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Fall Is For The Birds

By Wade L. Bourne
BASSMASTER Magazine, November 2007

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

"November and December are terrible months to be a shad on Kentucky Lake," notes Scott Loxley, a veterinarian and lifelong bass angler from Clarksville, Tenn. "These baitfish are trapped between gulls overhead and predator fish below. There's nowhere for them to escape. The only thing a minnow can do is hang with the school and depend on the law of averages that he won't be eaten." But many are, both by the birds and the fish, and Loxley says in late fall the former can be the key to finding an ...

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