Provo Delta versus High Spring Runoff

[Piscophilic]

White bass are not like salmon.  They do not pattern on the same tributaries in which they were spawned.  They simply look for any kind of current and follow it up to a suitable spawning area.  Suitable to them...not anglers.  So in any given year...under any set of water circumstances...the whities will swim around the lake until they find a place to spawn.   And it can simply be a wave washed rocky shoreline...not a flowing stream. Any port in a storm...so to speak.

Thanks Pat! I didn't know that much about their spawning behavior and growing up in SW Oregon I do tend to think of things from an salmon-ish perspective. Sounds like they won't miss the old channel much at all.

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White bass are not like salmon.  They do not pattern on the same tributaries in which they were spawned.  They simply look for any kind of current and follow it up to a suitable spawning area.  Suitable to them...not anglers.  So in any given year...under any set of water circumstances...the whities will swim around the lake until they find a place to spawn.   And it can simply be a wave washed rocky shoreline...not a flowing stream. Any port in a storm...so to speak.

Thanks Pat! I didn't know that much about their spawning behavior and growing up in SW Oregon I do tend to think of things from a salmon-ish perspective. Sounds like they won't miss the old channel much at all.

From your description, I would guess that walleye are more like white bass, just seeking flowing water if they can find it. Is that your understanding?