Most productive time of day for whitefish?

[V45 sabre]

Wondering what part of the day people would say is when the whitefish bite is generally on.

[Dweb]

First light till 11

3pm till sunset

[FlyTheory]

When they move in shallow in the morning and evening to feed. I don’t know why. And I’d like to know why (the science behind it). I’ve experienced in the shallows first light until 10am at the latest at sylvan lake. I’ve seen them active at other times in NB2 lakes. I think there are exceptions, and obviously if you can find them in deeper water during the middle of the day, a rattlebait would get them horned up and biting. Anyone target them in the midday?

[Bassett]

Originally Posted by FlyTheory

When they move in shallow in the morning and evening to feed. I don’t know why. And I’d like to know why (the science behind it). I’ve experienced in the shallows first light until 10am at the latest at sylvan lake. I’ve seen them active at other times in NB2 lakes. I think there are exceptions, and obviously if you can find them in deeper water during the middle of the day, a rattlebait would get them horned up and biting. Anyone target them in the midday?

I’ve had luck at gull and sylvan mid day. I use a large gold cicaida (sp?) spoon. Bounce bottom and flutter it aggressively for like 10 minutes changing up from bottom - mid water colum. (20ft or more deep) then change out to a small pink hali jig but I remove the chain because the whites would always bite above the hook and I have pretty good luck.

I use the same method first thing as I drill a hole as well but normally just change out to a WW or instead of the cicaida I use a large wetaskiwin.


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[Bush Critter]

By far morning till 11am like some already said... too bad we can’t Speer the buggers it would be an all day affair then...

[dwedmon]

X2

Originally Posted by Dweb

First light till 11

3pm till sunset

[FlyTheory]

Originally Posted by Bassett

I’ve had luck at gull and sylvan mid day. I use a large gold cicaida (sp?) spoon. Bounce bottom and flutter it aggressively for like 10 minutes changing up from bottom - mid water colum. (20ft or more deep) then change out to a small pink hali jig but I remove the chain because the whites would always bite above the hook and I have pretty good luck.

I use the same method first thing as I drill a hole as well but normally just change out to a WW or instead of the cicaida I use a large wetaskiwin.


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Thanks for the advice. I’m heading out to pinehurst to see if I can find em. I’ll definitely use your tips. Thank you!

[Mitchthefisher]

First hour of light is usually good but I catch off and on all day long usually just depends when schools are moving through the area.