Water temperature hit 65, first king soon!?!?

Yep, I'm afraid my early April pick is looking better and better---if it weren't for the custom rod, I'd hope it was way late.

ironman u picked a good date! thats what i think its gonna be

Okaloosa got a report of a few spanish yesterday hopefully something good is coming our way before the temps go back down again….

i caught some spanish on march 2nd this year just cause there catching a few keychains doesent mean anything still i hope your right.. IMHO i dont think well catch a king till april....smh

I just hope it is a better catching year, then the last one....no matter when it starts, just hope once it does.... it continues , so I can read great catching reports and dreaming I was there http://www.gulfcoastfishingconnectio...dreamBeach.gif http://www.gulfcoastfishingconnectio...sc/fishing.gif catching that http://www.gulfcoastfishingconnectio...wasTHISbig.gif and please when they start http://www.gulfcoastfishingconnectio...otographer.gif Please share

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Originally Posted by Pier#r

Such is problematic when trying to assign an arbitrary dynamic number (such as water temperature).
Just because the water temperature spiked up to 65 degrees at 42012 doesn't mean a thing really.
In fact it's already dropped back down several degrees...
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/plot_met.ph...time_label=CDT


And after this end-of-the-week-warm-up (to about average for the date) the (air) temps will again fall below average next week :-(
The climatic trend for the whole winter has been below average temperatures.
As long as that trend continues fish migrations and such will be 'behind' schedule.

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Another way to consider this is 'with the math'.
When looking at the buoy data check out the "previous 24 hour observations table"
and calculate the average temperature either by median or mean...
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If I had to assign ONE number to describe the water temp I would simply tell folks "it's about 63 degrees." ;-)

Hope this helps!

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Originally Posted by ironman172

yes sir a cool down is on the way again, at least up here, below average Sunday on

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yes its going to cool down again here but then its going to be in the upper 60's again next thursday should be a good weekend for sheepies and pompano this weekend tho

Not supposed to cool down in lower 60's until Monday

I read our local watering hole is open water now.... so time to dig out the boat and freeze my buns off, even if it's nice and warm out that 35-36 degree water sure makes you cold when it's all around you. add a little wind....but that is when the big'uns bite....ice-out

Whadup? (or rather down ;-)

Water temp has slipped back a couple of degrees (86 avg to 84 avg)...
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/plot_met.ph...time_label=CDT