Thread: Water temp?

In my experience the daylight hours can play a bigger role in the fall than water temperature. There should be fish already in fall patterns now. Probably not all of them but some should be already on deep brush and docks.
Hopefully I'll get to go this weekend and find out

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I fished almost all day Friday. The only ones I found were on a laydown in 15-16 feet on a creek right where it runs into the river. And I caught them early.


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Water temp is the big driver. We need highs only in the mid 70's in the afternoon (lower at night). Ideally upper 60's. This will bring up to Oxygen levels and flood the creeks and shallow bays with shad. Where the baitfish are the Crappie will follow.

Anywhere from 80 down to 50 I believe that crappie can be anywhere they want to be. And that is chasing bait fish. 80 is a tough stretch for bait to be up and visble but they will travel up creek in the 6-10 ft range waiting for the flats to get down to the low to mid 70's. Then the bait can be anywhere they choose to be which is typically in shallows to spawn and the crappie will follow. Ditch proved that at Barron Fork in spades. This is only my observation in our area of watershed Wheeler. Areas that hold water level and contain good water docks flourish this time of year because they have their own tiny ecosystems. Richard Gene proves this weekly. I recommend a dairy to keep up with success and failures to rely on and build off each year. I also add entries of the highly successful people here. Not to return to their spots but to translate their conditions to my own personal areas. I guarantee you If you went back on crappie.com to this time one year ago give or take a week there is a similar report from DB of him wacking fish at Barron Fork. Fish are a creature of habit and we should be too.

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Sounds like great advice. Thank you to everyone that took time to respond.





QUOTE=catchNgrease;4296629]Anywhere from 80 down to 50 I believe that crappie can be anywhere they want to be. And that is chasing bait fish. 80 is a tough stretch for bait to be up and visble but they will travel up creek in the 6-10 ft range waiting for the flats to get down to the low to mid 70's. Then the bait can be anywhere they choose to be which is typically in shallows to spawn and the crappie will follow. Ditch proved that at Barron Fork in spades. This is only my observation in our area of watershed Wheeler. Areas that hold water level and contain good water docks flourish this time of year because they have their own tiny ecosystems. Richard Gene proves this weekly. I recommend a dairy to keep up with success and failures to rely on and build off each year. I also add entries of the highly successful people here. Not to return to their spots but to translate their conditions to my own personal areas. I guarantee you If you went back on crappie.com to this time one year ago give or take a week there is a similar report from DB of him wacking fish at Barron Fork. Fish are a creature of habit and we should be too.

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I found water temps 67-68 degrees really had the fish hammering anything I presented to them from plastics to minners. Good luck on the water.

I got a feeling when the pressure stabilizes from this system coming this weekend its going to be game on

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Originally Posted by catchNgrease

I got a feeling when the pressure stabilizes from this system coming this weekend its going to be game on

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OH YEAH!!!


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