04-22-2015, 03:06 AM
elkmagnet,
This doesn't have anything to do with the cold front. Water temp tournament day was 55ish depending on time/area of lake. The majority of fish should have been fat, healthy and full of eggs/sperm ready to spawn in a few weeks. They were not. If by some chance all these fish were post spawn, we still would have seen healthy fish just with empty stomachs, red tails, and other sores from the spawn. They did not have this either. Point blank these fish were starving. Not from the previous night's cold front, but from days and days without a sufficient food source for the entire population of fish. The food chain may come back once the smartweed starts growing, I don't know...
Chris
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This doesn't have anything to do with the cold front. Water temp tournament day was 55ish depending on time/area of lake. The majority of fish should have been fat, healthy and full of eggs/sperm ready to spawn in a few weeks. They were not. If by some chance all these fish were post spawn, we still would have seen healthy fish just with empty stomachs, red tails, and other sores from the spawn. They did not have this either. Point blank these fish were starving. Not from the previous night's cold front, but from days and days without a sufficient food source for the entire population of fish. The food chain may come back once the smartweed starts growing, I don't know...
Chris
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