This has been one of those exceptions to the rule this year, at least for me. My friends bro is a fish bio and he brought up some good points yesterday about "photo period" and water temps. In short, it's something like the Farmer's Almanac last freeze date according to him. In all generalities concerning solstice and the Northern Hemisphere's 30 day "delay" due to water heating, fish have their preferred temps and when they arrive early their buffer goes into limbo. I've been catching spawned out wally's for 2 weeks now, I've never seen this in my life. The photo period thing has some setbacks he pointed out, saying if it were true your smaller bodies of water wouldn't spawn earlier than larger bodies because of this if they were in the same area. WOW, I never thought of that, always something like SE to NW here in KS was my thinking for spawning. This year proves different in many ways.

My biggest question is yoy, with a normal fall the yoy will have a longer growing season. Is this good or bad? Is reproduction better? The shad will be huge this fall, I think this will hinder the crappies growth. Then there's the walleye and their warm water demise here in KS, does it help yoy? We will need them in the system down the road to replace those lost for multiple reasons. I sure hope we have a normal or even better, a mild summer. So many questions for the fall and future. Any other thoughts, what do you think?