Echos from a transducer?

[flysndie]

While recently fishing L.O.W. we had a fl-8 & a fl-18, being used at booth ends of the shack,with a 3rd person in the middle with no locater.We booth had our gains set at 1 or lower. The guy in the middle had very few bites,using the same jigs,bait,presentation ect. Is it possible for the fish to feel the echo on there latteral line causing them to be spooked to go between the locators??? Just a thought.Any opinions on this matter?

[Cliff Wagenbach]

My guess would be that the 2 people on the ends caught the fish before they made it to the middle guy.

I do believe that when fish have been really pressured by fishermen that your sonars will spook them at times.

I have found them in a new hole and by the time I can get a line down to where they were they have all dissapeared!

If I pull the transducer out of the hole as soon as I spot these fish, they will still be there when I get a line down to them.

This is a very rare happening though!

Cliff

[Deitz Dittrich]

Cliff- I have noticed the same thing... And agree that it has more to do with pressured fish. Matter of fact if I am hole hopping looking for fish and spot fish on my finder I will turn it off till I am ready and have my lure half way down the hole then turn it on again..

On days when I seem to be catching more fish on my dead stick rod I will turn my flasher off at times as well... and seem to at times get more bites.. However, I have no way of proveing this.

[ASMOLEY]

Is there any evidence that fish can even detect sonar? Just wondering.

[icehousebob]

One of my sons loves to use his FL18 but he refuses to use it for trout fishing. He's convinced that trout are sensitive enough to feel it. He's a lot better fisherman than I am, so he might be right.

[efgh]

I read in some publication, maybe Infisherman or some other mag. that a fish caught with the use of sonar posibley could become hook shy, the article didn;t give any scintific reason for this, just the authors idea that the fish associated the sonar pulse with the getting hooked thing. On another note, while sight fishing did anyone else ever notice when a pod of fish enter or get close to your bait and one of the bigger ones looks at it and shys away all of the bigger ones do the same, I noticed this fishing sunfish.