So… this happened today!

kylem86
Posts: 158
March 31, 2015 at 8:23 pm #1529451
I think I may have found some fish today! What an awesome day to be on the river!
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CPRbigeyes
Iowa
Posts: 141

March 31, 2015 at 8:38 pm #1529475

Get some big girls?!

Burchoid
Posts: 28

March 31, 2015 at 9:21 pm #1529496

Look at all those carp!

Tim J
Duluth, MN
Posts: 539

March 31, 2015 at 9:40 pm #1529506

You must have accidentally turned on simulation mode.

Mike W
MN/Anoka/Ham lake
Posts: 13292

April 1, 2015 at 1:19 am #1529547

Pretty common to see that around some of the deeper holes. At times they get so thick the depth finder wont read through them. Ive dropped a camera in those schools a few times. never know what they are gooing to be but most of the time its some sort of rough fish. Buffalo, carp, sheep head. channel cats. Not uncommon to see a few walleyes or saugers mixed in with them.
procor
Mounds View, MN
Posts: 246
April 1, 2015 at 5:43 am #1529555
I have been out about five times this spring so far (with little success) and only seeing few fish caught from boats around me. I have searched many areas. I too get fooled by large groups of marks like that, but they are mostly all rough fish. When the water temps hit 40 and some back water area hit 42, I went searching to see if I could find anything in shallower water in the sand/gravel areas away from the main channel and the little current we have; hoping to find staging males or even some females that have an early itch to dump their load.

I took a photo of this school and had hestitantly high hope, but after working the area and snagging two carp, I was out of there. Sure there could be an eye mixed in, but doubtful. The second pic of four solo fish had me thinking that these could be some eyes as I could mark a couple here, one there, a few there, ranging from around 8-14fow off them main channel. I would think that these would be eyes, but as none were eager to jump onto my hooks, I could not verify. I had no meat that day, so I will go back and toss/drag something with protein for them….
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lundojam
Posts: 255

April 1, 2015 at 7:19 am #1529579

Every mark is a walleye, every time.Every mark is a walleye, every time.Every mark is a walleye, every time.Every mark is a walleye, every time.Every mark is a walleye, every time.Every mark is a walleye, every time.

FishBlood&RiverMud
Prescott
Posts: 6687

April 1, 2015 at 7:23 am #1529584

LOL> Every mark is a sheephead until proven otherwise!!!!

belletaine
Nevis, MN
Posts: 5116

April 1, 2015 at 7:38 am #1529590

FishBlood&RiverMud wrote:

LOL> Every mark is a sheephead until proven otherwise!!!!

Whew! There aren’t any Sheepshead in my lake then, I never see any marks!

bratholk
NULL
Posts: 26

April 1, 2015 at 8:24 am #1529620

was this left of the ” Y ” in the lock channel ? We found fish so thick we were hooking them jigging. Big quarter sized scales = not eyes

kylem86
Posts: 158

April 1, 2015 at 2:17 pm #1529762

Haha these were all spoonbills, we had just hooked up with a walleye and drifted off of our line into a deep hole. I about crapped when I seen the graph dropped down just to make sure because if I wouldn’t have I would never have been able to get it off my mind. About 10 seconds after I dropped down it was game on! Felt like I had hooked a log. I was actually pretty surprised to see it was a spoonie when I got it to the surface, I thought for sure they’d be sheephead.