Deep Bait

[bacatit]

Deep Bait

Recently there has been talk of guys seeing big schools of bait and fish near the bottom in 200 plus feet of water. Could these be the deep water ciscoes the feds stocked a few years ago? Has anyone dropped down 200 plus after these fish? They have been fishing 250 plus in Michigan for a while now but I don't have the gear to do it.

[GAMBLER]

They could be smelt, or alewives also.  They found alewives, smelt, perch, and deep water sculpins in the trawls in 300' this spring.