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| On calm evenings before sunset on the lake I fish, you can sometimes see schools of fish breaking the surface, trying to get away from something. This can happen at 4 or 5 spots at a time all close together. I have sat in the boat and watched this go on all around me. I think they are small Crappies. No Ciscoes In this lake. I have casted to these disturbances with no result.
Something is on the hunt down there, but what? I get the sense they are working in packs. Is this Muskie behavior or bass or something else?
I've got a Crane 105 on order to toss next time I see this. Any other ideas? |
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Cast a Supertrap or large Rattlen shad over the school and let your bait sink about 7FT. down and yo yo your bait back to the boat make deep Fgr 8's and let the bait sink out of sight and jig the bait bring the bait up till you can see it let it drop back down. I have caught musky doing this on sunny days and at night. good fishing to you. Marv. |
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Location: North Metro, MN | I always whip a bait by those scurrying away from what lurks when I see it happen. gotten a couple here and there over the years by the freaked out little fish, otherwise once I have an idea of where they are I try to hit the edges of them or get a right below them |
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| What the hillwilliam from KY said. |
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Ranger - 7/14/2013 12:39 AM
What the hillwilliam from KY said. SAY WHAT ?? |
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| Calling you a hill billy Marv, no need for name calling MI buddy |
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| Have you seen multiple fish doing this at one time, so that you are seeing the ripples in two or three spots at once? It is almost like they are working together. There are a lot of smallmouth in the lake. Would Bass be more likely to to this? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | fly hatch or other surface feeding ... |
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| Are there any white bass in this lake?? Whites and Lm bass will school up in the summer and strategically attack schools of baitfish. On my home lake you'll see this and when they attack it'll look like a pack of piranhas, the water will be calm and all the sudden like 100 fish are all attacking at the same time. Its funny if you cast a lure when the frenzy isnt going on you won't catch anything, but run your lure through the school in the middle of a frenzy and you'll hook up everytime... |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Pewaukee is notorious over the last couple of years for this around sunset on calm nights. Tiny bluegills in the thousands schooled up in pods, kissing the surface and making it look like rain drops here and there. They scatter in waves on occasion and no doubt it's the presence of muskies, bass and just about anything else with teeth chasing them around... easy pickin's.
Edited by Sam Ubl 7/15/2013 2:22 PM
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Had fish breaking the surface all around us at sunset tonight but couldn't get w.e. was scaring them to bite. |
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