I don’t know what is in that lake, but what you described sounds a lot like the white perch schools I have seen finning/boiling water in the middle of a lake. We would often see alewives jumping out of the water as you described as well on on lakes that had them.
Plenty of White Perch in there and big ones too. I saw the news last night on the tick problem. 26 to 30 on him in that short of a time Yikes. Make sure you check good. Iv'e only gotten 2 so far this year. Feel lucky after seeing that story.
They were jumping - easily seen - no more than 3-5 inches long, slender, and silver. And literally hundreds of thousands or more of them. I’m pretty convinced right now they were smelt. Looked somewhat like alewives jumping on Chauncey - but no alewives in the chu - the prominent baitfish is supposedly smelt.
Crappie?
never heard of so many ticks. must be a huge collonie locked in around the chu.
Do you guys tuck your pant legs in your socks and spray permethrin from your shoes up your pant legs? Permethrin is supposed to kill ticks within 5 to 30 seconds.
I would but I hear it's harmful to cats and we have 2 cats