This happens every night at sunset; small fish start jumping across this whole canal, so many at once it looks like it's raining. As soon as the darkness settles in they settle back down.
The guy at the tackle shop told me this is 100% because they're being chased by predators… But that is hard to believe at this scale. I'm willing g to be wrong, but it just seems unlikely that the predators would be so numerous and so suddenly active that they were able to essentially boil the bait fish out of the water every night, along the whole canal end to end?
There are lots of bass in the canal, along with pike and the occasional very lost walleye, but in my experience they aren't filling the canal side to side… Is there a sudden feeding frenzy every night? Enough to make all these fish try to leave the water?
I should mention that when the fish start jumping like this, I'm not getting bites as much… So assuming for a second that the small fish jumping are because of overactive predators at nightfall, what's the best way to target them? Because I've tried casting crank baits, senkos, top water and soft swim baits at spots that seem to be especially jumping and nothing ever seems to happen.
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Start by wetting a line🤦🏼
I can never take advantage of it, either. I even see the trout chasing em sometimes. I think it’s because they get locked in on that specific food source. So you gotta imitate them really well I’m guessing