LIVE Q&A for April 24th: Your Smart Fishing Spots Questions
- By: Luke Simonds
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Watch the replay of the Live Q&A about the tools and layers of Smart Fishing Spots. We break down how to use these great features to plan your trips better and make adjustments on the water. And as usual, there was other subjects that we covered also. You never know what you will learn during these calls!
Tight lines,
Luke Simonds
Chief Fishing Addict
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Here’s what you’ll receive today when you join:
- Weekly fishing reports and TRENDS revealing exactly where you should fish ever trip
- Weekly “spot dissection” videos that walk you through all the best spots in your area
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- Everything you need to start catching fish more consistently (regardless if you fish out of a boat, kayak, or land).
STOP WASTING TIME ON THE WATER!
Do what the “SMART ANGLERS” are doing and join the Insider Club.
Here’s what you’ll receive today when you join:
- Weekly fishing reports and TRENDS revealing exactly where you should fish every trip
- Weekly “spot dissection” videos that walk you through all the best spots in your area
- Exclusive fishing tips from the PROS you can’t find anywhere else
- Everything you need to start catching fish more consistently (regardless if you fish out of a boat, kayak, or land).
I agree with you all on electronics/sonar not being necessary to fish inshore, but I will say it can be a good tool to help you learn, especially in the beginning when you’re unfamiliar with the waters. With information like water temp, depth, etc., if I’m catching a lot of fish in a certain area, seeing what the depth and temp is can help me learn trends for that time of year and apply it moving forward.
I don’t really use it to actively find fish, I use it retroactively to learn about where I did find the fish and apply that to future trips.
If I get too scientific for yall and it seems like too much, let me know, I can tone it down. I love science and it’s application to fishing, but I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
I do that round rocks and stuff they call me the rock Fisher but you know what I catch fish I pulled out the rock real slow sometime I let it sit there it works
Sorry I missed this, 2 questions – don’t know if they were discussed before.
1) Is there a way to download an area smart spot map on your phone (like in google maps) for when you don’t have service?
2) 1′ contours are great, but are a resource hog, any way to allow an option to increase the contour lines
, i.e. 2, 3 or 5 ft? For cases when zoomed out or you are hunting and want to zero in on areas. Then you can zoom in and go back to 1 foot.
Thanks
Pete
Thanks for posting the great questions Pete!
1) We are working on exactly what you described so that the features can be used when outside of internet access… still several months out as that is a big buildout
2) Great idea… I’ll check to see if this is in the works or not.
Thanks!
Great show guys. Lots of info on a lot of topics. Just a wealth of knowledge.
What are some ways I can utilize the layers in the app to help find good spots to fish in the Peace River? I have noticed that many of the layers don’t seem to show up in the Peace River as you get north of Harbor Heights.
From insider Eric Seaberg
I don’t think I can make it but I wanted to ask two questions. 1. Is there a way the app can load faster or zoom in a bit more? 2. Since I belong to Freedom Boat Club, I can only use the Simrad app. Can I use Smart Spots instead to plot routes and navigate through channel markers?
For land-based fishing use of SFS, if you had to pick between multiple spots you could go on a particular day, with them all colored yellow (there’s typically no way can get to a red-colored spot minus boat in Galv bay complex), what factors would you use in deciding which to go to? With schedule and the large geographical area I can generally only hit one spot in a day via land. So it’s a question of how to narrow down a few potential spots that appear equal at a high level to the theoretical best one. The feeding scores when I’m likely to be out are generally all blue since I can’t hit the early morning or evening bite, so it seems like it might be more nuanced. Maybe when tide and wind both push the same direction (both incoming towards the spot) to get the highest water levels?
I most often focus on whichever spot has the most variations in structure and depths since they produce in a wider set of conditions.
When using the smart spots app, the hourly strike score doesn’t provide the numerical score when hovering over the bar. I have the latest update/version.
Are you referring to the Feeding Score bars that are on the tide chart? If yes, those are not designed to kick off a specific score… the purpose of them is to simply show the hours of the day that are abnormally good or bad via the high or low bars.