Do Stripers Settle in for the Night?

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by JohnR

I think sometimes when the other fish see one of their member being dragged away from them in a storm of comotion it may spook some away. Think of how often you get whacked early on and everything shuts down right away. Was that the sole fish? Or did the others get spooked? Does the school (swarm) scatter and then regroup a little bit away at a rally point?

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me and JoeyG discuss this alot......when fishing a concentrated area ("local" rocky areas)where you are pretty much standing in the same spot...the fish do get spooked by the activity of one getting hooked and fought or the commotion of lures hitting the water.....when it goes dead after landing decent fish we will say to each other "break time" and take 10 minutes or so out of the water....I am always ready that first cast back...most times they are back again because things settled down...

[Raven]

that cruise the ocean 25,000 miles at a time....

bass are built for rapid bursts of speed.....
so they'll always stage....where thats possible....

the uncle saying screaming....may have been refering to stress hormones as aposed to sound being generated
but it amounts to the same thing.

great subject....