Mastering The Art of Forward-Facing Sonar for Bass Fishing
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- I share techniques and drills to get better at being proficient while using forward facing sonar!
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I’m going tomorrow practice dropping on them no tourneys around here so I go practice northern Kentucky thanks for info love how you tryin teach lives scope to us
Make the trip down to Lake Cumberland. We go down every few weekends during the winter and usually do very well on either big smallmouth or numbers of spots.
Scan for the balls of bait in and around the mouths of the creeks and find the bass nearby. We usually use cranks and ballhead jigs, but this year, I'm going to try to snipe some with a demiki or paddle tail.
That’s great! Appreciate the feedback. It takes time and practice for sure to get better with it. A lot of dedication
Catching every fish in the lake can't be good for the next fisherman that can't afford it
I am not sure how to take this. I know the livescope is costly and fishing can be expensive. If you could not tell I am fishing in a 16 year old boat. I am using some reels that are 15 plus years old. One is 20 years old. You can choose where to use your money and I know some great fisherman that still catch fish in flat bottoms, boats with 50 hp motors, and no electronics at all. Just make fishing the best you can and what you want it to be 👍🏽👍🏽
FFS does not equal “catching” anything. Your initial thought is the greatest myth regarding FFS.
Be well.
O so should we all drive junk cars cuz not everyone can afford nice ones? What a stupid statement. And u aren’t going to catch every fish in the lake with livescope hotrod
IF you saw how many fish are in every lake, you'd never even have this thought. Go with a friend who has livescope and just see how many fish are in every inch of the lake. Also, I can find thousands of fish (crappie) and fish them all day and only catch 15-17. FFS doesn't make them bite.
Love the FFS videos
Appreciate it 🤙🏽
Same
Great! Will have more coming
Good stuff Jimmy thanks a lot
Appreciate it 🤙🏽🤙🏽
Like hunting using a drone with infrared...
Yeah but I can shoot and kill right away. Fish may not bite the lure when placed right/ worked 🤷🏽♂️
@@TheFishingCoach It would be fun to use i am sure and learn a lot about the bass movement and finding them and other species as well. I am sure it does add a lot of confidence knowing that the fish are there. Love to fish just don't have the means to on a lake. Used to do a lot of pond fishing when i was younger. I do get out and fly fish once in a blue moon it's just relaxing being outdoors on the water. 🎣 Good luck 2 u..,
Yes sir! It does not put em in the boat but for sure helps with efficiency and learning. Made fishing more fun for me because of the learning aspect. Good luck to you 👍🏽👍🏽
@@davidlargen31 Keep fishing whatever waters you can. Probably 20 years ago when just fishing streams and abandoned farm ponds, I ran into a property owner. Fast forward 20 years and he is now one of my very best Friends. Oh, and he had his own pond stocked with smallmouth bass right in the middle of acres and acres of corn fields and woods. It is a magical, peaceful place I can go to any time of the year.
My point is: Just grab a rod/reel and a few baits (wacky rigs, spinner bait, 4” & 5” Senkos) and go fish.
I got on the computer and used Google Earth to see the closest water near me and started fishing farther and farther. I have a ton of waters that are productive. You will too.
One other farmer I met in my roaming used to let me fish his abandoned pond till he sold the property.
Regarding FFS: So many myths about how “it just catches fish”. Rule 1: If someone says this, know they are a liar or never used FFS and are just a puppet for someone else who never used FFS.
Be well.
I'm considering purchasing a live scope/down imaging side imaging unit in the near future. Really like watching your teaching videos so I know how to use it and operate it. Thanks for the information and education. 👍🇺🇸
That’s great! I hope to help people like you and others that have it. But I have had people that do not have livescope ask me how it is like so I want to teach / show. Appreciate ya!
It’s cheating. It’s like deer hunting without the woods to hide the deer.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. In hunting you get to shoot the deer. In fishing … you still have to get them to eat. If it was like shooting I would have a wall full of DDs 🤣
With this logic is like saying a trail cam on a deer trail is cheating. 😂
Absolutely
Legalized cheating…you guys are ruining the sport of bass fishing. The fact that this crap is allowed in tournaments blows my mind
@@MaaaanWhatTF couldn't agree more
Great video! Good stuff.
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Since front facing sonar came out I stopped watching bass tournaments, nothing to learn here. Boring
And I hardly watch anything to do about fishing anymore. Nothing to do with modern day tournament fishing relates to the fishing I do at home anymore
Great videos!!!
Appreciate it 🤙🏽🤙🏽
Kohler Shores
Thank god I’m not a tournament angler man. If I had to contend with this in order to compete, it would sink me into a major, existential depression
Yeah sorry to here that. I do not fish tournaments, I fish for fun.
