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Originally Posted by Lard Almighty
You just caught more largemouth bass by accident than I have in the past month. Guess I should take up salmon fishing if I want any more largies before ice-up.
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He was fishing in a lake loaded with landlocked Alewives,,, Whenever they are present in a lake almost all the resident "fish eating" species abandon their natural life styles.. In other words we know that LMB and Pickerel are ambush predators by design and are typically near weeds and cover.. Atlantic salmon are stream fish.. However put them in a lake with suspended clouds of fatty baitfish, and they go where the food is, following the bait fish in open water and keying on them, to the exclusion of everything else... Bass and Pike are caught in the Finger Lakes 60 feet down over 250 FOW.. Thats not where they were designed to be, but when they key on Alewives they act exactly as the trout and salmon do, and stay with the bait... bob
