Is it important to you? Will it change what you do? Keep you from going?
Just curious…
Yes yes no
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yes, yes, yes lol
right now I’m basically on burn fuel mode… my lst 2 trips have just been for fun and to run the boat not fish…
i tend to look at temps or holding temps to determine what is going to be available…
It’s as or more important than the tides. It’s important because it effects where fish are likely to be found, which fish will bite and what methods are used to catch them. Won’t stop me from going but I know I’ve gotta change my approach when the temp changes.
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Water, especially salt water is slow to change temperature because of it’s density. Hence, your transducer temperature may read 50, but 7 feet down where the fish are, it may be 63. Keep in mind the temperature reading from your transducer is the surface temperature. I’ve seen it change 10 degrees over the course of a cold morning / hot afternoon. The entire water column isn’t changing over the course of one day.
So, if your transducer temp gives you a surface water temp, and you’re fishing in 7 feet of water, what’s the point of knowing the surface temperature?
I think for inshore, knowing the surface water temp is of no use.
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Originally posted by Jerk BaitWater, especially salt water is slow to change temperature because of it’s density. Hence, your transducer temperature may read 50, but 7 feet down where the fish are, it may be 63. Keep in mind the temperature reading from your transducer is the surface temperature. I’ve seen it change 10 degrees over the course of a cold morning / hot afternoon. The entire water column isn’t changing over the course of one day.
So, if your transducer temp gives you a surface water temp, and you’re fishing in 7 feet of water, what’s the point of knowing the surface temperature?
I think for inshore, knowing the surface water temp is of no use.
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I’ll agree to an extent, but with a fast running tide the water temp stays pretty close in 1-10’ feet of water. I may agree a bit more when you get down 25-30’ (hense deep water holes and shrimp piled up in them). 
Never put a temp guage down, I’m just assuming. maybe just the fact that current in the holes is less again I’m assuming. Maybe a combo.
Have you been swimming inshore and dove down deep? Temp to me feels just the same down to 12’ Change to a lake with no current and I’ll agree with your assesment of a large difference from surface temp down to 7’
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Originally posted by PeaPodif you already got the answers. …
Then move on?
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Originally posted by OptikerYes yes no
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I’m with Fred in saltwater with the mixing of the tides every day! But in fresh water I think the turn over pretty well keeps the temps. about the same unless you are in a place with a current like the top end of a lake with the river running in after a big rain! I fished Clark Hill last Fri. and the water temp was 55.7 and about 10 deg above last year and the fish were on a differnt pattern!
So what happened before someone put a temperature sensor on a transducer to tell you what the surface temp of the water is, when you’re fishing 10 foot deep?
Think about it - why do fish go deep when it’s cold? Why do the shrimp go deep and burrow up when it’s cold? It’s because deep water is warmer in the winter!
The surface to bottom temperature does have a difference in water deeper than 5ft and is greater when the depths are deeper and when swift changes in weather occur. The relationship changes in relation to time of year/season. In fall and early winter the surface temp will be between 3-9 degrees of bottom usually unless extreme depths or weather changes, the end of winter to early spring I have seen differences of up to 12 degrees. Using the surface temps in relationship to fishing is less accurate/effective in the end of winter early spring because the deep water is slower to warm than it is to cool, IDK why nor do I have evidence it is just what I have noticed through experience. I used to use a pool thermometer on a rope and my surface temps would be from 4-5ft in the water column, and bottom temps would come from up to 60ft. Salt water has a little difference from fresh water from the tides, current and salinity, and freshwater can be affected by where the water comes from and lack of movement. I used to go swimming in crystal lakes before it was a neighborhood and one winter when the surface temp was in the low 50’s and when you jumped in your feet would bust through a thin layer of ice on the mud on the bottom, and that was less than 12ft so there can be drastic differences. Underwater currents can also produce different temps than surrounding waters. Some fish also go deep when its hot, so its not just cold. Cold water temps won’t keep me from going but a awful day out will, wind, rain, cold. I have been at the tail-race canal fishing on a cold rainy windy day (bad forecast)and my fingers got so cold they hurt, felt brittle and I couldn’t reel efficiently, since then I quit going on the bad days, even though that day the Heron and Shad where biting great and only one other boat was there.
I make sure I note water temperature on everyone of my trips …
What does that intel tell you?