10-20-2012, 12:50 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Congrats on the piggies. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I suspect that boils are over. Wipers are just not that active when the water goes to 60 or lower. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also suspect that the walleye feed is on...just not on silly fishermen's lures. If you caught any they would be full of shad eaten during the night before. But when they are choked with food they don't feed during the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Also, there is likely to be another massive dieoff of the smallest shad very soon. They are more sensitive to the cold when water temps go below 55 degrees...and their food sources (zooplankton) drop off for the winter. Larger ones that hatched earlier in the delayed spawning season can find more aquatic invertebrates to survive on.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]During the big dieoff last year...in November...the terns were swooping all over the water at daybreak picking up the dead baby shad. Within an hour or so you would never know it happened. But lots of other skinny baby shad died and sunk to the bottom, where the catfish had a glut. It was tough to get cats to bite too...and the ones I caught all had bulging guts full of baby shad goo.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here is a pic of one of the floating dead shadlets I picked off the water last year. Probably can't see it too well but it is paper thin...absolutely anorexic. Those shad are normally about 3" by November and are less likely to survive the winter if they aren't.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I suspect that boils are over. Wipers are just not that active when the water goes to 60 or lower. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also suspect that the walleye feed is on...just not on silly fishermen's lures. If you caught any they would be full of shad eaten during the night before. But when they are choked with food they don't feed during the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Also, there is likely to be another massive dieoff of the smallest shad very soon. They are more sensitive to the cold when water temps go below 55 degrees...and their food sources (zooplankton) drop off for the winter. Larger ones that hatched earlier in the delayed spawning season can find more aquatic invertebrates to survive on.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]During the big dieoff last year...in November...the terns were swooping all over the water at daybreak picking up the dead baby shad. Within an hour or so you would never know it happened. But lots of other skinny baby shad died and sunk to the bottom, where the catfish had a glut. It was tough to get cats to bite too...and the ones I caught all had bulging guts full of baby shad goo.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here is a pic of one of the floating dead shadlets I picked off the water last year. Probably can't see it too well but it is paper thin...absolutely anorexic. Those shad are normally about 3" by November and are less likely to survive the winter if they aren't.[/#0000ff]
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