Rochester Flea Status

[Just Fishin']

Haven't been out for several weekends and plan to go this weekend. How are the fleas now?

[UpGrady]

Rich,

Probably tough to tell now... looks like the cold water is upwelling after the east winds all week, so the fleas usually get spread out and seem to become less stratified except around the temp breaks and current changes....

[Just Fishin']

Thanks. Hoping to avoid re-spooling. lol

[salmonite]

they were not bad at all on wednesday, 30lb big game though

[rolmops]

I replaced my lines with flea flicker (20 #) and I have not seen a flea since.

[Jimmyi]

I replaced my lines with flea flicker (20 #) and I have not seen a flea since.

When do they start to disappear?

[rolmops]

I replaced my lines with flea flicker (20 #) and I have not seen a flea since.

When do they start to disappear?

I don't know when they start to disappear,but it seems they they cannot grab on to the flea flicker line.

My idea is that the fleas are active in the warm upper layers of water and they are blown around with the surface water.With strong southern or south eastern winds,the warm flea inhabited water is blown away from our shore and replaced with colder water from down deeper which does not have that many fleas,until it warms up and then the fleas come back.

These spiny fleas reproduce by cloning themselves lots of times when the environment is ideal for them.Only towards fall when the light becomes less and the water gets colder do they reproduce sexually and die.Their eggs sink to the bottom where they wait till next year