How to determine from which direction the fish came from?

[slipperybob]

(not from just down below ya)

Okay, maybe there's no way of knowing unless you've got an underwater camera...but if you don't, how?

When we catch fish, we've always thought that they fight and swim back into the direction from where they came from. To some obscure way to thinking we move that direction and find more fish. Well maybe it's not so important to find out from where they came from but where they're going. You catch one and they try to swim in the direction of where they're going. So which is it?

[Orlip]

C: all of the above

[mojocatt]

Hmmm, sounds like a mythbuster.

I've always been told that when fishing for crappies you watch the direction the bobber goes and you can home in on the school. When the bobber goes straight down, you're on target.

Then again, depending on how much of the 12 is gone, you could always interrogate them.

[MuleShack]

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Then again, depending on how much of the 12 is gone, you could always interrogate them.

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LMAO!!!

[CNCMike]

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I've always been told that when fishing for crappies you watch the direction the bobber goes and you can home in on the school. When the bobber goes straight down, you're on target.

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That is what I have always heard as well. And to this point in my life, it seems to have held true.

[BobT]

Aren't they always swimming in the direction they are going?

Couldn't help it.

Bob

[Grant Pearson]

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Aren't they always swimming in the direction they are going?

Couldn't help it.

Bob

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that what I thought too!!!!!!

[SnipeZilla]

Set up a hole on each side of the hole you just got the fish out of. Logical? Or if you have a small space between you and another house and you're both catching....see where I'm going? Or just get a friend with a Vu.

[mojocatt]

I've got a old copy (held together by white glue and duct tape these days) of Ron Schara's Mineesota Fishing Guide and that's what it says in there. The bobber direction is where the fish came from.

I've watched a few of those underwater cam clips, and that seems to be the direction they go after a hit.

As to where it was going before that.....

There is a small area in the In-Fisherman Critical concepts Walleye books (I think both 1 and 2) about a radio tracking study on some walleyes during ice season on Ten Mile Lake a few years back.

[Sonicrunch]

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Then again, depending on how much of the 12 is gone, you could always interrogate them.

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I don't think they would mind waterboarding.

[slipperybob]

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Then again, depending on how much of the 12 is gone, you could always interrogate them.

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LMAO!!!

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ROTFLMAO!

just reminded me of Finding Nemo. You know how to Whale talk? In this case crappie talk?

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See that 12V battery, and I've got these two wire end clips!...get the idea! LOL's

[aquafang]

I heard one time as the fish leave the flasher, you start swinging the transducer around in a circle pattern in the hole and you will pick up the fish in the direction they are leaving. Also and old duffer told me what he would do in the summer is once he caught one he'd tie a line to the fishes mouth and a bobber and the fish would return to the school and he'd follow them around all day. I've never tried it because I'm sure it is illegal now.

[MuleShack]

I was thinking more of bill murry in caddy shack...but replace the gopher with the crappie...

[slipperybob]

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I heard one time as the fish leave the flasher, you start swinging the transducer around in a circle pattern in the hole and you will pick up the fish in the direction they are leaving. Also and old duffer told me what he would do in the summer is once he caught one he'd tie a line to the fishes mouth and a bobber and the fish would return to the school and he'd follow them around all day. I've never tried it because I'm sure it is illegal now.

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Yeah, tagging is illegal...except for those researchers with permits.

[Hotspotter]

Swinging the ducer works great, but I've found the best way to monitor a school of crappies is to simply drill lots of holes and move often. Eyes will many times will come right up the break towards dark, and away from shallows to deep water in the morning as the sun climbs; but crappies relating to not much of anything out in the open can be tough to predict.

Joel

[Dances with Walleye]

Yeah the only way you'll be able to tell is by trending like where they're being caught.

A fish that's trying to run can be running in any direction for a host of reasons... Especially if there's Adjacent deep water or a weedbed...

Doesn't mean he's going to or from any place... Just means he's looking for cover from whatever it is above him that's got his mouth.

If you set a line of tip ups out you'll find that the Tip up on the outter edge will get hit the most often because it's the first one an aggressive fish may encounter... So you could set up a semi circle of Tip ups with your buddys and take data... But then the pattern changes through out the day... You'd spend more time collecting data than you would catching fish.

It would be better to simply get good at finding productive structure on a map/GPS/Reading Tea leaves.

[DzNuts]

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Then again, depending on how much of the 12 is gone, you could always interrogate them.

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I don't think they would mind waterboarding.

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Hahahaha!!

I'd say give them some beer to loosen them up but that would be alcohol abuse. Not happening in my home.