Water temps

Spent a few hours on Cassidy yesterday.  Nothing happening.  Water temp has risen a degree or two and for most of the lake temp read 40 degrees.  I did notice a few more fish showing on the depth finder holding around 4-6 feet. 

All of which got me to wondering if there is any certain water temp up here where the fishing starts to pick up?  For example, I know on the Gulf Coast the magic temp was 70 degrees.  Fishing would be slow all winter but once the temp hit 70 it was a whole new ball game.

Despite no fish it sure was nice to paddle in the sunshine!

There's a bunch of variables for the "magic temp"- the biggest (I think) being what species are trying for? Trout begin to perk up when things get above 40F, but really put the feed bags on when it gets closer to 50F. At 70F, they get heat stressed and don't feed so much. For bass and panfish, you can raise those temps roughly 10 degrees for similar action.

In the spring, look for areas that will heat  sooner than most, i.e. north shore of a lake, shallow coves with good sunlight, etc.

Good Luck.

Hopefully those 50 degree temps are not too far away.  Hit a different lake yesterday, water temp still in the 40's but some good chironomid action going on.  Couldn't quite get dialed in on the chironomid feeders but managed one nice triploid on a black woolly bugger. 

Strato----which lake???

Spent a few hours on Cassidy yesterday...

There's a Cassidy is a few miles from Marysville. Here's the WashingtonLakes reports- http://www.washingtonlakes.com/ReportList.aspx?id=600

I saw some really good chironomid action on Cassidy last year but being new to this area didn't realize what I was seeing at the time.  Talk about frustrating!  For the life of me I couldn't see or figure out what they were taking.  Wasn't until I got my kayak out of the water and saw all the Chironomids stuck to the side that I realized they were taking Chironos just under the surface.  With the stained water of Cassidy it was difficult to see.

I was fishing Martha Friday.