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How can I tell if it's a bass on front-facing sonar?
To identify if a fish shown on front-facing sonar is a bass, there are a few key factors to consider. First, look for arches on the sonar display. Arches indicate the frequency of the sonar ping bouncing off the back of the fish, which is a clear readout of a fish. Sometimes, the arches may be sideways or incomplete, but they still indicate the presence of fish. In the video, the angler mentions that the arches represent fish, including bass.
Additionally, you can use other features on the sonar display to confirm if the fish are bass. Look for the fish's air bladders on the down imaging and schools of fish on the side imaging. The angler in the video mentions that the air bladders of the fish can be seen on the down imaging, and the schools of fish on the side imaging are not bass, but rather whites and yellow bass. The bass, whether largemouth, spotted, or smallmouth, are shown on the bottom of the display.
It's important to note that identifying fish species on a sonar display can be challenging and requires experience and practice. The angler in the video mentions that determining the species of fish using sonar images takes nuanced study and experience. However, for bass specifically, the angler provides a basic guideline. He suggests that bass on the sonar display will appear as dots about the size of a ballpoint pen tip.
Remember, the information provided is based on the video context and the angler's expertise. If you have any specific questions or need further clarification, please let me know.
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Sonar Basics: How To Identify Fish (Bass, Panfish, and Baitfish) by TacticalBassin → if it's if it's a rock you're looking at or a stump or an actual fish laying on bottom but see this arch right here so what that is that is the frequency that is the the sonar ping from the transducer down and it goes over the back of the fish so arches like this is a perfect readout of a fish sometimes you will go over them sideways sometimes you'll just get half the fish or just kind of a not a not complete readout but these are all fish right here so to an untrained eye you would think that there's just a lot of junk on the bottom but in all reality these are all fish right here and just to confirm you'll see these fish's air bladders on the down imaging and you'll see the schools up here on side imaging again all these are fish i don't think these are bass up here oh they're bass they're whites and yellow bass but largemouth bass or spotted or smallmouth bass are these guys down here again i just wanted to kind of throw the camera up behind the console so you guys can do some idling around with me and just see uh see what these units look like and what to me fish look like so here we go up here suspended so this is the surface zero feet all the way down to 22 and a half feet
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Sonar Basics: How To Identify Fish (Bass, Panfish, and Baitfish) by TacticalBassin → what's up guys tim little welcome back to tactical bastion today's video another electronics video i'm going to bring you guys behind the steering wheel we're going to look at sonar fish id i'm going to show you guys what fish look like so let's jump behind the steering wheel and let's go find some fish one of the questions that we get asked more often than than most is questions about electronics and and most out of that category is what do fish look like how do you know what you're looking at so we've done a lot of in-depth sonar electronics videos in the past we'll link those down below but today i just wanted to do something simple we'll get behind this shade line so you guys don't get any reflection off of the the humminbird unit and i'm just going to idle and i'm going to put the 2d sonar sonar on i can go back and forth with down imaging side imaging but mainly 2d so you guys can see what i interpret as fish and their positioning that sort of stuff but uh let's jump behind the console idle around and let's go find some fish and uh really dive into what they look like on 2d sonar all right so now we are behind the console this is actually a solex humminbird solix 15. so i i normally have it set on the side to uh to run side imaging
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Identify Bass on Fish Finder in 3 Easy Steps! | Fishing Sonar Basics by Fish the Moment → know with down imaging and with side imaging you're gonna see dots 2d so in areas the arches I feel like I'm repeating this point a lot but it is a point of confusion for a lot of people so I wanna make sure it's super clear because it's really important to understand the rest this video and for being a successful offshore fisherman who reads their fish finder so now that we know what fish look like on different types of sonar we next have to differentiate the species of fish using clues in the sonar image and this takes a lot more experience a lot more nuanced study of an image to determine which species of fish you're actually looking at but I do have some basic guidelines that will help you identify bass from other species and we're gonna focus on bass in this video I'm not going to get into all the nuances of identifying other species of fish all I want you guys to learn from this video is how to determine if the fish are bass or if they're another species of fish so the first thing I'm going to do when I'm trying to determine if a dot is a bass or if it's another species of fish or something else entirely is look at the size of that dot and my rule of thumb is that bass are going to be about the size of when you take a ballpoint pen stick
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Complete Guide To Video Game Fishing | Sonar, Tackle, and Areas Explained by Fish the Moment → determine if these lines are bass just by using your 2d sonar but there are ways you can actually identify which species of fish is on your graph by using some clues and I'll get into that in another but for now just take my word that these are bass I dropped on these fish and caught about 15 spotted bass and largemouth mixed off the spot and again sometimes only way you can tell it's just by dropping on them and seeing if they bite and there's one thing I do want to make sure it's crystal clear that every one and it's that you can't judge how far away from the boat fish are by using these sonar images and that's one of the most common misconceptions I see with new video game fishermen to think okay the transducer of the tongue lawyers up here in the top right and then there's a group of fish over here on the left side of the screen these fish must be directly behind the boat and so I can just pitch my bait behind the boat and I'll be able to catch those fish well that might work when your boat is moving at speed and you're graphing over the top of like offshore structure while driving your boat but in this image my boat is actually stationary it's not moving and so because my boat's not moving the only way these fish are getting underneath my
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Sonar Basics: How To Identify Fish (Bass, Panfish, and Baitfish) by TacticalBassin → to uh reset to factory and that will that will erase all of the mess ups or the things that you might have changed that you don't know how to back out of when i first started doing this playing around with all these different settings and stuff you know you go down that rabbit trail and sometimes you get lost you just have to completely start over so hit that factory reset um or don't hit factory reset because if you have waypoints that will delete a lot of your stuff but you can go back and reset your settings for your sonar to factory so again let's go let's try and go with this other side of the ledge over here and see if we can find some fish up on the top so we get some real distinct arches on the bottom so we've already seen school of fish we've seen a handful of fish on bottom glued to the bottom on the break a couple fish right there nice one so those fish that are only like two feet off the bottom those are definitely catchable you know you throw a drop shot or a lipless crank or a jig texas rig worm something like that those fish will follow that bait down to the bottom if they're wanting to eat and uh big dude right there again these videos are always so tricky to do to not get the reflection
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Sonar Basics: How To Identify Fish (Bass, Panfish, and Baitfish) by TacticalBassin → right here 12 to 15 feet or so you have four or five fish to spin it together nice big arch down here there we go so this is more fish now we're in a ton of fish right now and the lake that i'm on most likely these are either big schools of whites or yellow bass sometimes they're crappie or bluegill but the majority of them are whites and yellows the cool thing about this fishery is you can catch big largemouth mixed in because they eat those little guys so again this is your surface this is the depth we kind of jumped up here on the this hump let me get back into the creek channel a lot of times that's where these fish are going to hang out they're going to hang out right on the break of the creek channel let me whip around real quick now there's lots of things you can do to uh to play around with these units they really get them dialed in you can you can change the frequency you can change the frequencies you can change the sensitivity you can change all this stuff but a lot of times if you just plug them in go with the standard settings that will get you started that will give you a good enough picture and then you can really dial it in when you're out on the water but just going with your your standard
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