Unbelievable Fish Finder Screens by Ed Valitutto

Posted on April 27, 2020 by VHFC

With the weather finally decent on Saturday 4/25, I wanted to get out and run my boat a little. I turned North on the ICW and went under the main span of the Causeway bridge eventually entering the small channel leading to Hochstrasser’s marina.

As I slowly approached the 4th and final span of the Causeway bridges, my fish finder screen lit up with all kinds of returns. Since I had a rod with a 3″ Storm Shad attached, I immediately started a slow troll down the channel and under the bridge. I repeated the troll stopping to jig at times but I could not muster so much as a follow let alone a hit! I couldn’t believe it especially with the screen shots shown.

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