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Location: South Bend, Indiana | We're all aware of this Spring's early warm-up and summer-like weather. Here in the Indiana lakes I fish, the water temps have risen from 40 degrees to 64 in ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!! It's been 80 here everyday. At first I was joyous about the weather, but now I am wondering if this weather has confused the hell outta the muskies! A cool down is already forcasted for this weekend, and I have a feeling cooler temps are on their way after that. What are your thoughts? Will it help, or hurt this year's fishing? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Neither. Should stabilize once the jet stream stops this insane behavior, but looks like warm temps in the near future even past the coming cold front. The following week up here looks pretty close to normal. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Cancel the Season!! |
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| We have had some warm endings to winter down here more than once since I have been here, but generally it cools back off again and the water does too. What can happen is an early spawn and then fish hang around and bite for a while post spawn because the temps are still comfortable.
I think this is preferrable to a cold spring and then when it finally starts warming, goes through the spawn and runs the fish out into deep water for the rest of the summer. Changes the fishing and bait progressions though. |
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Location: Michigan | I am just hoping it cools down a little bit because if it doesn't the lakes will get to 80degrees with no problem and we'll have a couple months of no fishing. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Many of the area lakes will be open today. Crappies are gonna be caught. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Sounds like someone will be having a fresh fish dinner soon... 
Steve |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Even if we start getting normal patterns, the ice is gone, lakes will continue to get warmer. Weed growth may just be insane by the time the Musky opener happens. |
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Location: Tower, Lake Vermilion | OMG!!!
You may recall the spring of 2010 was also very warm and we had the earliest iceout on record here on Lake Vermilion. 2010 was one of my best Muskie seasons of all time, so shut off the panic button.
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Location: NE Wisconsin | In 1996 Wisconsin had a late spring, my records show a lackluster muskie season. In 2011 we had a late spring here in WI and many I talk to had a below average year muskie fishing. To me a late spring means a possible slow muskie season and an early spring means better then normal. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Johnnie - 3/20/2012 7:23 PM
In 1996 Wisconsin had a late spring, my records show a lackluster muskie season. In 2011 we had a late spring here in WI and many I talk to had a below average year muskie fishing. To me a late spring means a possible slow muskie season and an early spring means better then normal.
All depends on where/how you fish I guess. Last year was the best in several on the lakes/rivers I fish in WI. Record catch at our spring outing and Todds PMC. Canada and MN was great to us too. Late spring coupled with high flows made for excellent early season fishing last year on the rivers. We'll see what hapens this year. Was out today and had 47 degree temps main channel, fishing eyes. Thats not far from what we had on opener 2011. I am thinking with the stable water levels coming, that the spawn should be halfway productive this year, which would be nice.
Need rain! |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Fish still have to eat.
They can't change lakes.
This is more confirmation of what I always have said as shown below! |
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Location: Northern IL | Its impossible to predict.
A fisherman's spring time exuberance may fade with one good cold front, and an entire season can be changed or wrecked to one major cold front.
I'm always rooting for an ole fashion hot summer with extended periods between fronts, but if I had to predict what kind of a year this be with what we have right now, I'd say its going to be a good season here in the midwest "if" things only turn to average. However, if the weather and water conditions stay relatively stable, I say for those who spend their time fishing at the weedline and deeper it could be a very good season, a lot of, ifs...
Bottom line is nobody knows and like global warming, we can't do a thing about it but adapt.
Edited by jerryb 3/21/2012 2:33 PM
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| There's no such thing at Global Warming. Get that term out of your heads and out of your vocabulary.
It's all just weather.
Mankind isn't going to single handedly disrupt the weather patterns. We're too microscopic ourselves in the big scheme of things. We're merely a blip on the radar in regards to size and time.
The Politically Correct term "Global Warming" is nothing more than a scare tactic for the politicians to use to force change for something that's unfounded. It's all just political posturing to guilt you into buying sub-par electric/hybrid vehicles and different light bulbs.
We, as humans, don't have enough documented history of weather patterns and temp.
I'm a firm believer that our weather comes and goes in cycles. If/and/or when Mother Nature needs to take back over to course correct herself...she will.
No one's mentioned any of this heat wave being linked to or associated with the massive solar flares these past few weeks and how big they were and how far out into space they reached and how "close" they came to Earth.
One thing is for certain though, it's going to be a bad year for allergies and bugs though since we never got a winter to kill any thing off from last year to have wiped the slate clean to start over fresh this year.
Who's to say that this next Winter season we don't have a Blizzard that starts on November 1st and the blizzard-like conditions and cold temps stay around till April of 2013? Then will it be then coined as Global Cooling? Then back and forth, back and forth...like a tennis ball over the net.
So this year started off early and got hot early. So be it....
Edited by MACK 3/21/2012 4:22 PM
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| Ice went out on Crescent on the 21st of March. Earliest ever according to my records. |
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| Good
Ice went out on twin cities lakes march 16 2000
It was my best season ever. |
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Location: Northern IL | Take it easy there Mack, I'm with ya, was just making the point we as fishermen can't control the weather good or bad. What looks good today can change in a quick way tomorrow. We hope for stability but remain flexible in our presentation of lures. |
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