Excellent video! I considered myself good at finding structure with FFS but not as good at targeting individual or groups of fish that are suspended or even on the structure with FFS. Thanks for a good video and some things to try on my next trip!
Yes sir! I need to make a video on targeting single fish / groups of fish. I have been catching them doing this in recent months but making a full video with teaching would be good. I do this in my electronic on the water lessons. Takes a lot of practice to be able to cast and not look up.
Do one on rocks
Great! Thanks for recommending. I caught fish today on bluff walls with livescope. It would of been great for a teaching video. I will have footage for an upcoming video once I get it edited. Thanks!
The only way you guys can catch a fish?
🤣🤣🤣 I caught fish for 14 years before FFS
The only Folks who ask things like that have never used FFS.
Best not to be a Puppet for someone else who told you not to like FFS but to find out if FFS is for you.
But, there is a steep learning curve that starts the moment you begin to research FFS, determine what FFS unit you want, what wiring, layout, boat modifications you will need to do and then begin the install. Then you have to learn all the settings, and the most common troubleshooting problems you will encounter. Then you have to COMMIT to using it so you can “dial your mind” in understanding the technology. Then you have to learn to cast to the targets you are seeing. Forget about “catching” until you master this last step. Now you are ready to choose the technique and lure you should use your catch the fish.
Finally, you just have to learn to swing all these fish that will be jumping into your boat! Not!
It is a huge amount of work and requires a serious commitment to learning FFS. Probably $4-5,000 in expenses for the transducer, black box, graph and dedicated lithium phosphate (LiPo) battery.
For many who have FFS, I am not sure it is worth it.
Be well.
I have fished much of my life and FFS is a Tool. Sometimes I use it, most times I do not as I fish ponds, streams, lakes, the Gulf of Mexico and the Ocean.
A little preachy today?Let me ask you a question. If you hire a kid off the street to run a bulldozer with gps and grade control and he digs a straight smooth line. And you hire an old salt who can cut grade by eye with an old dozen from the 50's who is the better operator?Fishing is supposed to be fun. Not a job unless you are a pro. Lean you waters and fish. It has served me well for 58 years.@@muskietime
@@bradwetzel3217 Just tried to Educate You.
Wanting everybody else to do something the way you do it is petty, selfish and dare I say…. well, never mind.
FYI: I have a Friend who’s 20’ish year old son jumped on a bulldozer and did an unbelievable job grading a site around a pond. The pitch was absolutely perfect!
The only other observation I will share with you is that 20 years ago, it was expected that the youth would be selfish and demanding that the World conform to their wishes. I have been saying and your words proved it that even the old Folks today are whining and demanding everything be their way! They used to mind their own business but now they cry more than the youths?
Final thought regarding your age: When you get say a decade older you will then realize your time on Earth where you can physically fish is quite limited. Don’t hate on us older guys who just want to see and learn things we never thought we would be able to see and learn.
I know I can not help you see something from a different perspective. That is the highest level of knowledge. Again, my observations of Folks learned that years ago. While I want to say it’s good you fish but I prefer to say “Get off my Lawn,”.
Ha, ha.
Be well.
There should be fisheries that allow FFS and those that don't so anglers that want to fish the traditional way can do so without having to compete with FFS anglers. Or better yet FFS anglers should just save themselves the trouble and stay home playing xbox.
Interesting comment! I like your feedback but this is nothing like X box. Today I played with my FFS at Lake Hamilton from 9:30 to 12. It got up to 95 degrees. No wind, I caught fish and had a great time. Only reason I left was to come home and do computer work. I never played X box or Playstation since I was 16. When I did, I was on the couch in the AC..... never in the heat or outside for that matter
Good Video but FFS should be banned this is not fishing reminds me of watching my son play his video games
Thanks for sharing. I played video games some when I was a kid. I remember winning the heisman trophy 20 times in the old NCAA game. If this was a game I would have over 20 DDs. Now I am in arkansas and it OH Ivie either 🤣. Appreciate your feedback 👍🏽
The "art" of ffs?? Give me a break!
Of that Kit Kat bar?
0:50...I can't condone somebody uses their FFS with the goal of not having to look up away from the screen while casting... I use livescope, I love it, it helps me improve my skills, but man I can't get behind using it the way a lot of bass fishermen do. Which I find is a result of the tournament directors allowing it in competition. It's simply not regulated correctly.
Use it in practice all you want to improve your technique, but FFS in competition turns fishing tournaments into easter egg hunts. If you're watching FFS "while" casting, you have to come to terms with the fact that you wouldn't stand a chance in traditional tournaments. Which is where the case settles for me, as a recreational fisherman, I want to be a better fisherman, not somebody with tournament level livescope skills. If you're catching more fish without it, you're using it right, if you're simply catching more fish and never turn it off let alone "look up", you're crippling yourself as a fisherman. IMO
Thanks for sharing your response Robert. Last year I captained a HS team where we got second and had Big bass... it was a personal best for the student angler. We never turned the livescope on.
