Backwater Eddy
08-19-2004, 09:10 PM
A Golden Pre-Fall Prognostication.
Red River of the North Fishing Report 08/20/04
Ho-Ya...Get'n Kinda Cool out Eh...but the good deal is... the Fish’n is heating up just as fast as it is cooling off here on the Red River of the North.
Ya know, I dream about falls like this one is shaping up to be. If the trend continues...Ooo-Wee...this could be a fall to remember. Early cooling temps and a L-O-N-G cool Fall weather pattern to stimulate them hungry fish...Yup ya got's-ta love it... these conditions often spells out the fishing years to remember.
Yup..it is kinda early to say that an extended cooling is indeed the deal, yet looking back at the season in a nutshell, I would bet a cool fall will be the deal in 2004.
Why do I drool when I see this early cooling pattern setting up? Well fish on average put on their greatest weight gains in the fall. They do this by feeding big, feeding well, and feeding often. If they be a feeding, then they be a better then average target to shoot for. A get-um whiles the Get'n is Good type thing.
If the forage base is good, and it is this season, then they will quickly target it and chow down heavy. This continues tell the ice sets in for the winter, then after a brief slowing of action at early ice they tend to go right back on the chow wagon. Fall and early winter often produces the best trophy fishing of the season for species such as walleye, catfish and muskie. So in my book what is not to like about an early fall.
Sure...some folks are whining about the early cool temps...Baa....not me. I say Bring-r-on...I got wool socks, Gore Tex, and good boots...I'll be just fine.
Some falls are more Golden then others, this may be a Golden Season in the making. I have a hunch I will be smiling wide at the rivers side, be it by day or be it by night this 2004 fall season.
Good Fish'n and keep dem feet dry.
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson
Backwater Guiding
"ED on the RED"
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Red River of the North Fishing Report 08/20/04
Ho-Ya...Get'n Kinda Cool out Eh...but the good deal is... the Fish’n is heating up just as fast as it is cooling off here on the Red River of the North.
Ya know, I dream about falls like this one is shaping up to be. If the trend continues...Ooo-Wee...this could be a fall to remember. Early cooling temps and a L-O-N-G cool Fall weather pattern to stimulate them hungry fish...Yup ya got's-ta love it... these conditions often spells out the fishing years to remember.
Yup..it is kinda early to say that an extended cooling is indeed the deal, yet looking back at the season in a nutshell, I would bet a cool fall will be the deal in 2004.
Why do I drool when I see this early cooling pattern setting up? Well fish on average put on their greatest weight gains in the fall. They do this by feeding big, feeding well, and feeding often. If they be a feeding, then they be a better then average target to shoot for. A get-um whiles the Get'n is Good type thing.
If the forage base is good, and it is this season, then they will quickly target it and chow down heavy. This continues tell the ice sets in for the winter, then after a brief slowing of action at early ice they tend to go right back on the chow wagon. Fall and early winter often produces the best trophy fishing of the season for species such as walleye, catfish and muskie. So in my book what is not to like about an early fall.
Sure...some folks are whining about the early cool temps...Baa....not me. I say Bring-r-on...I got wool socks, Gore Tex, and good boots...I'll be just fine.
Some falls are more Golden then others, this may be a Golden Season in the making. I have a hunch I will be smiling wide at the rivers side, be it by day or be it by night this 2004 fall season.
Good Fish'n and keep dem feet dry.
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson
Backwater Guiding
"ED on the RED"
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