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| I was on a central MN lake Friday and was amazed at how warm the water temp was. 83 degrees. Never have seen it that high on this lake. I saw two floaters, no idea what killed them so it would be speculation on my part that it had anything to do with water temps.
With temps in the 90's forecast all week it will surely be higher by the weekend.
I did spend some time in the water, and diving down about 10 feet you could feel a noticeable change in the temp, but it was like a bath tub the first 10 feet. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Too warm here too. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | the steam-bath has arrived northern wisconsin as of this hot, nasty, sticky, foggy morning ...
looking forward to reading the great water temp. debate of 2010 |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I'm fishing bluegills.
And Bass.
And I'm going to eat some of them.
Tasty. |
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Location: N.FIB | what are the water temps up your way steve,are they all over 80,even the deeper lakes. |
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| Steve, thin out those voracious bluegills. I was being ravaged by them while trying to flounder around in the water last week.
Those little buggers are relentless, biting every bit of exposed skin I had.
Not safe to swim in the water with those things. LOL |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Wow is right.Water temp here is 91* and heres the air temp for the next five days not including heat index that will average 105 down here....I hate summer in the south.
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| missourimuskyhunter - 8/9/2010 11:52 AM
Wow is right.Water temp here is 91* and heres the air temp for the next five days not including heat index that will average 105 down here....I hate summer in the south.
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Ouch!! That is crazy. At those temps the water doesnt even feel wet anymore.  |
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Location: South East Wisconsin | We got 80 temps down here in S.E. WI aswell. Not fishing. |
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Location: New Hope MN | I'm glad I'm not fishing for the next two weeks. I usually fish by myself and my times from net-pic-release are longer than when I have anopther guy in the boat... I'd feel terrible killing one. My Nephew + Gills = fun time! |
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| We had 110 indexes last week down here, and going back up again.
Nice thing about WI, it can turn around in just a few days and be perfectly fishable again.
I usually take June July and August off from musky fishing.
I think of it as my "winter". |
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Location: MPLS, MN | Out of curiosity, what temps do you guys stop fishing? |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | The Vilas lakes I fished this past weekend were between 73-76°. It helps it was 45° on the way to the lake Sat morning. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It's 87 in Rhinelander right now, and forecast to be that warm or warmer until Friday. I'll be cooking under the South Dakota sun at the South Dakota Walleye Classic webcasting an Anglers Insight Marketing event Thursday to Saturday, then in Brainerd Monday meeting with Lindner Media...so no fishing for me either way.
The temps were in the high 70's the last few trips, and hit 80 degrees during my guide trip last Thursday on Moen. (Man is THAT lake dark with all the run off right now from the heavy rains, looks like strong coffee) With the 90 degree temps and warm nights, it'll take some serious thundershowers to keep the temps down. |
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| What I do when the temps are this high is fish the rivers. Water temps are cooler and the fishing really turns on in July and August. |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Obfuscate Musky - 8/9/2010 2:01 PM
Out of curiosity, what temps do you guys stop fishing?
Depends on what part of musky country you fish....surface temp in the northern most part of the musky range could be 80* at the surface,but in the 70's just a few inches below the surface.Now in the southern range where hot temps stay around for so long,you could fish waters that top 80* the first few days or so,but have to quit due to 80* going deep as 15-20ft below the surface since hot weather will be around for a while....kinda scary down here right now for any species of fish.It been mid 90's for at least a month down here |
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| Yes it's warm now but check out the temps for next week. They are going to fall dramatically, into the 60s in Minnesota and Canada. That should bring things down.
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Location: Hayward, WI | Interesting. They haven't been that warm here in the Stone Lake/Hayward area. The mid sized lakes I have been on were around 76-77 for the most part this weekend. I'm sure today heated the surface temps up temporarily. HOT today.
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| missourimuskyhunter - 8/9/2010 8:02 PM
Obfuscate Musky - 8/9/2010 2:01 PM
Out of curiosity, what temps do you guys stop fishing?
Depends on what part of musky country you fish....surface temp in the northern most part of the musky range could be 80* at the surface,but in the 70's just a few inches below the surface.Now in the southern range where hot temps stay around for so long,you could fish waters that top 80* the first few days or so,but have to quit due to 80* going deep as 15-20ft below the surface since hot weather will be around for a while....kinda scary down here right now for any species of fish.It been mid 90's for at least a month down here
Very true. The Surface temp was 83 degrees on the lake I was on, but when I was in the water and dove down to about 10 feet it was considerably cooler. I would say probably 10 degrees even. Just a guess, no temp gauge, but it felt soo much cooler. |
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Location: menasha wi 54952 | I was on a muskie lake in Forest County and the water temp was never higher than 75 degrees. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Pelican tomorrow for League, if it's under 80 degrees, we will fish. If not, we'll go in and have dinner, and wait for the meeting at 9. |
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| Haven"t fished northern IIllinois since mid to late June . Its been way too hot . |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Just hit 80 here this weekend, can't find anyone that remembers it this high before. |
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| On Leech Lake yesterday - 82.8 surface temp on the main lake, 81ish in Walker, Bay. 83.5 yesterday morning on a smaller lake south of town. Loons grouping up already in Walker Bay in groups up to 40 birds already.
Water temps on the lakes I fished last week around Vermilion Bay, Ontario, all around 73 following a pretty heavy cold front and hail storm which occurred early in the week - north winds all week.
