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Location: Almond, WI | Rain/runoff/rising water affects a flowage a lot, not so much the case on natural lakes that I've noticed.
Seasonal movement in flowages are pretty basic--during spring, fall, and rising water they tend to move upstream and shallow. Summer they scatter generally from the channel areas. Significant rain will push them back to areas of high current (below a dam or spillway), high heat will push them to cool water inlets (like a trout stream). Cold water will push them to warm water inlets (dam discharge, storm drain pipes, waste water treatment). Late fall they will migrate into deep holes (often in slack water bends). This applies to all gamefish species in my experience. Many flowages lack weed growth, making wood, rocks, and bottom contours more important. Flowage fish will often slide up far shallower than lake fish, and obviously flowages tend to have quite dark water.
I think that flowage fish are less temperamental but move around a lot more making them harder to find at times. |
