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I have a question about these lakes regarding the spawn. Since these are flood control lakes do you think the spawn happens later than most lakes? The reason I ask is it seems like if the water comes up on a daily basis to reach summer pool if the bass spawned out now wouldn't they lose their eggs/nest if the water becomes too deep? I've always wondered if the fish just wait until the water is at summer pool before they spawn
Barren is coming up really slow. Dry spring.
Fish aren't smart enough to know that the lake is going to come up in the future and they should wait to spawn. All they know is that the water temp is right and its warm enough to go.
If it jumps like 10 feet you might lose part of the spawn class. But not all fish spawn at the same time so you wouldn't lose it all that way either.
He's right, last year during the flood, a buddie caught and released some
nice ones spawning almost under someone's deck!! Lake temp. Gets them ready, moon phase pulls the trigger. I fished sat and sun. The lower end temp. Ran between 68 and 72. I even saw 3 people swimming off a boat, (my
wife was worried about them, with hypothermia, and all, i told her it was a way of thinning the herd!!!) tr