Warming Trend?

[papajoe222]

The mid-west will be experiencing an Indian summer over the next five days or so. With water temps. currently in the upper 50's, how much will the slight increase in surface temp. affect fish location? I'm thinking it would move the bait fish up in the water column and that my initial search should start there.

[T-Billy]

19 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

I'm thinking it would move the bait fish up in the water column and that my initial search should start there.

 Thick, shallow wood tangles over clay and shale is where I'll be starting. Today was tough. 2nd day behind a strong front. Morning surface temp has fallen from 58 four days ago to 51 this morning. The only bites I could come up with today were pitching shallow brush, and those fish were buried way back in the thickets. Stable, warmer weather and sunshine for the next four days, and I'm off 9 of the next 11. I'm gonna be grindin. It's big girl season.

[scaleface]

Hows the wind been ? Its been brutal here . Havent fished in three weeks . The weather report is predicting manageable winds later this week but with dropping temperatures .  Rip rap and  steep rocky banks have been productive in the past during  Indian summer days with med diving crankbaits . The 100 acre lake I plan on fishing isnt built like that . I'm just going to start at the dam and fish my way all the way around it .

[papajoe222]

The wind over the week-end was brutal. It stormed late last night and the wind died down. I got on the water for a few hours.  Wood and gravel were the keys to catching and you hit the nail on the head...........crankbaits.

10 hours ago, scaleface said:

Hows the wind been ?

 

[slonezp]

A buddy who lives on a lake in Antioch texted me some pics of some fatties.  The bite is on.

[BigAngus752]

Down here the bite is definitely not "on".  It's as tough as late summer.  Actually tougher.  We had a massive cold snap a couple weeks ago.  Dropped water temps from mid 60's to low 50's.  Many of the bass fisherman assumed it would move the baitfish...but it didn't.  Weather has come back to Indian summer but water temps are still holding 50-55.  Still no baitfish movement.  I stopped by a BFL weigh in an hour south of me last weekend.  These guys are travelling tourney guys, not hacks like me.  They were fishing a lake that always need 20lbs to place.  None even brought in a bag.  One boat had 4 fish.  A few had 2.  Most had none.  The baitfish are still suspended over deep water.  

 

This just proves to me that water temps don't matter in comparison to date.  Baitfish and bass defintely have highly accurate calendars in their heads.  I'm looking ahead a couple weeks, then I'll be taking some time off work.  

[fishingtx]

Bite is easy to get down here if you know how to catch them right now. Not many fatties yet fish are getting thicker, lots of the females have fairly developed eggs right now.

Also the wind is horrible right now.