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Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886014 02/13/21 07:03 PM
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JPeel TFF Celebrity Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 5,746 Arizona	Originally Posted by Ken A. The pond behind my home in DFW just froze over. better throw the workhorse or gliding gizzard to break through! the fisherman formerly known as Blu-Ranger....

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Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886051 02/13/21 07:26 PM
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Alan Pro Angler A Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 558 New Waverly	I grew up fishing in Indiana in the 60's and right when the ice would break up the bass would turn on. Never had a water temp gauge but ice was still floating around. I guess about 35-38 degrees. Our go to bait was a black johnson minnow with a split tail eel reeled as slow as possible. The bite would be good in 4 to 8 foot of water for about 3 days then it would stop until the water reached mid 40's. I moved here in 1980. Best move I ever made. Never knew why they would bite after ice out but you could count on it. 2000 518dvx 200 efi Mercury

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886064 02/13/21 07:33 PM
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Alan Pro Angler A Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 558 New Waverly	In Texas low 40's is the coldest I've caught a bass. Surface temp. Never caught a limit in those temps. 2000 518dvx 200 efi Mercury

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886072 02/13/21 07:42 PM
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cg203 Outdoorsman C Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 162 Weatherford, Tx	Ha oops. Misread that. 43 yesterday at Arlington

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886143 02/13/21 08:52 PM
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BWG Angler Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 376 Childress, TX	39 degrees. 4.86 largemouth out of Alan Henry S l o w crankbait

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886211 02/13/21 09:49 PM
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Cmack Extreme Angler C Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,547 Onalaska,Tx	Shortly after the Siberian Express late December 1983, I caught several large spotted bass in 4' water an Sam Rayburn. Water temp was 38 degrees. Caught them on a jerk bait fished super slow.

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886277 02/13/21 10:41 PM
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 36,930 Grand Prairie, Tx Allison1 TFF Guru
Allison1 TFF Guru Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 36,930 Grand Prairie, Tx	It does not warm up much as you go down deeper. Remember warm water rises so if it was much warmer it would be mixing more and keeping the upper warmer. I have caught a large number of fish on Bull Shoals in February. The cove were we put in was frozen over but the ice was real thin. That was back when a temp gauge was "special" and I am guessing the lake water was 40 or less. Fished a hair jig. Black, black/purple and black/red in 3/16 to 1/4 with a little piece of pork on the end. One club tourney on Bowie in January I caught a limit on a jig at the entrance of a small creek. There was only one other fish caught in the club that day and another club weighing in had done no better. I can't even remember the water temp but it had to be in the mid to lower 40's.

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Allison1] #13886325 02/13/21 11:25 PM
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senko9S TFF Guru Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 26,650 Bedford, TX	Originally Posted by Allison1 It does not warm up much as you go down deeper. Remember warm water rises so if it was much warmer it would be mixing more and keeping the upper warmer. I have caught a large number of fish on Bull Shoals in February. The cove were we put in was frozen over but the ice was real thin. That was back when a temp gauge was "special" and I am guessing the lake water was 40 or less. Fished a hair jig. Black, black/purple and black/red in 3/16 to 1/4 with a little piece of pork on the end. One club tourney on Bowie in January I caught a limit on a jig at the entrance of a small creek. There was only one other fish caught in the club that day and another club weighing in had done no better. I can't even remember the water temp but it had to be in the mid to lower 40's. You might be surprised

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886329 02/13/21 11:27 PM
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banker-always fishing Pumpkin Head Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 76,064 Universal City Tx.	Upper thirties! 38-39. IGFA World Record Rio Grande Cichlid. Lake Dunlap. John 3:16 Sinner's Prayer. God forgive me a sinner. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior !

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886349 02/13/21 11:42 PM
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fivebites TFF Team Angler Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,603 Austin	May not have been the coldest water, but it WAS the nastiest weather! Attached Files 2019 Chevy Tahoe 2018 Basscat Eyra 250 Proxs PB Wife of 32 years! PB Largemouth 9.56 Ray Roberts

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886516 02/14/21 02:07 AM
Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 7,425 Scurry, Tx - S/E of Dallas TBassYates TFF Celebrity
TBassYates TFF Celebrity Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 7,425 Scurry, Tx - S/E of Dallas	Fished a benefit tournament on Welsh many years ago and it was 19 degrees first thing that morning. Caught a fish that day on a Buzzbait.

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: TBassYates] #13886591 02/14/21 03:15 AM
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Flippin-Out TFF Team Angler F Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 4,730 Magnolia, TX	Originally Posted by TBassYates Fished a benefit tournament on Welsh many years ago and it was 19 degrees first thing that morning. Caught a fish that day on a Buzzbait. He asked about coldest WATER, not air temperature.....

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886751 02/14/21 12:19 PM
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lconn4 TFF Guru L Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 22,690 Cherokee County	I'll let you know this afternoon. A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with another fisherman's ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated. Zane Grey, Tales of Fishes, 1919 https://vimeo.com/73372194 https://vimeo.com/72859045

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13886922 02/14/21 02:59 PM
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Chris G Extreme Angler C Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 2,991 Frisco, TX	39 degree water in the back of Smith Creek on Monticello. It was the first winter after they had turned off the plant. only caught 2 fish that morning, a 4# Monti football and a 8+Monti stud. Both on a tube on timber.

Re: What's the coldest water you've ever caught a bass in TEXAS?? [Re: Ken A.] #13887218 02/14/21 06:17 PM
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