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So here's the deal, White Bass start to run hard up the creeks at 50 degree water temp. The waters on Greers I've been fishing have been around 48, and the whites are up in around 10-6 ft of water where I've been catching em.
The question: With them getting ready to spawn, and this cold front coming through, I expect the water temp to drop a degree or two. Will this force them back out deeper or into even more shallow water up the creek?
Thank you guys!
Bump, need some wisdom here guys!
It could drop the temperature a degree or two if it is a cold rain. They may back off a bit or they may not. On large corps lakes, the upper tributaries warm up the quickest, so it may not have much of an impact. Another thing, I have noticed that a rain that increases the flow a bit will also trigger walleye and white bass to make their big push. This rain may actually kick things into high gear.Good luck.
I glad to see someone who fishes for the whites and keep them for table fare.
Kind of my observation as well. If you get a little pulse of water in the tributaries at about the right time, it triggers them to head up the creek. I am ready for some spring white bass fishing. With the drought its been a couple years since I have experienced the wear yourself out white bass fishing.Quote:
Originally Posted by D10
Does anyone know if norfork is a good white bass lake? Im going to be camping close to Bennett's bayou and wondering if it has a creek or anything running into the lake?
Most larger COE lakes with rivers being dammed have good populations of Whites. Even Nimrod being shallow and gets awful warm in summer has a limited run of Whites each spring up the river. I have caught good numbers a few times in winter / early spring actually looking for Crappie. They tend to bunch up in deep holes upriver before making their run up. Very few actually target them here.
Cant speek for bennetts bayou, but get ya an ultralight and a white rooster tail head to diamond bay and into the back. Throw at the banks slow row back and hang on!
I've just never really cared for white bass myself. Id rather eat a green carp or a Kentucky! Bennett's bayou is good for small mouth if you can get up the creek above walkers? "Wade fish". Don't over look the crappie while you'r there in walkers cove around boat docks. I have a cabin a Cranfield area but don't fish the lake to much. Just recreation lake for us during the summer. It has lots of fish to be caught tho!
Thanks for the responses! I won't be able to make it back out until Wednesday (work), but I'm expecting to find them a little more upstream now. Could get HOT (fishing wise) end of this week and into next week. Then after the White Spawn, here come the hybrids...