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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 418288Attachment 418289Attachment 418290

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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?

WTG wish I was down there with you fishing that spawn. My buddy bymo came up here for some crazy reason or I would be down there. right in the middle of a foot of snow and record LOW temps.

Keep on dipping the pads and whacking them.

Wow, what a fun day. They still haven’t made their final big push to real shallow here catching a lot of fish deep but it won’t be long. Made the mistake of leaving my home area and launched at Astor. Passed a dozen boats heading for Woodruff/Dexter in the dark. Got up to an area I know that has some good deep wood and there’s 5 boats already fishing. Caught a half dozen or so and went looking for some less crowded water everyplace I wanted to stop and fish had a boat parked in it. Came home early

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

The vultures are feasting on the Plecos that got cold shocked a few days back and the Pelicans winter here. IMHO but the fishing was good.

Nice catch!! I’m guessing Stage 2 Spawn means they are at the shallows?
Thanks

That’s right, or maybe that the cold weather messing them up isn’t affecting them as much now. They bitin.

Okay Thanks!! I’m going to continue hunting them. Will hit the shallows (6-8’) next near pads and grass ������. I’m glad to hear/see someone is catching them!!

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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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Nice catch!! I’m guessing Stage 2 Spawn means they are at the shallows?
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Conrod 1st stage started about a month ago shallow & now stage 2 has started were you can actually "sight" fish them shallow as they chase fry & boil the banks, have seen them do this in the river going out to Harney as well, but like clock work, they do it every year on Jesup... different lakes will have different spawning methods & time of yr.



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

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Don't know much about that area, other than the only people I heard catching fish were shallow, hopefully the post spawn will be good on Woody within the month.

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Thank You! That is very important knowledge and am thankful you shared ������

Sorry about those ? Marks- I keep forgetting that thumbs up and smileys have to be done through site and not just from cell

Real interesting reading about you guys spawn. Making me anxious! I'm atleast a good month away as the water where I fish is in the mid 40's and the night temps are still @ 30*-32* nightly. I'm catching a decent mess to eat but that's about it recently.

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Real interesting reading about you guys spawn. Making me anxious! I'm atleast a good month away as the water where I fish is in the mid 40's and the night temps are still @ 30*-32* nightly. I'm catching a decent mess to eat but that's about it recently.

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Your day is coming soon…….

I’m seeing fish at a distance on my sonar at 5-10 ft in water column over 20’, but even drifting with a 9’ pole I’m not catching. I’m thinking they are being spooked? and I need a 12 or 14’ pole? Anyone have same experience?

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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.

It is entertaining to watch them feed. Once you start thinking that the fish are feeding just as ferrously under the bait as the birds are on top. Has to be mass chaos.

Jeff, what about maybe emailing me the original picture below so I might get the design on a t-shirt. Might be cool. Email to me at [email protected] if you can.

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