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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Where do you like the water temps for maximum action? It seems my fishing really cooks here in Oneida County when the temps are 60 to 68 degrees, and slows a bit once warmer. Maybe it's the lakes I fish, maybe the techniques, but the best early fishing for me is in that range. A couple of my best years the temps never got warmer that 68, and numbers were really up for me. How about you? |
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Posts: 1996
Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I'm a big fan of anything between 64-72. Once it gets over 72 it seems as if they scatter a bit and are harder to locate. |
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Location: The desert | I like when the water temp drops a few degrees from what it had been. Usually a 2 degree drop is what I like to look for. No real set temp on what I like to target. Although if I had to pick it would be around 62. |
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| Hi Steve,
My favorite water temps are anything above 32 degress. |
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Location: Illinois |
I like the water between 40-48 degrees. I think prespawn fish are very willing to eat and they are usually fairly predictable in terms of general locations. It seems like after the spawn the muskies scatter and are tougher to locate. This is in Northern Illinois so it may be relevant only to the area. |
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| slowly falling in the sept oct,,with the 'first' frost nite a big trigger |
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Location: Anchorage | To just move fish, regardless of size, 64-68 degrees. For bigger fish, fall warming trends pushing it back towards 50-55 degrees. |
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| In general 62 to 72, but late season under 40 is the best time for a big heavy |
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| best is 70-72 summer bite. |
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Location: SE, WI. | My favored water temps...64 - 73. The fish just seem to want to start chasing and seem to be at their optimum aggressivness. Spinners, Cranks, and Topwater seem to be the BEST baits for #'s and big fish!!!;) |
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| once October gets here...anything under 40 is GREAT |
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| I second Hunter4's vote! |
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| I've had the best luck between 65 and 72. Seems like there everywhere I fish, and always hungry. |
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| My numbers are always higher when the water temps are not as warm. I'd say best years for me match Steve Worrall's. 60 - 68 will get you lots of action from numerous fish of all sizes.
Through the year, when things get above 75, I find fishing slow and very spotty. Feeding windows are small and not plentiful. I have to work harder for the fish, even though they may show themselves...
Fall: Any warming trend.
Steve |
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Posts: 1996
Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I am really surprised at the number of people that favor warming trends in the fall. Nearly all of my experiences with those conditions are rotten. In the fall give me steadily but slowly decreasing water temps and I will grin like a little school kid. |
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Location: nationwide | For topwater my favorite temperature range would be 70-72 degrees. For fall fishing I like anything below 45 degrees and usually the colder the better, as long as it does not form ice. We do catch fish with ice on the lake but it just makes things more difficult.
Corey Meyer |
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| I think fall warming trends can have different effects on different lakes/areas...in Madison fall warming trends usually stink..now up north on some lakes around Mercer I have done very well on nice warm October days including a 6 fish and 5 fish days in the last 2 seasons..maybe you just fish the wrong lakes Norman
For me I like temps in the summer at 68-74, in fall anything under 50...and I typically hate 50-60 in the fall... |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | I like rising water temps the first part of the year up to around a maximum of 75 degrees or so. During the heat of the summer I like temps in the low 70's, and fairly steady (real hard to do). In the fall I like falling water temps down to around 40 degrees (Tullibee spawning temps).
I suspect that the fish sort of expect rising water temps in the spring, steady water temps in the summer, and falling water temps in the fall. Anything other than this makes them unhappy for a day or two
But anything above 32 is O.K. also.
Doug Johnson
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| I like the seasonal peaks in general, but that varies a bit. I guess the low 60's and rising captures it early, and then 60 slowly dropping to mid 50's in late Sept/Oct tends to be go time for the top. Late fall it seems it just needs to get cold and hold there for awhile. It does seem the peaks occur a bity differently each year, with weather trends being more important. The summer peak(longest lasting) might be easiest to pinpoint at the low 70 degree mark or so in latitudes such as around here. |
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| Fall below 44-degrees and have broken ice on rivers to fish. Fly fishing fall it seems that 48 seems to stop their interest in flies. Rest of the time 60-68...topwater flies over 70. |
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