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Date: December 27, 2002 at 01:16:27
From: ken, [pool-64-223-38-62.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Krill?

Krill

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Krill

From: Ken
Date: 01 Sep 2001
Time: 11:24:37
Remote Name: 207.180.0.8

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Krill are a small shrimp like creature that form most of the biomass in the Antartic and Artic waters. It is fed on by baleen whales not stripers. It does not exist along our coasts nor has it ever to my knowledge. What people are calling krill are small crustations and worms and other things like crab larve and isopods etc. that are sometime present in high numbers in certain places and when they are the Stripers and other fish feed on them to the exclusion of everything else. This is a normal patterrn for stripers and it happens several times a month as different species of these crustations and worms become prevelent a "Hatch" of them so to speak. It is not a hatch but a spawning mass. There is not one single type of creature involved in all this this kind of behavior and so one type of fly is not the answer. Bonefish patterns have nothing to do with this North Atlantic phenomenon as an/the answer to catching fish when it happens. They may good imitations from time to time but they are unrelated to the wide diversity both in size and color of our native crustations. A little dip net and a scoop in the water to catch a few of the actual creatures that the fish are feeding on will be the best approach to identifying what they are and how to tie flies that approximate them. The other thing to remember is that there is no one creature responsible for this type of feeding behavior and even though it happens eveywhere it is not all the same animal that is present. I have seen isopods that are 1 1/4" swarming and bass feeding on them heavily and 3/8" isopods swarming and big bass swimming through them very lazily eating them for hours. It happens both in the day and in the night and sometimes, certain very tiny isopods less than 1/4 " that do not swim at all but drift in a suspended state. This is very difficult to realize when it is happening. The bass swim around in lazy circles with their mouths barely open a half inch and it appears that they are not feeding but just swimming around. The isopods are so small that you can not see them unless you use a dip net. This happens often and when it does most fishermen are mystified. There is a lot to learn about this part of striper fishing and it is major behavior and closely related to the type of fishing that trout fishermen are used to and often it is necessary to use the same type of approach to it that trout fishermen do when trying to figure out what fly to use in a hatch. And interestingly the creature change from week to week just like mayflies do. Lots of different types over the course of a year and all of them follow a pattern and do not swarm out of the order of the pattern just like the bugs of freshwater. The hendricksons come before the light cahills do, year after year in the same order, no matter what their latin names may be.

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