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Location: Washington, PA | Depending on the river in WV, good chance water temps won't be as high as the lakes. not to mention there is a lot of dissolved oxygen (again depending on the particular river). I don't generally worry about it in the rivers compared to the lakes. I fish the rivers all summer. |
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| I agree with tomyv. There is a lot of current in a lot of the wv rivers. I think that helps a lot. The lakes are boiling so I try to stay off them. I caught 47.5 a little over a week ago and my buddy raised presumably the same fish 4 days later. We have been getting a lot of thunderstorms to which helps cool the rivers down.
Anyway there aren't any fish in wv anyways.
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| ulbian - 6/30/2014 10:22 AM
So basically when the temp is 79.999999 it's bombs away but when it crosses to 80 you better shut it down? Got it...
Use common sense. Obviously temperature and it's effects are on a continuum. Otherwise, you could say what's another 10th of a degree, and work yourself up to believing that fishing in 90 degree water would be fine. Reminds me of the old story (probably a myth) about the Japanese in WWII trying to train paratroopers to jump without parachutes on the theory that, if they could survive 20 feet, then surely 21, and so on into absurdity. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Buckner. What lakes are Boiling ??
What does water boil at ? 220*F+ Cut me a break..... |
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| I'm talking about lakes in wv. Don't get so excited. Just a statement. Excuse my ignorance. They are around 85 right now not boiling but hot.
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Location: Duluth, MN | Top H2O - 7/1/2014 10:11 PM
Buckner. What lakes are Boiling ??
What does water boil at ? 220*F+ Cut me a break.....
If you want to get on a guy and take things so literally that obviously weren't intended to be, you should probably get your facts straight. Water boils at 212 degrees. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | ammoman16 - 7/2/2014 8:19 AM
Top H2O - 7/1/2014 10:11 PM
Buckner. What lakes are Boiling ??
What does water boil at ? 220*F+ Cut me a break.....
If you want to get on a guy and take things so literally that obviously weren't intended to be, you should probably get your facts straight. Water boils at 212 degrees.
Haa.ha... I spent a yr. in WV. about 10 yrs. ago and never saw the lakes there get over that Magic Number"80*"......It must be a really HOT summer there this early into the summer........ My Bad. |
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Location: Smith Creek | That settles it. If the OP is heading to WV in mid July ten years ago he won't need to worry about the temps! |
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| I'd love to be fishing the lakes but stonewall was 80 the first week of June. |
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| buckner - 7/2/2014 11:27 AM
I'd love to be fishing the lakes but stonewall was 80 the first week of June.
Buckner is right, and the lakes in WV always get above 80 surface temps. Most streams in my area get above 80 too. I used to fish the lakes/streams when the water was hot but after I was educated about delayed mortality, I stopped. I have read articles about the facts of delayed mortality but I wish a biologist or muskies inc or someone would publish this so more people would at least understand that fishing hot water is not a good thing. |
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | I"m in Missouri and have always followed the 80 degree rule but have struggled with it too. Here the fish are not natural to the latitude and need to be stocked. Our Muskies don't live as long on this latitude. How long I am not sure but with a lower life expectancy even if I don't fish for them the bigger ones may be dead by the time I fish again.
In the most recent Missouri Muskie Management report the studies have shown that it will take a female 5 to 8 years to reach 36"s based on lake. While it takes the males a few years longer. The studies have also indicated that the life expectancy has surpassed by the time a Missouri Muskie reaches 50 inches.
However, one 50" fish to my knowledge has been caught.
The fish will be stocked so there is no danger of them not producing. A 48" fish may or may not be there this next fall. I want to believe that 48 will turn into a 50 but the data and numbers so far don't support that and if so it's rare.
I think the Southern States need to look at it a little differently than the Northern states where there waters don't get as hot, the fish live longer and where the Muskies are natural spawners to reproduce.
It's a struggle.
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