09-12-2011, 04:43 PM
Not to be a snoot - but a boat/float and fishfinder.
Lots of boat traffic will drive them down, but then they'll hit the shorelines at dusk/dawn most places. If you can find the thermocline - transition from warm/cool - it's the most oxygenated, and appealing.
That whole inlet idea is great - you can see the "pattern" of the inlet flow in winter at Hyrum by watching the tent-city pattern.
Ice fishing with an underwater camera made clear - they do school in, run amuck, then move off.
You may find transition area - weed edges, dropoffs - where they'll cruise. But they aren't the ambush predators that bass or musky are, for example. And they do tend to cruise in groups - bully gangs!
Lots of boat traffic will drive them down, but then they'll hit the shorelines at dusk/dawn most places. If you can find the thermocline - transition from warm/cool - it's the most oxygenated, and appealing.
That whole inlet idea is great - you can see the "pattern" of the inlet flow in winter at Hyrum by watching the tent-city pattern.
Ice fishing with an underwater camera made clear - they do school in, run amuck, then move off.
You may find transition area - weed edges, dropoffs - where they'll cruise. But they aren't the ambush predators that bass or musky are, for example. And they do tend to cruise in groups - bully gangs!