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Location: sw pa | just wondering because i have heard its not worth it to fish when the water level is on the fall. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | On rivers there are no rules - fish when you can! River fish adapt.
Have fun!
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Location: The desert | Yep, fish anytime. No bad time on a river. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I agree with my fellow river rats, no bad time. |
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Location: Pittsburgh PA | I agree with them guys fish as much as you can high or low they adapt ,but I do have very good luck when river clarity is beginning to change.ON the other hand It was good when you could not even get a boat out without walking it draging it out of the launch. |
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Location: sw pa | thanks guys i thought that would be the answer |
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| When trout fishing I've always found that river stable is good, river rising is best and river falling is terrible. I fish tailwaters some and am not sure why exactly the river falling is bad-one reason though is that the trout are moving back from areas they had occupied when the water was high. They move out of the fast water up onto what was previously dry ground. When the water starts falling they move back to the other areas-otherwise they would be on dry ground. When the water is rising, they do not instantly move however. They hold their positions until it's beneficial to move. Also, with rising water-especially fast rising water- you typically get a massive influx of food into the system. All of the insects that had been on dry land are now in the water which doesn't necessarily create a feeding frency, but it increases feeding.
Now, whether all of that is applicable to musky, I don't know. But I gotta think it impacts the fishing in a similar manner because the food chain will react in the same way. It's hard to do a test, however, since you're not dealing with the quantities of fish like trout. |
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| Very well said Kyle! I agree with you and I think Joel does too! Fishing during Falling water levels pretty much sucks!
Brian
Edited by muskie24/7 2/17/2009 6:29 PM
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Location: Grand Rapids MN | My vote is for stable since once you find fish they tend to hold and usually have a few fish in a spot. Rise or fall the fish are on the move and makes it tougher. |
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Location: sw pa | pretty much. |
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| here on detroit river its about water clarity and if the baits moved in. thats the only factors we deal with. |
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Location: VA | Same as Woodieb8 here in VA. It's way more about water clarity than rise or fall. However, (there's always one of those!) like said above, the rising waters are usually better than falling. Rising waters push fish to rise in the water column and falling does the opposite and sends them deeper.
DR |
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Location: North-Central WI | I spend a large amount of time on the Wisconsin River and it's flowages - without a doubt, rising water is primo, although the "window" may be shorter than expected. With rising water, fish move shallower, often much shallower than during stable conditions, and feed aggressively. With rising water fish begin vacating the shallows instead opting for secondary spots in respect to depth (such as a secondary break, shelf adjacent to shallows, etc.). Locating and catching muskies in fallingn water conditions for me has meant remaining mobile as fish scatter and often fishing deeper than usual.
Tight lines,
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