We had literally thousands of 1" to 2" fish that just hung around the sunny side of our anchored boat for 3 days a week ago. Where we were anchored, we were not near any brush or protection for the fish, just sandy beaches (water clarity was about 20' and the fish stayed in the 3' to 10' depth range). The fish looked like small stripers to me as they had a visible stripe on the side of them, but the experts here I'm sure would know better than I what they were. We never did see any predator fish attacking them and they had no interest in eating anything that we tried to feed to them, but they were eating off the surface quite a bit. They stayed on the sunny side of the boat, did not go under the boat or go to the shady side of the boat. Hopefully this all means something good to you avid fisherman - i.e. that these will all be BIG fish in the coming years. Photos attached - and please let me know what type of fish they likely were if you know what would be schooling like this in this size range this time of year - I've not seen anything like it myself in the past. The school size varied, but was always greater than a couple of thousand and at times seemed like 5000 (estimate based on the area I could see them)
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