09-13-2019, 11:37 PM
"Any theory as to why the big change?"
[#0000FF]It's a food chain thing. Bottom of the food chain is the zooplankton, daphnia, etc. As soon as daylight hours shorten and water temps start dropping the bitty bites either die out or move deeper. The young of the year perch follow...and the predators follow them.
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[#0000FF]If you can't see any more baby perch in the shallows they have moved deeper. In Pineview we look for balls of the baby baitfish and then fish around them for the bigger fish. By late October or November the water temps have dropped to 40 or below and the perchlets may be 50 feet deep. Ditto for the crappies and perch feeding on them. Haven't had that much experience with Echo but I'm guessing the factors are pretty much the same.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]It's a food chain thing. Bottom of the food chain is the zooplankton, daphnia, etc. As soon as daylight hours shorten and water temps start dropping the bitty bites either die out or move deeper. The young of the year perch follow...and the predators follow them.
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[#0000FF]If you can't see any more baby perch in the shallows they have moved deeper. In Pineview we look for balls of the baby baitfish and then fish around them for the bigger fish. By late October or November the water temps have dropped to 40 or below and the perchlets may be 50 feet deep. Ditto for the crappies and perch feeding on them. Haven't had that much experience with Echo but I'm guessing the factors are pretty much the same.[/#0000FF]
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