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| Lets hear everyones opinions, So what makes certain lakes better in the spring than say summer or fall and vise versa? Is it due to depth, size of lake, water color, type of forage, # of fish in the lake. I guess i see it as the smaller more stained waters warm up quicker which would help them be better in the spring. I figure most people fish lakes in the fall that are know for bigger fish. Any thoughts that can help me to understand the game a little better.
Thanks , TTRAP |
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| my guess would be depth and water temps . |
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| Could also be weed growth being sooner on smaller, warmer lakes than deeper larger ones, etc. There are lots of factors that could make a lake right across the street from another lake to be much better to fish at certain times of the year. Best advice is to fish constantly, keep a record, and try to duplicate your success.  |
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| I think the early lakes are easy to pick out, but the real advantage of swapping lakes comes in late August and early September. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | "So what makes certain lakes better?"
My guess is certain things fall into place (like water temp, food, depth, seasonal movement, etc.) and someone has been able to exploit that pattern. It also most likely a yrly deal when these things happen and thus get predicable - until something throws a "wrench" into one to two of the those things. If things remain constant, you can hit lake that are "hot" as certain times. I bet many folks do this, but don't realize that they do. |
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Location: oswego, il | Not only can certain lakes be better at certain times of year each lake has it's own peaks and valleyes from one year to the next. Forage population, forage movement, lake condition and musky population fluctuations as well as other factors can all play a part. Line them all up right and you have easy stupid fishing. Line them all up wrong and it can makes fools of us all. |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | I can think of many factors that come into play. Certainly shallower and darker waters warm faster and the fish will have spawned sooner and recovered sooner, so often these would be the first to have "good" bites in spring. Also, larger lakes would tend to concentrate fish in the prime spawning areas so that would be another plus to spring fishing as the population density in these areas would be huge compared to later in the season.
I think that lots of lakes that "aren't as good" a little later on in the season may just have feeding patterns that don't intersect with the patterns the bulk of the anglers are fishing. Might just be a great bite going on that nobody is targeting because of presentational difficulties or feeding time windows that are not when most of the anglers are out. If all you do is beat weeds and the fish aren't using weeds, you would tend to believe the lake is "off", when it might have a great trolling bite happening shallow over deep water. Same thing happens later on LOTW, when the fish have usually moved onto rocks. They might very well be biting like mad but if you are pounding weeds you'll miss it.
Obviously, turnover in fall is another time when water depth and temperatures will greatly affect the results, possibly leading to the statements that a lake is a good fall lake or a bad one.
Edited by Almost-B-Good 1/11/2010 1:08 PM
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Location: Northern IL | TTRAP,
If you had to catch "A" fish.
The single most important decision we can make when choosing a lake, regardless of the season, all things being equal, (fish pop, fish size, ect) is water color.
The clearer the water the tougher the fishing. Take it to the bank! |
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Why certain lakes at certain times of the year