Vertical Plankton rising

[Guest]

I saw another post on vertical plankton inhibiting the ability at times to fish after dark making fish and your lure hard to distinguish on the Vex.

I have had the same problems. Has anyone tried an S-Cable at all for this? Does a 9 degree ducer help over deeper water by reading less area in turn picking up less plankton? Need some ideas,

PCG

[This message has been edited by PCG (edited 01-14-2003).]

[Guest]

A 9 degree ducer...That sounds like it might help some.

Any other views?

thanks, Westlin

[Guest]

A 9 degree would only make it worse. Unless you can get the plankton to swim out side your 9 degree cone. Its kinda like putting on your high beams in a blizzard. In my experience, I have found the only way to combat this problem is to turn the gain down and increase the size of your jig if you can get away with it.

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[This message has been edited by D-man (edited 01-14-2003).]

[gill man]

I agree with D-man. If I understand how an S-cable works it wouldn't help much either, because you still have to turn the unit up high enough to read your jig. If the unit will read the jig, it will be turned up high enough to read the plankton schools. I've fished a murky lake a couple times that has the clutter on the screen all day long in 35' of water. All you can really do is use an easy to read bait in the largest size possible.

gill man

[Guest]

D-man is right, the 9 degree will only make it worse.
Were I fish the water is stained and the bottom is mud/sand. When the sun goes down the plankaton startes to rise to about 10' off bottom in 40' of water. The only way that I have found to decrease the number of plankton on your vex is to up the size of your lure and turn the gain down.

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[Guest]

thanks a bunch guys. I appreciate the input.

PCG

[Selmer]

I believe the saying goes that ignorance is bliss. Before you had the sonar you just fished and knew nothing about the plankton, right? I'm pretty sure they aren't thick enough to stop you jig from falling through, just fish through the plankton and be happy that you found time to be on the ice. This should not prevent you from fishing in any way, shape, or form.
Selmer

[Guest]

Thanks for the ideas guys.

So a dual beam ducer would be the best bet for all conditions? Deep water (over 30ft.) it gets hard to see my ice jigs for panfish. A 9 degree must concentrate the power then?

thanks, Westlin

[Guest]

I have a dual beam and am glad I have one. But if the plankton gets thick you want to switch back to the 19 degree side because it is like highbeams in a blizzard as D-man said. It all comes right back at ya.

The only bad thing is the $89 I had to fork out to get one.

Good luck,

Scott

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[Guest]

Yes, narrower cone with less coverage but more detail.

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[Guest]

Yes narrow=more power.
And sometimes the plankton gets real thick were a fish that is on the outside of the cone you cannot see b/c of the plankton.

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