Fished Sunday with a buddy up in the wando, caught a good many fish, near 20, but noticed that a majority of them were very thin. Not used to so many thin fish this time of the year and made me nervous if the water temp drops to much later this winter and early spring, the trout may suffer. Any thoughts on cause? Anything to do with all of those new developments? I figured that too much runnoff in the fertilizer could harm the micro plankton and alegie that the bait eat and the effects could be working up the food-chain with lower bait numbers in those areas around all that development. Anyone else notice thin fish?
Wow. My head hurts.
red.hunter; go back in the search forum ;; there are tons of posts
on contaminants,run off, fertilizer,ect,ect,ect affecting the food
chain,fish numbers and so on;;; makes for interesting reading:smiley:
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Originally posted by EpresWow. My head hurts.
LOL
If you come visit me at Haddrell’s Point Tackle I can sell you mud minnows, you can release them and the trout will have a proper food source.
The previous statement was a joke.
Some of the thinner fish might have just spawned, did you notice if the fish were drumming ??
See how that fishes belly fell through my fingers, if I caught her a few weeks after this photo had been taken she probably would of weighed a lot less because she would have no longer had eggs. This photo was taken in November a few years ago. This is a Wando Trout caught on a Trout Trick in a school of Redfish, while fishing with Capt. John Fuss of Holy City Fishing Charters.
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They are without a doubt not spawning…just getting fat for the winter. If you cut that girl open it would be all fat in there! I believe June is the peak month for spawning, might be July though. Nice fish.
I’ve been catching a lot of male trout and good size like 17 inches, all fish in the James Island area have been healthy. I figured the opposite all the freshwater run down will wash in a lot of new micro growth causing a increase in the base of the food chain which usually increases the top of the food chain, its just we won’t notice the top chain changes until a full season or 2 after. Since like 2 or 3 years ago we’ve had milder winters and I feel like I am seeing the effects of it, definitely seems like the trout reports have improved, I catch more keeper sized black drum and reds witch reflects the population of 2 to 3 year old fish.
Some fish have a false spawn coming into a late/warm winter.
Copulation of cynoscion nebulosus has been put it on the table. Thread should be locked down until barbawang gets in here to straighten you people out
Hurrican701- Dang that’s one hefty fish, and I did feel a little bad taking the grubs out of their mouths, like it was cruel joke, hahah. I dont recall the fish drumming, would that have meant it had spawned?
40inchreds That’s an interesting thought, I guess I never considered a positive impact from the increase of urban run-off, but its hard to argue with the numbers some guys are getting, 100 plus days.
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Its a little late for spawning. The trout fatten up in the fall for winter, then when food gets scarce they skinny up. I suspect the hurricane swept the bait fish out a little earlier than usual this year. Before Matthew the fish were really fat! Not eggs, just fat. Drumming means its a male. Males don’t get much larger than 19-20". Anything larger is most always a female.
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I caught several large females that had fat bellies full of eggs. They hung in the same places maybe a month after they dropped their eggs. The bellies were gone and no eggs shot out when you held them. They have since moved to new areas. I’ve been catching lots of healthy male fish in schools and finding the big females being loners. I haven’t noticed any super skinny fish except the first year fish around 10-12 inches. I’m happy ab the increasing number of large trout.
This is a family website, can we leave fish sex out of it?
Peapod, stop giggling.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
Ya’ll took my reply out of context , didn’t say it was the cause of red.hunters observation , just that there has been tons of thoughts , comments , posts , as to less , small , missing , or extinct, marine life…True or not but it makes you think/wonder!!!
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I don’t eat trout often but I cleaned a few trout 2 weeks ago and they were full of eggs.
Fish Drumming = Male Trout
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the barbawang abides
Now we’re getting somewhere. Straighten them out porfavor
I am quoting my post-doctoral research paper on the habits of marine thingys… “Thin fish are hungry fish”.
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Originally posted by 40inchredsSome fish have a false spawn coming into a late/warm winter.
So this is trout ED?
I am quoting my post-doctoral research paper on the habits of marine thingys… “Thin fish are hungry fish”.