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I was curious whether this massive school is baitfish. In the first pic you can see some bigger predatory fish. I dropped some jigs in the school with no luck so I'm guessing baitfish.
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YEP !! :ThumbsUp
I've seen schools of Shad with larger fish "herding" them on my DI unit ... and the screen looked very similar.
Thanks for the response. These schools were so big that the unit thought the top of the school was the bottom of the lake.
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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
LOL .... yeah, I've had that happen to me a few times, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by FishinRanger
Yep exactly what you described, definitely larger fish feeding on that school of Shad. They are hard to trick when there’s that many Shad around in my experiences lol
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Originally Posted by Prater4586
wow that's a MASSIVE pile of bait!!!
Shad for sure and a bunch.
Mountains of bait! Nice pic. Hard to fish that scenario
I think dragging a jig along the bottom (maybe imitating a dying Shad ??) would be the only way to elicit a strike from the fish ... even so, I think you'd probably only have <10% chance of getting the fish to even notice the jig, let alone entice them to eat it. But, hey ... that's still a greater percentage of possibility than dragging the jig thru the hoards of Shad above them.
Encountered something very similar on a local community lake last week. Came upon a massive school of IDK what in 20 fow. School was from the bottom to @ 15 fow and extended from 10' behind me to 40' forward according to the livescope. I tried everything I had including jigging spoons but did not connect with anything. Several blips appeared to be 10-12". I do know there are gizzards in this lake, and some of them are big. It was a huge school. Made me wish I had a cast net just to see.
Sure sounds like shad, they are known to bunch up in cold water.