What do sand eels do June 2002

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Date: December 21, 2002 at 19:47:12
From: ken, [pool-64-223-39-246.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: What do sand eels do June 2002

When you try and quantify behavior or figure out why fish do what they do and then think that you know, you always run the big risk of not knowing all the variables. Sand eels do lots of different, seemingly exclusive behaviors. I have heard lots of definitive analysis of their habits and have seen the opposite behaviors occur. I have also seen opposite definitions both be correct. They bury in the sand, lay on the sand, swim near the surface on both tides in the day time and at night, bury in the sand in both tides and in the day. They ball up in deep water and travel in large balls in water 12 feet or deeper and they come up on flats and spread out in soft marly bottom. They come into the shallows on gravel beaches that face north in June
at night and rise up to the surface at dark and then swim and wake at the surface all night long. They also do lots of other different things at different times and in different places. They also do all these behaviors at the same time and in the same places. The different discriptions of their behaviors are all true and you will see them all and more unless you believe that you know what sand eels do. Then you will only see what you look for. One thing is for sure they are an important baitfish even in those places where people don't see them because they do not come into warmer shallow water. It is what the sand eels that are right in front of you are doing that is important to you when you are fishing not the behavior of the ones in the "Abstract," definitions.

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