Why does hooking one walleye seem to switch the whole school on?

Because a walleye school runs on competition instead of territory. In a loose feeding group, an individual that senses a competitor closing on prey commits faster and harder than it would alone — a hooked, struggling fish plus the scatter of panicked bait reads to the rest of the group as a feeding event in progress, and followers that had been inspecting baits for minutes suddenly eat. This is the engine behind the classic burst of three or four fish in ten minutes from water that felt empty. Exploit it deliberately: when one rod hooks up, other lines stay in the water; drop a marker or waypoint instantly; and switch to faster, more aggressive presentations while the group is lit, because the switch flips back off as the school calms.

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