Thread: Go fish...

Seamed like the card game yesterday, drop your line & find a pair.... they're going into stage 2 of the spawn where the bigger males will eat their own fry (1/2"-3/4).... downsized my baits & it was game on. Single poled 50 or better filtering through to mainly keep males. Good fish for Jesup...just look @ the banks to you find them busting the surface chasing fry.....Also found it interesting when coming back to the ramp the soldiers were aligned for battle, the white pelicans to the left & the vultures to the right.....also a pic of how far down these aggressive fish are taking the bait.....tightlines!Attachment 418287Attachment 418288

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Nice day on the water, thanks for sharing!

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Smacking it.. cool, thanks for sharing.

good job

Good job Jeff! They are busy right now.

What are you guys hearing about Woodruff, Dexter and the St Johns area on the spawn?

are the vulures and pelicans after the crappie or the shad?

Originally Posted by hdhntr

are the vulures and pelicans after the crappie or the shad?

Keith, like Skeet said, vultures we're eating the amoured catfish that die when we get a good cold snap, pelicans just migrating in area, Jesup actually has a island called "Bird island" & supposedly up to 10,000 species will pass through during the yr.

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Originally Posted by hdhntr

are the vulures and pelicans after the crappie or the shad?

The white pelicans are fairly large birds and when they swim in mass, they get very close to one another, in tight formation. Then they will swim alongside the weed line, driving schools of shad out in front of them. After a while they all turn in unison and flush the shad into the weeds. Once that happens they bum rush them and start gobbling the ones that panic upon encountering obstacles.

Once I saw that for the first time I had to keep an eye on them to verify that was what was happening. They did it about every five minutes. Quite a ballyhoo when they rush in for the kill. Water splashing everywhere.

So the pelicans are after shad.

Unsure why but buzzards hang out near lakes even when there are no fish kills.