Thread: What's the difference

I see in various posts Speks being caught not too deep.Being from Tidewater deep is deeper than 10'.Yet the fish I have found in the Suffolk lakes are still on the bottum 20' +.Even today tried shallower with no luck,gave up and returned to deeper water and the speks were still on the bottum, at least for me. Why does it seem in these lakes the fish are still hugging the bottum while other lakes they appear to have moved shallower, any ideas?

Originally Posted by Corker

They'll sit on the bottom until they get hungry & then move up to feed. As the water warms, their metabolic rate increases (because they are cold-blooded) and then they need to eat even more often. Warmer water temps work like putting your foot on the feeding accelerator & it's starting to happen!

And to add to that the bigger they are the more they need to eat(kinda like a gas guzzling V8) and they want bigger forage. I think Kevin proved that with that bunch he caught on crankbaits a while back. Just not near as many big ones as little ones so you may go a life time to find a day like that. Back in the late 70's my buddy caught one over 2.5 lbs in Whitehurst on a 6'' wild golden shiner while bass fishing. The fish wasn't even hooked, the shiner was stuck in it's mouth and it wouldn't give the shiner up! I've only seen very few crappie in that lake at or near 2lbs, maybe because they don't feed on anything like we fish for them with?