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    For the last 25 years outdoor writers have been saying this, "The wind blows plankton to the windy side of the lake. Shad follow the plankton and predator fish follow the shad". Anyone think this is wrong! I’m sure outdoor writers are good people but sometimes they just repeat what somebody else said. Pretty soon everyone is saying it and it becomes gospel.

    The counter argument is ..... Plankton does not pile up on the windy side. Plankton exists in every inch of surface water. You can see it on the depth finder; its surface clutter. Drive to the windy shore and see if the surface clutter is thicker; its not. Plankton behaves like smoke. It spreads out evenly. The wind doesn’t concentrate it. Put a fan in a sealed, smoke filled room. Did the smoke pile up in the corner? That’s how plankton acts in windy lakes.

    Now my lunch break is over... tune in next time for, "The sun does not warm the water around concrete pylons.

    ps I’m not sure about that one anyone have any ideas?

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    it sure will warm the water some it's called conduction...

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    The Sun warms everything, directly or indirectly. The Sun is the best thermonuclear bomb ever built.
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    The sun warms the plankton, making it migrate toward the waves where the planktons food has been concentrating because the larger fish are there feeding on the shad that are there because concrete pylons are vibrating from the traffic going over the bridge. That probably makes as much sense as anything the brilliant writers come up with. Lets see how long it takes before you hear that theory at the lake from some genius who's buddy got a 21 inch crappie from over there by those pylons last spring. :D
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    Quote Originally Posted by GRIZZ View Post
    The sun warms the plankton, making it migrate toward the waves where the planktons food has been concentrating because the larger fish are there feeding on the shad that are there because concrete pylons are vibrating from the traffic going over the bridge. That probably makes as much sense as anything the brilliant writers come up with. Lets see how long it takes before you hear that theory at the lake from some genius who's buddy got a 21 inch crappie from over there by those pylons last spring. :D
    Good theory. :D

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    Good stuff!! :D :D :D :D
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    Quote Originally Posted by GRIZZ View Post
    The sun warms the plankton, making it migrate toward the waves where the planktons food has been concentrating because the larger fish are there feeding on the shad that are there because concrete pylons are vibrating from the traffic going over the bridge. That probably makes as much sense as anything the brilliant writers come up with. Lets see how long it takes before you hear that theory at the lake from some genius who's buddy got a 21 inch crappie from over there by those pylons last spring. :D
    Now that funny!:D:D:D

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    Did he say the sun warms the plankton?
    Last edited by NoMinners; 12-02-2008 at 06:49 PM.

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    I have heard another theory about the wind...
    In an open lake or cove the warmest water is pushed on the surface with the wind and piled up on the wind blown bank and slowly pushed deeper. Thus warmer water at surface and deeper along the bank. The opposite is true on the opposite bank the wind is blowing over. It pushes the warm surface water away so the colder water is be drawn up from the bottom making the whole area colder.
    That is one you can check with your depth finder. Try it out!
    In springtime, a few degrees warmer may bring the slabs up lookin for places to bed down.
    Thats my input.

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    I don't know about all them theories. Once when fishing from a dock with a halogen flood light set pointed about 45 degrees and about a foot above the water, after a while the very clear water got somewhat cloudy. On closer examination we could see something (plankton perhaps) moving towards the light and supposedly warmer water. We did catch fish as we could see them in the clear water and pitch our jigs to them.
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