Thread: All nighter @ Green

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

Originally Posted by Les Young

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

IF they are still trying to spawn, they're doing it at 10+ feet. Personally, I think they just ran out of time to finish up spawning (seeing as how the egg sacs were only about half normal size) before the water got too hot for fry survival. They may just be in the early stages of absorbing the eggs, which is why the eggs were still yellow.
Not real sure why some of the males were still in tuxes, unless they were still guarding nests. The brushpiles we caught the fish from were the same ones that fish were caught from during the Fling.

Originally Posted by Les Young

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

Meant to say the females had eggs too.