Bait Pods & Seagulls

[jerkin]

Bait Pod's and Seagulls = Smallmouth Bass  Today i saw bait pod's the size of my
chevy pickup truck. I have only herd of such crazyness. Anyone have any idea what
kind of bait i was seeing. OH and not another boat in sight pretty awesome . Well Tuna
boat's but thats it. The pod's looked like weed bed's, dark spot's but moving. This was just
crazy, anyone else see this stuff going on today?

[Wolf_fisherman]

Saw the same thing today to jerkin coming back from the south shore. dark spots and gulls and fish crashing surface. I think they were feeding on the fish flies. Tons of slicks when we got over the shipping channel heading back to 9 mile.

[jerkin]

Wolf did you stop to fish any? I was throwing a weightless bubblegum senko until my arms
fell off. Were talkin big fish 4's n 5's. Weighed in 20.17 last week in a tournny doing the same
thing. That stuff is as addicting as it get's, just wonder how long that will last? I think the minnows were eating the fly's and the smallies were eating the fly's and the minnows. I fact
the tuna boats seemed to get things going. Who knows,  no bass pro here just love to fish for those big smallmouth bass. I fish for fun more than tournny's now days , one here one there
so i have no problem giving up info when i wackem.

[Skulley]

I am with you jerkin.  I fish more for fun than for tourneys any more.  I fish a few tourneys but not as much as years past.  Too much fun fishing with my kids.  Saw the same thing yesterday.  I thought those could have been alewifes.     Looked like alewifes.

You could have pulled up anywhere the water was clear yesterday and caught good ones.  I caught about 40 or so and they were all keeps with a few 5's, several 4's, too many 3's to count.  Lots of fun.  I hope the FLW Pro's don't catch too many there and move them all to the Elizabeth Park area.  It will be 2 to 3 months before those displaced fish make it back to those areas.  At least that is my theory.........  

BD