Spawning Sunfish

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Spawning Sunfish

Sunfish will be spawning in water temperatures between 65 and 75
degrees, although some fish are still spawning when the water is as high
as 80 degrees. To give you a good idea for when to find these
spawning fish, it will happen a couple of weeks after the bass. If you see
lots of bass on the beds, it is too early, but it will start very soon.

Catching spawning sunfish is by far the easiest type of fishing. Males
attack anything that comes near the nest and females feed throughout
the spawn. Anglers have been known to catch the same fish 2 or 3
times within minutes. Cast a small worm in the beds and you will catch
fish all day. Most sunfish spawn in just a couple feet of water, however,
in clear lakes they can found spawning in water that is 10 to 15 feet.

Anglers will typically use lures when they are targeting the biggest fish
for table fare. If you throw a small jig or into the beds, you have a
better biggest fish. Fly-fishermen like to use flies and poppers around
the beds and this also produces well. The nice thing about using lures
is that you don't have to re-bait your hook. If you are out with your kids
and you are trying to fish for bass while they fishing for sunfish, try using
small leeches. Sunfish have a hard time getting the leech off the hook,
which will result in you re-baiting their hook less often.

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