Echo - this morn

[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]It's the cycle of life. The predators get an annual glut and put on some weight while the perchlets are plentiful. But as finny raiding parties thin the herds the survivors get better at hiding...or hanging out where the bigguns won't find them. DWR has actually recorded schools of small perch in Rockport hiding out below the thermocline...in water too nasty for the larger fish to follow.[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]
[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]And the larger crappies and yellow perch do not only eat the smaller offspring of the year. When times get tough they also slurp up the green "soup" of the little bitty bites favored by the youngsters. Guys who fish Pineview under the ice play video games on their sonar at night. They locate a proven mud bottom and then watch "TV". When conditions are right, the clouds of little stuff form visible layers above the bottom. Then the crappies move in to feed and almost anything offered to them gets munched. Over the years I have filleted quite a few fish of several species that were chock full of the little green goobers. Yuck.[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]
[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]When you're not with the ones you love (baby perch) you love the ones you're with (anything edible).[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]
[/#0000FF]
[#0000FF]Careful how you phrase the "throwing" crawlers. Chummin' ain't legal in this here state of Confusion. Or is it the state of Hysteria?
[/#0000FF]
[signature]