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Post by oxankle on Oct 31, 2015 1:40:54 GMT
I'm in strange country here on Bull Shoals lake in Arkansas. Back when I was managing fish ponds for our gun club I quit feeding catfish when the water temp dropped below 50F as my books said the fish quit feeding at that temperature.
What bites here in cold weather? Will big lakes have some holes warm enough for cats to bite? What other fish are active and feeding in cold weather? Maybe Crappie?
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Post by bowdonkey on Oct 31, 2015 16:43:44 GMT
I'll be watching this thread. I never really gave it any thought about water temps and fish biting. Up here in northern MN we do alot of under ice fishing. It's a religion for some folks. Here it's crappies, northerns, the odd muskie, walleyes are the main targets. In Walker they have an annual burbot festival. Some folks go further north and go for trout. This will be interesting for sure, if the same specie of fish is different in feeding habits due to longitude.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2015 4:29:26 GMT
I would say in your area same as here Trout and Goggle Eye. Bluecats bite best when outside temperatures are around zero degrees.
Of course here the river never freezes.
Rockpile
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Post by oxankle on Nov 2, 2015 23:30:04 GMT
Strange, Rock, but you have reminded me that Dad and my uncles fished the deep holes for bluecats in Winter. I will have to look for bait sources. They used cut mullet. I will have to make myself a trap for perch or find a place to cast net shad.
We lived on the Gulf coast and to get to river fishing we had to drive about twenty miles to a point about five miles above the mouth of the Guadeloupe river in Texas. At times it was possible to catch mullet in the mouth of the river, and even now and then a redfish. The cats stayed upstream from the tidal flow. A bit farther up was a big, shallow lake where we netted buffalo in the winter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 3:54:50 GMT
Best Luck with Cut Shad.
Don't know if they do it in your area but around here on small rivers the Gig Suckers all Winter at night.
Rockpile
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Post by oxankle on Nov 5, 2015 21:39:23 GMT
Rock; you are just full of good ideas.
I have with me my Dad's old flounder gig; a three-tined pitchfork with the tines straightened and the center cut a bit shorter. I've kept it for over 50 years without the handle. There is a fellow here who sells good American-made hickory handles for $8 and will put them on for another $2. That gig will have a new handle next week when I go to town.
The handle-man is a national treasure. Far better to have a good American-steel implement even 50 or 60 years old with a good new handle than the Chinese trash for sale these days. Forks, spades, rakes, hoes, he does them all. Somewhere near here there is still a handle factory making the handles we are used to instead of the straight broom-stick or plastic-covered steel we see so much of nowadays.
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