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It's that time of the year to be spending some time looking for fish in deeper areas of the lake!
In the hottest part of summer, spotted bass will often either suspend in deep water or almost plant themselves on the bottom. This image was captured on July 19, 2020 with the water temperature approaching 90 degrees. In the image, a group of fish (3 to be exact) were seen on the bottom.
Upon dropping a jigging spoon, a fish was hooked and reeled in. Note that in the image, two more fish follow the hooked fish. These two fish follow the hooked fish up to about 15' before breaking off their ascent and they both head back down to the bottom of the lake. In the lower right sonar pane, it is obvious that there are some more fish on the bottom. In this case, the fish that was hooked was landed and was an 18.25" spotted bass.
The right hand (map) side of the image indicates these fish were basically off the end of a secondary point that falls into deeper water. The fish were on the bottom in 63' of water. The symbol "SL087" indicates that the spot-lock function on the trolling motor was engaged as soon as the fish was initially hooked, allowing the angler to stay over top of this school of fish. The other symbol (WP08) indicates a waypoint was marked on the other side of the point - fish were caught here also in basically the same depth.
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