HDS gen2s and the wifi module and also with something called the T-Box from Vexilar connected to my Navionics app. It's awesome and I have mapped some tiny lakes that are in the middle of nowhere.
pinstriper said:Dr. Theopolis, meet actual Dr. Bass.