Last night I was rereading a passage in Striper Surf where Daignault said in his experience 50 degrees F is the temperature at which bass begin actively feeding (he mentions fishless days at 49F and when the water warmed to 50, click, the bass turned on).
But the BB talk about holdover stripers has me curious. Regardless of the temperature, if the fish are here, they gotta eat, right? Maybe not as much as in summer, but they don't lie dormant all winter. Is anyone taking a thermometer along with him when h
e fishes? Any thoughts on the correlation between water temps and level of winter feeding activity. At this time of year, do you suppose bass found in sun-warmed shallows are more active than those down in the holes? (warm-water discharges I tend to dismi
ss as contrived situations, less relevent to stripers' habits under natural conditions.)