Fishing Lincoln Beach 4/2 to 4/10

[Tin-Can]

Pat, I hadn't seen that write up yet, it's really good like all your other ones... Thanks for sharing that, I've been hearing a lot about the Flaits and Santee rigs and wasn't sure what they were either...  Tell you what those Kong fligs are dynamite for me this year, I've started casting them and slow reeling them in and man when those fish grab it, their already on fire... Really makes a fun fish to catch... I need to take my toon out and troll the fligs, but I never get long enough to be worth the set up launch time, so I'm stuck on shore, but the fligs still work well from there... My best fish so far came on the fire tiger kong flig... I drove that monster (like 8 aught) hook right through it's nose so it wasn't coming off..  I'm liking the purple perch flig too... Both seem to be catching fish and floating my big baits in the right zone...  I just wish I knew how to tell where the fish were going to be on any given night?  When they are around, it's a lot of fun, but I've spent too many blank nights when nothing showed up...  So how do those submarine hunting sonars from the planes work?  I want one adapted to find fish in the same way at an affordable price... hook it up to a drone and show me where to fish...  Is that too much to ask for?  Anyway thanks Pat... Later Jeff

Jeff, not too sure an airborne sonar system would work very well in your home water up there. Sonar works on impulses (pings) sent out that bounce back and are extrapolated into distance and speed of a moving object. Most of that area around Benson is so shallow, and can be so full of flotsom, airborne sonar would have too many false returns.  
Now, if you could come up with something on the equivalent of the magnetometers that are used by the P3 Orion Sub chasers, but designed instead to read fish skin and scales ,  and a long loiter capable RC drone with a dipping sonar buoy and a wireless transmitter to an app on your smart phone, maybe, just MAYBE that would work.    Nah, then you would be so busy with all the electro-gadgets that some big Cat would sneek in from a direction you weren't lookin, hit your bait, and take off with your rod and reel.
Kinda like what happend to John a year or so back up there at the Benson bridge.