06-17-2019, 10:43 PM
"but the chasing seemed too heated to be just midges and I wondered if they were chasing YOY something."
[#0000FF]Highly unlikely that any fry from recent spawns is available yet. Although some 1" walleyes usually show up in weedy shallows about this time.
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[#0000FF]Later in the summer you can have a whole food chain playing out in front of you at daybreak sometimes. The attached two pictures show 2-3" white bass young feeding on midges...just before I launched at Sandy Beach early in September. Shortly thereafter, some larger white bass showed up and started blasting their younger cousins. As I was trying to kick out past the mayhem, one of my tandem jigs was trailing in the water. A good sized white bass jumped up and snarfed it...pulling the other jig down far enough that a second white bass grabbed it. Double trouble.
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[#0000FF]That scenario was repeated as often as I wanted to dunk the bottom jig in the water...right next to my tube. But as soon as I got to the edge of the melee I switched to a red and chartreuse 3" twister. And whenever I could keep it from getting molested by other white bass I caught nice walleyes. Yea verily. A whole food chain.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Highly unlikely that any fry from recent spawns is available yet. Although some 1" walleyes usually show up in weedy shallows about this time.
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[#0000FF]Later in the summer you can have a whole food chain playing out in front of you at daybreak sometimes. The attached two pictures show 2-3" white bass young feeding on midges...just before I launched at Sandy Beach early in September. Shortly thereafter, some larger white bass showed up and started blasting their younger cousins. As I was trying to kick out past the mayhem, one of my tandem jigs was trailing in the water. A good sized white bass jumped up and snarfed it...pulling the other jig down far enough that a second white bass grabbed it. Double trouble.
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[#0000FF]That scenario was repeated as often as I wanted to dunk the bottom jig in the water...right next to my tube. But as soon as I got to the edge of the melee I switched to a red and chartreuse 3" twister. And whenever I could keep it from getting molested by other white bass I caught nice walleyes. Yea verily. A whole food chain.[/#0000FF]
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