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Location: Orland Park, IL | Pic doesnt do justice, but worth seeing. This is east lake side right at jim and lindas "ramp".
Edited by M_komo 1/1/2007 6:52 PM
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| I think Rich S nailed it on the head. Gonna be some impressive weights next year.....errrr.....this year.
It may look like a disaster to most, but I think it's a beautiful site.  |
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| I'm with ya Jayman, Rich said it right, thank god we don't have a slot or size limits a couple years like this and the forage base would be decimated and those could wind up being walleyes floatin! No need for live bait this year they will be hittin whatever crank we put in front of them all summer! |
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| I'm no expert, but is it possible the shad die off isn't any worse than other years, but because of the lack of ice, they have just been more visible or got pushed to the shores more than usual because of more open water later into the year?
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| Does anyone have any pictures of the dead shad along the shoreline. be interesting to see how bad it is. Inlaws have a cottage on the East side but being from Racine, I do not not get up there much during the winter months. Hope we get ice up there soon for you guys!! Looks like the ice fishing equipment will be staying stored for this year. Big maintenance outage at work for 2 months at the end of January.
But for you guys that want to get some open water brown trout fishing in and want to take a ride down here to the Oak Creek Power Plant they are getting quite a few fish when the weather lays the lake down. Trolling is the key for the bigger fish but, anchoring the discharge will get you alot of 3 to 5 pound fish, along with drifting 3 ways in the current along the rock wall south of the discharge.
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| Thanks for the heads up Shadman. What cranks are working at Bender and what depth? |
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| Saw an interview with the DNR last night on the news... he said that the die off is normal and it happens every year. This year we get to see it firsthand because there is no ice. In a normal year, the fish die and sink to the bottom and because they are under the ice no one ever sees that vast amount of shad that die.
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| thumper - 1/3/2007 7:48 AM
I'm no expert, but is it possible the shad die off isn't any worse than other years, but because of the lack of ice, they have just been more visible or got pushed to the shores more than usual because of more open water later into the year?
Dave S
I think that's a pretty good guess Dave. I saw a recent TV news report where a DNR biologists was completely unphased by the die-off. I've only lived here three springs, but each of those years we've had huge amounts of shad floaters appear as the ice melted and the seagulls follow in Hitchcock proportions. |
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Location: Appleton wi | You mean the sky not falling and I cant blame Goerge Bush for something else!LOL |
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