Thread: Bream ???

Originally Posted by Eagle 1

Red ear beds can appear and fish gone in a weeks time . Trace lake is famous for it . This spring a week of high wind caused me to miss the best fishing of the year . Trying to crappie fish and red ear fish are hard to do . Were the craters/ beds huge ? Red ear .

From what I understand, redears only spawn once a year .
Here in Georgia, bluegill will spawn every month until fall . With each month having fewer spawners.
The females lay the eggs and the. The males stay on the beds until the eggs hatch unless caught and kept .
The shallow spawners get caught early.
The deeper spawners used to be protected somewhat before the new electronics became available that allows those to be located .

Me to Ketchun although know it's not true for all lakes. While the blue gill will continue to spawn through June size and numbers and agressiveness goes way down. Got a friend who fishes West Point 2 hours west of me and won't catch fish until May but most of my fish are done by then. It's a bigger lake than Jackson but similar in topgraphy ( average depth ) . I guess the answer is you have to know your water as mine is very consitent foe the most part year to year. Scott