Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted June 28, 2006 Root Admin Posted June 28, 2006 Just wondering... ever heard of crawdads schooling like bait fish? Or do they stay on the bottom exclusively?
Wayne SW/MO Posted June 28, 2006 Posted June 28, 2006 Not sure exactly what you're asking. I know there are 35 varieties in MO, if I remember right, and many stay in their particular niche. I've seen them very thick in one area and I assumed it probably had something to do with breeding. Some leave the water to burrow, and some confine themselves to very shallow pools off the mainstem of streams. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted June 29, 2006 Author Root Admin Posted June 29, 2006 I mean out in the open. White bass on Table Rock... full of small crawdads and zero shad. Caught out in the main lake suspended in deep water. Clouds of something on the depth finder but not shad or they would have shown up in at least one stomach.
Wayne SW/MO Posted June 29, 2006 Posted June 29, 2006 I don't want to stick my neck out here, but I don't believe they are capable of swimming. They lack an air sac for one, and I've never seen one do anything but settle back to the bottom when propulsion ceases. Whites full of Crawdads does raise a good question, but I assume they do feed on them when they are available to them. Did mean to ask, how do know they weren't Shad? Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted June 29, 2006 Author Root Admin Posted June 29, 2006 I found it odd that none of the whites had shad, minnows- nothing but crawfish. These whites could be taking them off the bottom/banks but you'd think they'd be chasing shad someplace instead of crawfish.
Gavin Posted June 29, 2006 Posted June 29, 2006 Dont know if crawdads do it, but some friends from Florida took me out lobster netting on the flats several years ago. The spiny lobsters prowl the flats at night in long lines like ants, and if you can find them, you can load up the boat in hurry. Maybe crawdads do the same. Cheers.
Wayne SW/MO Posted June 29, 2006 Posted June 29, 2006 One would think that the Whites could find some Shad their size? I caught a White and saw another caught on the Elk, well up from the lake and apparently they were loners? Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted June 29, 2006 Author Root Admin Posted June 29, 2006 No- t/t someone who caught a ton of whites in the mouth of the Elk not long ago. If there's food in the creek, they will wonder up and feed I'm sure. they could even push the shad up there- stripers herd shad, why can't whites? I'm sure there's shad in that area but the puzzle is- why just crawfish? Will have to study it further.
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