Rising Water

[snakem]

Okay guys, just thought I would ask. What do you think the rising water in the upper rivers will do to the fishing with the warmer weather coming next week?

Snakem out

[focused fishing]

Snakem,

It should improve the bite up the rivers, the water will dirty up and warm faster thatn the rest of the lake moving fish shallow. My only concern is the amount of wood debris and trash that will line the bank, it can make it difficult to throw any type of moving bait (wart, jerkbait, etc..) their should be a good flipping bite but you won't be able to cover much water effectively.

EP

[Jason Essary]

Eric, what about the water temps? Ive been mumbling all weekend that now I have to deal with an inch rain run-off that is 34 degrees. I hope it dont put them back anouther couple weeks.

[skeeter]

Eric, what about the water temps? Ive been mumbling all weekend that now I have to deal with an inch rain run-off that is 34 degrees. I hope it dont put them back anouther couple weeks.

Jason, Like you, I am concerned about what this 1.5 inches of super cold rain will do to water temps ? Can't be anything good... Found only 43 degrees on main lake in Baxter area late Friday afternoon and 49 back in only a couple of coves. Shad were everywhere we looked in the coves, you could just about walk on them and nothing was into them. No predator fish visible on electronics and we searched, fished and struck out for six hours. Used PB&J jig n'chunk, swam three different color single tail grubs on 1/8 oz. heads in varying depths and had one angler in the boat throwing a wart. Nothing, not even a bump. We did notice a large school of bluegill had moved into a shallow cove just before sundown but this cold has probably run them back out.

[focused fishing]

Eric, what about the water temps? Ive been mumbling all weekend that now I have to deal with an inch rain run-off that is 34 degrees. I hope it dont put them back anouther couple weeks.

I think any drop in temperature will be temporary (a day or two) at most. We've got a good warming trend, started today, with sunny days and highs in the 60's predicted for a couple of days then some warm rain toward the end of the week. All and all I feel like we will get a pretty significant temperature increase in the rivers and backs of creeks by the weekend. Of course that's all based on the current forcast and their track record this year sucks.

skeeter,

I fished Baxter on last Thursday myself and your right it was the dead sea. Hopefully this will turn around by the weekend, everything is looking good; more sunshine, extended higher temps and longer days should result in warmer temps. 1.5" of cold rain is a bunch but it takes more than that to significantly drop the water temps, if the forecast is accurate we should be moving in the right direction.

Besides, what else ya gonna do this weekend?

EP

[bigredbirdfan]

Last night the James in Spfd looked like carmel. Sure it was be that way down there soon.

[skeeter]

I think any drop in temperature will be temporary (a day or two) at most. We've got a good warming trend, started today, with sunny days and highs in the 60's predicted for a couple of days then some warm rain toward the end of the week. All and all I feel like we will get a pretty significant temperature increase in the rivers and backs of creeks by the weekend. Of course that's all based on the current forcast and their track record this year sucks.

skeeter,

I fished Baxter on last Thursday myself and your right it was the dead sea. Hopefully this will turn around by the weekend, everything is looking good; more sunshine, extended higher temps and longer days should result in warmer temps. 1.5" of cold rain is a bunch but it takes more than that to significantly drop the water temps, if the forecast is accurate we should be moving in the right direction.

Besides, what else ya gonna do this weekend?

EP

IMHO, warm(er) rain will be the key along with Sun and wind, but we need the wind to come from the South. It's been blowing out of the North for so long I think it forgot where South is.

Another good sign is the nighttime temps have not been falling below freezing. With the strong sunshine Monday, I think a lot of the weekend run-off still flowing into the Lake got warmed up. The Sun was so strong I had to put a hat on my "follically challenged" melon while I was scraping paint off our old siding.