10-20-2012, 06:28 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Yeah. Funny that wipers are both at the top and the bottom of the food chain. Wipers are typically planted as "sac fry"...newly hatched and still living off the yolk sac from the eggs. They are very tiny and as such are slurped up by the larger fry of all other species. And, since gizzard shad feed heavily on small invertebrates they also vacuum up lotsa bitty wipers. Kind of ironic that within a year the wipers will be turning the tables and dining on shad.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As any of us who fish for white bass know, whities are notorius cannibals. They eat their own young and love pieces of cut white bass meat. That carries over into the wipers. They have no scruples about munching down any little transplants that are small enough to swallow. They never pause to check ID or family trees.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I used to have scruples but I got vaccinated.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As any of us who fish for white bass know, whities are notorius cannibals. They eat their own young and love pieces of cut white bass meat. That carries over into the wipers. They have no scruples about munching down any little transplants that are small enough to swallow. They never pause to check ID or family trees.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I used to have scruples but I got vaccinated.[/#0000ff]
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