06-23-2024, 05:15 PM
I have fished Starvy during the "transition times" quite a few years in the past. It is a combination of a change in the water temps and the food chain. As you observed on sonar, the hordes of newly hatched baby perch move into shallower water as it warms above 65...and the larger perch and small walleye (predators) follow. But the temperature sensitive trout move deeper...from 30 to 40 feet or so. But if you find them they will still hit.
All of that reverses in the fall. There can be some great fishing for all species in water less than 20 feet deep in the upper end of Rabbit Gulch from sometime after about the first of September to sometime in October when water temps begin really dropping below 60. Then all species go deep again. Takes some experience and good electronics to find and follow the fishies.
All of that reverses in the fall. There can be some great fishing for all species in water less than 20 feet deep in the upper end of Rabbit Gulch from sometime after about the first of September to sometime in October when water temps begin really dropping below 60. Then all species go deep again. Takes some experience and good electronics to find and follow the fishies.