08-17-2018, 04:44 PM
[#0000FF]As GCS has observed, feeding fish move into shallower water in late summer. A big part of that is the food chain thing...the groceries. That's where the young of the year perchlets go to find the bitty bites (zooplankton and other small aquatic stuff) upon which they feed...and the predators follow. [/#0000FF][#0000FF][#0000FF][b]Just about all t[/#0000FF]he fish I kept and filleted yesterday had one or two baby perch (1.5 inches or so) in their stomachs. If you can find an area the food is concentrating you should be able to find larger feeding fish.[/b][/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]I haven't had a chance to fish Echo through the changing seasons, but based upon what I have experienced at Pineview, Deer Creek and Jordanelle the zooplankton (perchlet food) move to deeper water as it cools in late fall. The small perch follow and the larger fish follow the smaller fish. I have had several successive trips in the fall where every trip found the fish a few feet deeper. By ice-up time they will be anywhere from 30 to 50 feet deep in most lakes with perch as a forage base.
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[#0000FF]I haven't had a chance to fish Echo through the changing seasons, but based upon what I have experienced at Pineview, Deer Creek and Jordanelle the zooplankton (perchlet food) move to deeper water as it cools in late fall. The small perch follow and the larger fish follow the smaller fish. I have had several successive trips in the fall where every trip found the fish a few feet deeper. By ice-up time they will be anywhere from 30 to 50 feet deep in most lakes with perch as a forage base.
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