Pineview dead crappie

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[#0000FF]Tiger muskies are like most predators. When they have a lot of natural food to eat, they are less likely to chase down that silly stuff that anglers show them. They also tend to feed only during a short period every day...or every other day...or however long it takes them to digest their easy meals. So unless you time your trip just right the fish will only look and flip you the middle fin.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]Not sure about them dining on already dead crappies, but they are a "cat-and-mouse" type predator that instinctively responds to prey that is wounded or in distress. So with all the crappie croaking there are probably a lot of them that swim or flop around erratically while dying from their current problems.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]During the late fall crappie sessions I have had quite a few times when I released a crappie brought up from deeper water...and had it crashed by a tiger while it struggled on the surface to get back down. A lot of anglers during that time also feel their crappies get "very heavy" while being reeled up from the depths. About 3 years ago virtually everybody fishing for crappies in the deeper water at the narrows had tales of either landing or "long line releasing" tigers that munched their crappies on the way up.
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