This years spawn

[Eyes N Leapers]

We have a place at Green Cove since 2000 but in the last 2 years some students from OHIO ST rented the unit above us. If you are out fishing the reefs you will see the the BLACK Flags they are sample mats for the DNR which the students check on a regular basis. I talked to them last year and asked about the samples they said most of the eggs were dead. I thought with all the warm weather it would have the opposite. Well this year I saw them again this week, and asked again, and to my suprise the told me that they were hard pressed to find a dead egg on the mats. So lets hope for nice steady warmup for the plankton and without all the shad we might just have another superhatch on our hands. Lets just hope!!

[sherman51]

i believe there is alot of factors that plays a major role in the spawn and survival. the water conditions and the weather during the spawn and then the water conditions and weather and the shad all play a major roll after the hatch. lets just all keep our fingers crossed this year that we have a good hatch and survival rate.
sherman