Should have added we have been fishing Harris the past six weeks and was on Kerr Lake on Monday. Temp was still in the upper 40's. It should be the same on Falls.
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that makes me feel better. My HB Helix is new so maybe it needs to be calibrated for temp? I'm reading surface temp in my kayak but shouldn't be that far off. How was the bite in December compared to now? And when will the fish start chasing more agressively? I need to tweak a few things but thought that longlining was a viable method all year from what I had gathered.
December and January are my freezer fish months. The cold water has the shad and thus the crappie down in the deeper parts of the lake, making it easy to find them. You may want to consider tightlining in those two cold months. With a couple of warm days this week and with a couple of days in the 70's next week, you should be fine longlining.
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