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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Taken from another board.
I would like to know, when you hear and read about walleye spawning temperatures and preferred temp. ranges. Is this the surface temp or fish depth? This goes for crankbait selection as well. In temp ranges from 50-55 degrees us moderate action cranks. Are the references to temperature all surfaces readings?
It maybe a stupid question but I gotta know.
Jay.
Jay.
If this was a question on a Salmon fishing board the answer might be different. Salmon guys are always looking for that 48 to 52 degree layer in the water column where salmon look for and find most of their preferred forage. And a lot of them invest in temperature gauges that give them the true temperature readings right at the downrigger ball to zero in on this colder/warmer layer.
Walleye fishermen (for the most part) are graph and surface temperature watchers. Walleyes forage and roam freely and comfortably in many temperature ranges. With their forage choices being so diverse, they don't need to seek out (even though they often will) certain prey in specific temperature ranges in the water column, to find a particular meal. And if you were talking about flowing rivers. There is very little difference in both the top and bottom temps unless the river is very deep and vast. Capt. Dan.
Edited by walleye express 4/29/2007 8:59 AM
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