Mastering The Art of Forward-Facing Sonar for Bass Fishing 

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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

It is neat isn't it? Good luck to you!

Thanks!!

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!

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Sweet! I am going to do some more similar to this. Have been getting a lot of positive feedback. 👍🏽

Good deal! Thanks for watching 👍🏽

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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.

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 👍🏽

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

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.

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

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.

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 👍🏽

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 …..

Yes sir! Go have some fun with it 🤙🏽

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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.

Yes sir!! Thanks Stan 👍🏽

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!

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

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Great! Will have more coming

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.

Yeah sorry to here that. I do not fish tournaments, I fish for fun.

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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.

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.

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 👍🏽