Large school of whitefish spotted

underH2Oman · Nov 24, 2013

I was diving in Colpoys Bay today and ran into a large school of whitefish. It may have been several hundred. I have not seen a school this large in years. Has anyone else seen a large school like this? I am curious if this may be more common in some areas.

Where have you seen large schools of fish?

NorthernPike · Nov 25, 2013

Wow. Sounds very neat. Where exactly in the bay? How deep? I've never seen a school of whitefish but it would be a fantastic sight to see. And would be nice to have a few in the frying pan too.

Jared0425 · Nov 26, 2013

In April of 2012, we went diving in the straits. I just gotten bent the previous dive, so I did a shallow dive on the Barnum. There must have been a few thousand whitefish swimming in the hull. I stayed shallow and watched overhead as they swam about and went over the hull. It looked like a silver waterfall when they went over the sides. On the Wexford there was a decent size group in May.

shoredivr · Nov 26, 2013

Dean, you are lucky! Next time I'm in Colpoys Bay I will likely see one lone gobi lol.

underH2Oman · Nov 26, 2013

NorthernPike:
Wow. Sounds very neat. Where exactly in the bay? How deep? I've never seen a school of whitefish but it would be a fantastic sight to see. And would be nice to have a few in the frying pan too.

I was diving in the shallow section of the Bay just north of the boat launch on Bayview St. in Wiarton. They were swimming along the shoreline in about 15 ft of water.

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