Thread: Spawning Seeds

Fishing from shore, I see fish protecting nests but rarely have I seen them spawning. Today I caught two pumpkinseeds and a few nice gills in a little deeper water on a 00 spinner dressed with a fly and one on a purple plastic bait fished behind a #7 splitshot to get it down deeper. Everything else on that plastic bait today was small. Water was choppy & fish seemed to be hanging deeper than what they have been the last few weeks.

Anyhow, this lake has a very small piece of water at one end of the dam that is very shallow & I have noticed a few seeds nesting there lately. When I approached that area today, there were two there and spawning. My point and shoot camera has a 5x zoom (which I have never used before) but cranked it up knowing these fish wouldn't let me get very close. Should have taken a video, but haven't used that either. Not very into the newer high tech gear, which you probably know seeing some of the fishing gear I use. So I snapped a few pics of these two making lil' pumpkins. Almost like a underwater dance, really cool to see. And then the female took off and left the male on guard duty. Do you guys see this often?