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Post by quackquackboom on Dec 7, 2014 9:30:02 GMT -5
This ? is aimed at winter time fishing.
At what range of water temperature do the fish start moving deeper?
I guess another way of asking that would be at what range of water temperature do you expect to have to switch from planer board fishing to jigging and/or down lines?
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Post by quackquackboom on Dec 8, 2014 18:26:44 GMT -5
No takers...?
From what I've read on old posts and the webernet right now seems to be about that time of year - certainly in the next few weeks?
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Post by mwardncsu on Dec 8, 2014 19:04:18 GMT -5
Yep - it is about time to start chasing gulls...... I know some jigging action has already been had a week or so ago chasing a school, but on Saturday the bulk of the birds were sitting on their butts on the docks at Bridgewater..... on a typical year we're chasing the birds hard by Christmas at the latest..... I expect if you look hard enough you'll find some schooled up fish now - the fish we were on Saturday were scattered fish.....
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Post by CorneliaGale on Dec 8, 2014 19:15:48 GMT -5
Seemed to be a lot of bait below the bridge Saturday night when we came back from the Christmas parade, didn't take a rod with me, but saw them towards the top when we came back in. Might make for a interesting winter.
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Post by craddockcreek on Dec 8, 2014 22:55:52 GMT -5
As to your question about the temp that stripers like, I've wondered that myself and tried to ask around about it. What I've picked up is that they like water in the upper 50s. So, in the summer when the surface is warmer, they go deeper to keep cool. In the winter, when it drops below that, they go deeper to warm up. That might be overly simplistic, and I'm sure it alot of it depends on what the bait is doing, but at least that's what I've figured out so far (or I think I've figured out). I'd like to know what folks on here say. |
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