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Strange Sight
I went down to Axehead Lake today for a couple of hours of Bluegill fishing. For a change there was not a breath of wind and the lake was dead calm. I unlimbered my 3 weight and started with a small black beatle. The fishing was slow but when I would hook up, it was with a large bull. Then a Seagull showed up. He started making passes over the water about two feet above it. Every time he made a pass the Bluegill went nuts like they were rising right in the path he took. This happened 8 or 10 times. I have never seen anything like this and cannot explain it. Anyone have any ideas???
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Re: Strange Sight
Were the bluegill protecting their nests? Spawning beds?
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I really haven?t seen any nest in close to shore. The water is still quite cold around here and I would call this prespawn. That is why I think that I picked up mostly bull Bluegills today. (They seem to be staging for the spawn.) I saw nothing on the water. All I can think of is that when the gull flew over it made insects nervous and they started moving around and this might have excited the Bluegill.
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....or made the Bluegills nervous with the shadow, especially if they were in fairly shallow water or up near the surface.
Joe.
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Interesting. I have nailed some really nice gills after grass amurs passed through, stirring up weedbeds, along with stirring up aquatic "gourmet items" that seem to call in the bulls.
Mike
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Joe............
I?m sure that the shadow of the Gull would make the Gills nervous. A large predator bird like that should make them skidish. The thing was that the Gills seemed to be taking something off the surface not just splashing around. I was trying to plot the Seagulls path so I could cast to where his shadow would pass. I got a couple of nice hits by doing this.
DickM.
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This may sound strange but are they looking for bird droppings for some odd reason?
I saw a large 'blackbird' drop the LARGEST amount of droppings I have seen come out of a bird over the pond I was fishing yesterday.
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Sometimes it is just an energy change in the fish. They may have been spooked or caused some other reaction or came to investigate a change. Usually when they change moods etc. they are easier to catch/ less selective.
As with everything it is not an always situation.
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It could also be they were eating dropping like BBW stated.
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Big Bad Wolf...........................
Actually that makes some sense to me. Possibly the Gills have had Seagull droppings before. They would contain mostly fish with some garbage added for extra flavor.