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Reply With Quotemany fish spawn on into June on all bodies of water in our areas. Its a biological clock along with water temperature patterns. Just kinda Mother Natures way of helping assure their will be a good spawn.
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Spawn question
Need some experienced crappie fishermen to explain this to me pls.
Was fishing a larger farm pond yesterday, 4 acres with depths of 30ft pls. We catch black crappie of all sizes in there ranging from 6 inches to 2 lbs. Stunting isn't a problem. Its a great crappie pond. This was the first opportunity Ive had to fish it this year and many of the crappie I cleaned still had eggs in them......... I thought the crappie spawn was over by this point, I know we had a crazy weather winter but its almost june. What is going on?
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many fish spawn on into June on all bodies of water in our areas. Its a biological clock along with water temperature patterns. Just kinda Mother Natures way of helping assure their will be a good spawn.
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The longer than normal cold temps kept most bodies of water colder than normal ... that slowed egg production past the normal time range for spawning ... then when it did get "warm", it did so quickly and got hotter than normal ... that shortened the time frame for a normal full-on spawn. The quick change from colder than normal water temps, to warmer than normal water temps, caught many fish not quite ready to spawn when conditions did become favorable (but trying to anyway, or just holding their eggs & absorbing them).
The fish's #1 priority is survival, not procreation. They will absorb the nutrients from eggs/milt as "food", rather than dispense them under conditions that don't promise a good percentage of surviving offspring. They instinctively know that if they don't survive, they can't very well procreate.
