08-28-2016, 07:14 PM
Thanks [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/community/community.cgi?do=user_page;pg=user_profile_view.html;username=wiperhunter2"]wiperhunter2[/url],
I went and got the boat late last night and it does come with an older fish finder. Hummingbird 100sx. I also have a Hummingbird Fishin' Buddy. It has a simple down looking beam, but also has a sideways 10 degree cone that goes from about just below the surface with the other edge of the cone looking about 10 degrees down. So I have some help. (Although I don't really believe in using them as 'fish' finders. Those new things with that side view that almost looks like a picture could be different.)
Illinois does allow live bait and so does the Start Preserve with the strip-mines where I plan on doing most of my fishing.
I was going to do flippin' for bass in those bushes, but you're right, that could be a good place for crappie. Right now I'm not too sure about how to get a lighter crappie size lure down in there, but we'll see. I've been mostly away from fishing since about 1988. I suppose I could even get live bait close by the bushes.
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I went and got the boat late last night and it does come with an older fish finder. Hummingbird 100sx. I also have a Hummingbird Fishin' Buddy. It has a simple down looking beam, but also has a sideways 10 degree cone that goes from about just below the surface with the other edge of the cone looking about 10 degrees down. So I have some help. (Although I don't really believe in using them as 'fish' finders. Those new things with that side view that almost looks like a picture could be different.)
Illinois does allow live bait and so does the Start Preserve with the strip-mines where I plan on doing most of my fishing.
I was going to do flippin' for bass in those bushes, but you're right, that could be a good place for crappie. Right now I'm not too sure about how to get a lighter crappie size lure down in there, but we'll see. I've been mostly away from fishing since about 1988. I suppose I could even get live bait close by the bushes.
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