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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: DoubleGobble00 on February 08, 2011, 11:05:51 AM
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I downloaded all my SI snapshots this weekend. I found one hole in December that was stacked up with big fish. I believe they are catfish but I am not sure. What type of fish do you think they are?
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt233/GobbleCams/S00348.png)
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These were up on top of the flat and the shape of the fish look different. Maybe they are just smaller in size or maybe a different species?
(http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt233/GobbleCams/S00349.png)
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DoubleG
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doubleG....great pictures. Yes I think you have a catfish hole. You could go to your menu screen and turn on sounds....that way you should hear them meowing.
Well not really. but if you have a friend with underwater communications you can put that in the water and hear catfish whistleing. kind of interesting but we hear that a lot on the divers radios.
Chuck
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Thanks Chuck... I got my sensitivity a little high and my right side is blocked a little by another transducer but the pics turned out great. I hope to go try them sometime. Maybe they will still be there...
I never knew catfish made any underwater noise.. You serious about the whistleing?
Doubleg
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Yes....... catfish make a whistleing sound. It was weird the first time I heard it. The same with shrimp making a clicking noise....
Chuck
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Okay, I think Chuck was underwater a bit long… I mean catfish whistling? They don’t have the lips for it! Now a Carp, Drum or Buffalo fish on the hand… >:D ;D :D
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Carp and drum make a burping or grunting noise....
Kind of like buddies at the dinner table...or at Ralph's.......
and now that we totally hijacked DGO's thread....
Chuck
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No problem on the hijack.. This is the most response I have EVER gotten on this site.. LOL. Just glad for more than one response. Hijack continue on.... haha
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Thanks for being understanding.
Again Great pictures..
It certainly looks as if you hit a catfish hole. At least next time maybe you will have a rod and some worms to see what hits...
The shadow of several of the fish do look quite like catfish...
If you do have any diving friends with a communication unit. have them put it in the water.
Chuck
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Maybe we are doing the wrong thing using sonar.......Maybe we just need a microphone to find fish. :o ;D Maybe you better pattent this idea. :D
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There are a few things that are really freaky when you are diving in zero visibility! Nothing more so than the errie burping sounds of a black sea bass. I was diving in 35' in zero vis and keep hearing this sound all around me. I had no clue what it was at the time or if it was going to eat me!
I have also been slapped in the face (knocked my face mask off) by a 5-6' Tarpon. That litteraly scared the crap out of me. I never saw it coming.
Robert
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I find that in the winter months the gar gang up quite a bit. Did you see any gar surfacing?? Those long lines/dashes indicate a long fish. I don't get catfish in that big of schools.
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I have never done any diving.. I bet that was pretty scary with the tarpon. If you want to try something spooky you need to go hand grabbing with me... haha..
T Mike - I didn't see any gar that day... but it could be. I didn't think catfish would stack up that tight either but I don't know. I know they were big fish. I did find another large group of fish one day on SI. I went back to it and cast for bass a while and noticed lots of gar rolling on the surface in just the one area. So I wrote all those fish off as gar. Here are the snapshots from that area:
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DoubleG