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Cave Run lake surface temp 85* at 25 ft. 72* |
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Location: Detroint Lakes, MN |
Since fish are in the net, un-hooked and then revived in the top of the water column, how cool is it several feet down doesn't really matter.
All our MI league nights have been cancelled since last week until water cools down in here in central MN.
Temps over 80 degrees on Big Detroit and Pelican. Some floaters have been found lately.
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| a pic is worth a thousand words..... this is the time of the year when we find floaters on early in the week.
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| Wow, I hadn't been out since Friday and temps jumped up to the mid to upper 80's on Minnetonka. Officially pulling the pin till it drops. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Temps like Travis said in N Wisco were 73-75 all last week when I was up there. Down in SE Wisco, they are cooking. I s'pose that means I need to go salmon fishing. Doh! |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | yes you do joel |
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Location: Contrarian Island | haven't casted a musky bait in Madison since the last week of June...imo they have been too high since then...buddy saw a couple floaters recently. Hope guys do the water release or just wait til it cools down for a while.
funny to look at the muskiesinc registered fish for the month of july and see all the fish registered by guys who claimed to be done til it cooled. guess it cooled down and I missed it.
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| We need a cold front. Not only would it bring down the water temps but i think it could turn the fish on. We need some kind of weather change. |
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| i just booked Oct 22-24 at Skyview for the annual Presque Isle (don't call it an outing) Event. hope it's cool enough to fish by then... 
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Location: Des Moines IA | It's been scorching over here in Iowa. We have another Heat Index warning on Thursday. Not to mention WAY too much rain. Since I can't go fishin' I'm workin' every weekend I can. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | someone checked the water temps on Mendota in Madison...a 9,000 acre lake and found 77 degrees all the way down to 30 feet...anyone out musky fishing in Madison right now that thinks they are releasing the fish back into cooler temps is sadly mistaken... |
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| BNelson - 8/11/2010 10:47 AM
someone checked the water temps on Mendota in Madison...a 9,000 acre lake and found 77 degrees all the way down to 30 feet...anyone out musky fishing in Madison right now that thinks they are releasing the fish back into cooler temps is sadly mistaken...
Wow, that is unreal temps to that depth.
Not familiar with that body of water, but is it a stained or clear water lake?
My guess would be stained, but I am curious to know. |
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| I can't believe there are still guys fishing for skis' with these high water temps. Spoke to a friend today who knows of some guides fishing SE WI lakes during these times of high water temps and seemingly not caring about the resource. Thanks to all the guys who are sitting out the warm water waiting for cooler water. That's the way to preserve the resource. |
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| GEEEZ guys. Just go bass fishing will ya! |
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| alot of people dont care....assume that if the fish goes down and barely swims away that it lives.....i posted awhile back i was on a lake in MN.....in august, super clear water, i could see down about 12 ft, it was flat calm and i saw about 15 dead muskies dead on the bottom....most of them dont float when they are dead, they sink and you dont see it or know about it!!!!!!! |
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| Why is it that the travelling guides stop when the water temp reaches a certain temp on their home water but they dont stop when they are in MN? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | a good way to look at it is that it will be a very good year for the turtles ... |
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Location: musky waters of SE, WI | I wasn't on here 2 years ago, was there always a bunch of talk about water temps being to hot? It just seems people are talking about it more because of last year being an "off" year where water temps never got over 80 in SE WI. This summer has been pretty normal for the way summers usually go, 80-85 degrees out. What was the talk before last year? And Im not for fishing skis in super hot water, just wondering thats all. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | last year i think it snowed in june and summer didn't show up until september. temps. were so cold in the spring-early summer that some species didn't spawn and that was a concern and discussion topic i do remember.
the preachers who fish right through it get their tickets punched to easily IMO ... i've also heard the rhetoric only to see the same people on the water in the swealtering heat. now, how can you "nicely" put them where they belong? sigh ... protect the fish? or protect people's feelings?
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Location: Madtown, WI | Here is a link to real time buoy data on Lake Mendota, I wish there was one on every lake!
http://metobs.ssec.wisc.edu/buoy/ |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Crazy how some guides here is SE wisconsin are still booking trips and fishing as much as they can. I have canceled almost all of the last three weeks and all of this week. I did do a few that were water release only trips and had a couple fish caught on weedlines in late July that got a quick picture taken of them for clients.
I know of a few local guides that are out trolling deep water. One of them puts the fish in the livewell after every catch and sets back up trolling then takes a picture and tosses them back in LSC style.
I just don't get it.
Another guy called me Monday night and asked if I knew anyone who would take a 41-incher. He caught it casting a Mag Dawg and it died. He couldn't figure it out. The bad part was both of them kept on fishing knowing the fish was going to spoil in the live well. WTF.
I have seen 6 over 48-inches floating this season and 15 total floaters. Thats when I was fishing back in July.
Come on people. Give the fish a break.
A buddy called me Wednesday night and said lots of guys were trolling deep water and others were casting all over Pewaukee Lake.
Hurts to not be on the water BUT it hurts more to hear about all the guys who don't give a Shmitt.
I am tempted to call a few of the local guides and try to book trips now and ask what they think about others keeping off the lake due to the heat. Would be interesting to hear some of those answers. I bet money rules over respecting the resource.
Fall food plots, trail cameras and cleaning out shooting lanes has been my job lately instead of guide jobs. I know I will not have time later with all the rescheduling I have done in the last few weeks. With all my stuff done now all I need is the water to cool under 80 and it's back on the water every day till November. Then it's BUCKS and MUSKY.
Sorry for the long post. I had to VENT a bit. |
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