FFS has changed tournament fishing for sure. I am not going to get into that. For me FFS has helped fishing be more efficient and catch more bass. I made this video to help other anglers improve their skills with FFS. Have a great day! Thanks for watching.
Try some live bait.
I don’t fish with live bite
I been using ffs for 7years it’s just comes to you one day bout a season learning curve for me fishing 4 days a week
Nice!!
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Any hunting using thermal imaging…you have removed the sporting and ethical factor…
Whats the point? Fishing is for fun…sport, challenge…its called fishing, not catching…
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A lot better than a unboxing. I have the same problem they just don't want it ! Even with live bait some days can't get them to bite aggravating. But it's just like spotlighting deer right. HaHa 😀👍👍👍👍👍
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I was surprised it wasn't instant catches when I got AT2. But 2 yrs later, I still love it . I get way more value with a pole mount.
Thanks for sharing! Yeah people also get surprised when I go in their boat and do the lessons when I catch them and they do not cast well or work the bait right. They see it takes practice. You can use it for a many of ways too! Thanks for sharing about the pole mount. I prefer it on the TM
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Fish are not mammals. But like your effort.
Thanks
Fake Fishing Society- FFS
Never heard of it that way! Thanks Mark. Have a wonderful day!
I notice your voltage is 12.4. Is this normal for you, or does it start out higher? Mine starts at 12.4, which I think it should be higher aaon a freshly charged battery (grp 31).
So at this time my battery was starting to go low. I typically run 12.4 to 12.6. I now have a small lithium that runs my livescope only. It stays 13 for most of a trip.
Lol, "the art" of ffs
Yes. A great title.
What are the markings in between your boat and the brush pile (starting on the bottom at 10ft going up and out to 25ft)?
This can get called different things but it is a ghost tree. For a while I would have this show up randomly on trips. It is a interference and it can be adjusted with settings. I still had a good picture for the footage so I was not going to mess with it 👍🏽
I just got my tail handed to me yesterday by DC on Mitchell with the livescope and I already have one but am not proficient with it. The tip on the Alabama rig was spot on and will try it today.
Yeah DC is on fire right now! Good luck to you. Just try to spend as much time with it every time you are on the water
Very informative. Would hate to be a professional angler tournament but for me and dad on the lake , this seems like a pile a fun, more like a hunt .
Appreciate the feedback! It sure does make it more fun. Mostly more efficient on the water. Get to pull up to structure / cover and know if bass are there. If they are will they bite? That is not always the case. Fun learning and seeing how they react and etc.
Even lately….. we are catching bass sitting in 20-40 ft. Catching them in 10-30. They like to come hang out under the boat after a few get caught …..
I need you to explain something. I was watching BassMaster Elites, Lake Fork this weekend and they were showing the pros with their livescopes depth at 30 feet, yet they were in less than 10 feet of water. Why?
So I like to at least have 10 ft more then the depth I am fishing for most of time. My guess is they were fishing a variety of depth and did not want to change their depth limit for the shallower stuff
If you keep the depth steady, you can more quickly determine the fish sizes.
Gd vid boss. What unit do you recommend for the drop shot game and ffs?
Appreciate it. And I know this can be costly but all of the units work great with it. Now each unit / transducer in it self can be different … for sure I would recommend the 34 over the 32. On the units I have an older non touch gpsmap. It works great. The new non touch are legit but are costly. The ultra’s I have seen a lot of and they are great too. Easy to use as well. I would recommend a 9-12 inch screen depending on budget. If you have any more questions or want to talk on the phone. Find my FB page “Jimi Easterling Fishing” and shoot me a message 👍🏽
Just bought my first FFS ever. This is SUPER valuable to me!! Thanks for doing it!
Yes sir! Go have some fun with it 🤙🏽
Great information. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!!
Thanks for teaching this...yes more
Appreciate it! I have a few new ideas that can be similar to this. I am getting positive feedback and I am all about teaching / helping other anglers
Love this video
Sweet! I am going to do some more similar to this. Have been getting a lot of positive feedback. 👍🏽
Very helpful
Good deal! Thanks for watching 👍🏽
I’ve waited and waited and I pulled the trigger and got it, I’m more fascinated watching the unit just see how fish react to your lure just amazing to me. I just want to say if you’re not scoping your just hoping 😂
It is neat isn't it? Good luck to you!
Nice video again, Coach. Keep them coming!.
Yes sir!! Thanks Stan 👍🏽