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Another technique associated with jigging, speed reeling or anchovy fishing over a school of stripers is that if you have more than one fisherman in the boat is to keep a hooked fish on the line until one of the others hooks up. A fish fighting the hook will attract other fish and have a tendency to keep the school under the boat longer. Once another fish is fighting your partners hook you can land your fish and get your lure back down for another fish. I do not use a net unless the fish are really big. If you can get it swimming toward the boat and not diving you can easily swing it into the boat using the fish's swimming momentum to avoid dead lifting it in. Chuck
 
Dworwood said:
View attachment 29473This is not a great picture of an active group. Someone coined the phrase “wolf pack” or “hunting” school and if you find a school like that it is the best fishing lake powell has to offer in my opinion! A friend of mine used to tease me about a wolf pack and had never seen that on his screen until we were in the SJ this year and after about 30 minutes of all three of us being hooked up continuously he became a believer. The screen will be full of active fish and you just drop down and work your lure as described in the above posts and it is better than boils! Most times found under a boil or where one just happened. We don’t find them every trip but if you find them it is great fishing until they leave you. @Littlesaltwash took a picture of us one time and we had 5 fish on at once. You will know a wolf pack when you see one so stop and drop a spoon as @wayne gustaveson has described many times and hold on, it is the the best it gets in my opinion! Good luck, I hope you find a “wolf pack” this fall!
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I recently got a new boat w/Helix 9 (and have much to learn). I typically use this same split view. However, in the settings I rumbled, bumbled, stumbled across Fish ID, which results in fish being displayed in the left 2D pane (as opposed to colored lines). Curious if you are unaware of it or just don't care for it. Humminbird Fish ID system
 
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phinzup said:
I recently got a new boat w/Helix 9 (and have much to learn). I typically use this same split view. However, in the settings I rumbled, bumbled, stumbled across Fish ID, which results in fish being displayed in the left 2D pane (as opposed to colored lines). Curious if you are unaware of it or just don't care for it. Humminbird Fish ID system
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I don’t trust fish ID as it will show fish where there are none. It will show interference and bubbles as fish at times, I have had a paper graph or fish finder for over 40 years, I want to see what it sees and not have bad information. Just my opinion. In the hummingbird forums you will see people all the time telling others to turn it off, it’s not just me that doesn’t like it.
 
Dworwood said:
View attachment 29473This is not a great picture of an active group but this is what you’re looking for. Someone coined the phrase “wolf pack” or “hunting” school and if you find a school like that it is the best fishing lake powell has to offer in my opinion! A friend of mine used to tease me about a wolf pack and had never seen that on his screen until we were in the SJ this year and after about 30 minutes of all three of us being hooked up continuously he became a believer. The screen will be full of active fish and you just drop down and work your lure as described in the above posts and it is better than boils! Most times found under a boil or where one just happened. We don’t find them every trip but if you find them it is great fishing until they leave you. @Littlesaltwash took a picture of us one time and we had 5 fish on at once. You will know a wolf pack when you see one so stop and drop a spoon as @wayne gustaveson has described many times and hold on, it is the the best it gets in my opinion! Good luck, I hope you find a “wolf pack” this fall!
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Lesson learned from that day was to stay closer to your boat since you had the school buzzed up.
 

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Dworwood said:
I don’t trust fish ID as it will show fish where there are none. It will show interference and bubbles as fish at times, I have had a paper graph or fish finder for over 40 years, I want to see what it sees and not have bad information. Just my opinion. In the hummingbird forums you will see people all the time telling others to turn it off, it’s not just me that doesn’t like it.
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Yep turn it off. You will learn how to recognize fish on the traditional. Sidescan and downscan are helpful as well. Fish ID not so much.
 
RandyAustinFishing said:
Yep turn it off. You will learn how to recognize fish on the traditional. Sidescan and downscan are helpful as well. Fish ID not so much.
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100% agree. When you are moving, fish will appear as an arch. When stationary, they are lines nearly parallel to the bottom. You can recognize bubbles pretty easily once you play around with the sonar. My first sounder was a Humminbird, Fish ID is a joke! Play around when you are on spot lock and drop a jig down to figure out what is happening underneath the boat.
 
cfulton said:
Another technique associated with jigging, speed reeling or anchovy fishing over a school of stripers is that if you have more than one fisherman in the boat is to keep a hooked fish on the line until one of the others hooks up. A fish fighting the hook will attract other fish and have a tendency to keep the school under the boat longer. Once another fish is fighting your partners hook you can land your fish and get your lure back down for another fish. I do not use a net unless the fish are really big. If you can get it swimming toward the boat and not diving you can easily swing it into the boat using the fish's swimming momentum to avoid dead lifting it in. Chuck
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This is interesting. I had previously assumed that hooking and fighting with a fish up to the boat would spook the rest of the school.
 
Spent the 4 day weekend in the Halls area. Tried all the usual spots like Lake Canyon, Moki, Halls and Forgotten without success. We did find a few very small slurps with 10 inch dinks around Halls and Bullfrog houseboat areas. Then we saw the post from Dallas for his success in Smith Fork and we took a run up there. We missed the good action they were getting but still managed a few nice stripes and many nice 2 to 3 pound channel cats. This was the first time ever going into Smith, we have to say this is one beautiful Canyon! So thanks to Dallas we will have a great fish fry this coming weekend.

Dallas, it was very nice meeting and chatting. Thank you for the pointer!
 
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