On Dec 16, 6:26*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
I don't know if you fishermen are aware of this, but fish species have
a preferred temperature range.

Of course the problem is that temperatures in fresh and salt water can
vary with depth/current/tide in that order. *You can correlate some
temperatures based on surface readings - it's not to hard to do.

How many of you folks do that? *I ask because a friend of mine sent me
an email about his experience with his transducer which was reading
four degrees too low. *That can affect a fishing trip big time.

Personally, I never even considered it thinking that four degrees
wouldn't have any effect, but apparently it does - four degrees can
take you right out of the preferred temp range for a lot of fish.

http://home.cfl.rr.com/floridafishing/temp.htm

Something to think about when your getting ready in the Spring - check
the accuracy of your transducer for temperature.

It's amazing what weather in general will do to fish. I was fishing in
a swamp in FL one time, and there was a place where a spring came up,
the normally tanin stained water was crystal clear. My canoe drifted
right over a decent sized bass. That morning a cold front had moved
in. Now, here's this bass in a couple of feet of water, my worm went
right over him, he didn't even move. So, just to see what was up, I
stuck a paddle in the sand to stop and I rubbed that worm all over his
face, even tapping him a little with the bullet weight. He never even
flinched. Only when I startled him by back padling a little.