01-30-2014, 11:22 PM
This whole conversation is moot after all the FL perch get dumped in.
The reason a trophy pike is easy to catch now is because it is starving.
Once the lake is full of food a big pike won't be fooled so easily by an imitation bait or a hunk of chub meat hanging under the ice cap.
Look at how this played out at places like Willard or even Powell.
At Willard there are some massive wipers swimming around but due to a bunch of food they don't get caught all that often.
Powell is even worse with boom and bust cycles of baitfish.
I believe Yuba is on the verge of a bust.
I also believe UL has a bunch more pike in it than anybody knows. It is full of food so the pike are not caught very often. I watched a camera in one of the harbors a few weeks ago. I saw 3 different pike swim by in less than 5 minutes.
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The reason a trophy pike is easy to catch now is because it is starving.
Once the lake is full of food a big pike won't be fooled so easily by an imitation bait or a hunk of chub meat hanging under the ice cap.
Look at how this played out at places like Willard or even Powell.
At Willard there are some massive wipers swimming around but due to a bunch of food they don't get caught all that often.
Powell is even worse with boom and bust cycles of baitfish.
I believe Yuba is on the verge of a bust.
I also believe UL has a bunch more pike in it than anybody knows. It is full of food so the pike are not caught very often. I watched a camera in one of the harbors a few weeks ago. I saw 3 different pike swim by in less than 5 minutes.
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