11-07-2015, 05:12 PM
[#0000FF]From what I have been experiencing...and hearing from other UL diehards...is that finding a school of larger white bass is the exception rather than the rule. There are still some around, but not nearly what we enjoyed in past years. There has been poor spawning the past three years...after a winter dieoff three winters ago...and low water conditions. That has meant fewer spawners and fewer young. In the places we normally see thousands of baby white bass in late summer there have been few to none.
In other words, conditions now are about what they were at the end of the last big drought that ended in the winter of 2004-2005. Few white bass and the walleyes getting skinny. However, the walleyes in UL are still healthy enough this year to make it through the winter okay. That was not the case in 2004, with lots of winter kill amongst the walleyes.
The good news is that no matter how bad it gets for anglers, it only takes one year of good water and a few white bass left to spawn...and the lake will be full of them again within a couple of years. As that famous line from "Jurassic Park" goes: "Nature will find a way."
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In other words, conditions now are about what they were at the end of the last big drought that ended in the winter of 2004-2005. Few white bass and the walleyes getting skinny. However, the walleyes in UL are still healthy enough this year to make it through the winter okay. That was not the case in 2004, with lots of winter kill amongst the walleyes.
The good news is that no matter how bad it gets for anglers, it only takes one year of good water and a few white bass left to spawn...and the lake will be full of them again within a couple of years. As that famous line from "Jurassic Park" goes: "Nature will find a way."
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