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Thread: Worried about this years hatch
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04-20-2019, 04:20 PM #11
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I could be wrong on this but when reading Jim Steadke thread,he said the females come on to the reefs at night to spawn and then head out to the deeper water adjacent to the reefs during the day.Think the full moon is a cue for the fish to spawn based on best time to lay eggs.The deer doe supposedly use the moon too to go into heat.Both trolling and jigging is effected by water clarity.When water colder fish are more lathergic and will not chase at higher speeds drifting or trolling.The guys jig spoons initially in the real cold water and in very dirty water.The hair jig bite seams to heat up later when warms a little and needs a little cleaner water.The hair jig bite seams to catch mainly male fish in shallow water on the reefs or the beaches.You can catch walleye all year long trolling crankbaits.You are not going to catch much trolling spoons or harnesses below 50degrees though.Not exactly sure,but the walleye have been this way for a long time now.Sorry for writing in one long paragraph but doing on my phone and can't do it any other way.
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04-20-2019, 04:24 PM #12
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Thank you branham and Bob for explaining those things to me/us out here.
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04-20-2019, 04:28 PM #13
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Thanks Ben,looks like we wrote this response at same time.When I talked to Keith,Pooh bear captain,said he can't wait for spoon bite to start.The charter guys using big boards,tru trip 40s and spoons is a deadly setup.They can get those TT 40s out faster and shorter leads,less tangles than the cranks they are running now.The bite is also faster and fewer missed hits too.
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04-21-2019, 04:47 AM #14
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The spawn is not so much dictated by the moon. but fish do react to it. Length of day and average water temperature dictate the spawn more. Males show up on the spawning grounds first and females stage in deeper water nearby. When water temps and day length are right females start moving in and more spawning does take place at night. Mature older females will often spawn first, but smaller young females dominate the real early spawning. Egg quality in these are often not good. The heart of the spawn is when you see the old sows and those are the ones that impact the spawn and year class. Once started spawning can last three weeks, but the main spawn happens in just a few days (7-10 days) then a recovery period. After a recovery period they put on the food bag to recoup the lost energy of spawning and this is when your bite changes as they are feeding on anything that looks good, Earlier they were eating high protein diets of mostly forage fish to build energy.
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