05-05-2005, 05:50 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Apparently walleyes have long ago discovered that mudcats (bullheads) are a good source of fat and protein, to rebuild energy stocks lost during the spawn. I have caught walleyes with those stickery little guys in them for many years, mostly right after the spawn and before there are lots of other small fish...like the fry of carp, white bass AND baby walleyes to munch on.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]They learn to deal with them, by munching their pectoral fins flat and swallowing them head first...as the one was that I recovered from my wallie last night. I also suspect they chomp them hard a few times, to kill them, before swallowing, so that they do not thrash around inside. When they are feeding on bullheads, they strike hard, as the one did last night. When I fish them with big black jigs, the strikes are never delicate, like when you troll them with a slow crawler on a bottom bouncing rig.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]They learn to deal with them, by munching their pectoral fins flat and swallowing them head first...as the one was that I recovered from my wallie last night. I also suspect they chomp them hard a few times, to kill them, before swallowing, so that they do not thrash around inside. When they are feeding on bullheads, they strike hard, as the one did last night. When I fish them with big black jigs, the strikes are never delicate, like when you troll them with a slow crawler on a bottom bouncing rig.[/#0000ff]
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