[Shoeless]

Red Dog took the time to make up this chart. It is tailored for OBX, but you can use the temps as a guideline anywhere within the species range.

"Here is a very good chart that I made up and should answer your question on water temps per species. Some varriables my be different, but close enough. Glad to help. Take care and God bless.Tony"

FISHING HAS A NAME***RED DOG***ALL MY FISHING FAMILY***

SPECIES --- MONTH ---- LOW-- BEST -- HIGH

Black Drum MAY,OCT-NOV 52 72 88

Bluefish MAY-JUNE 50 68 74

Cobia MID JUNE 65 76 86

CrevelleJack JULY 70 80 86

Croaker AUGUST 45 61 72

False Albacore OCT-NOV 62 66 75

Flounder MAY,OCT 55 65 72

Gray Trout OCTOBER 48 58 74

King Mackeral SEPT-OCT 66 68 84

Pompano JUNE-JULY 67 74 83

Red Drum MID MARCH/DEC 52 71 90

Sheepshead MAR, AUG 58 66 74

Spadefish JULY-AUG 56 64 72

Spanish Mackeral JUL-AUG 64 76 87

Speckled Trout DEC/JAN 48 60 70

Spot SEPT-OCT 56 70 71

Striped Bass NOV/FEB 56 68 78

Sea Mullet APR,NOV 48 65 86

 

[Backlash87]

Thats a very good chart, should print one out and use it when i need, lol.

 

[moose22dog]

going thru some old post and came across this one. thought it was helpfull maybe bible stuff if it isn't already.:beer:

 

[RuddeDogg]

Good information there. As you can see it goes by location. For example, up here, the BEST temp for Striper at that time of the year is between 50-55 degs.

 

[Islander80]

going thru some old post and came across this one. thought it was helpfull maybe bible stuff if it isn't already.:beer:

You had some time on your hands today. You found a couple of old threads. Thanks for digging this one up, good info.

 

[moose22dog]

You had some time on your hands today. You found a couple of old threads. Thanks for digging this one up, good info.

lol just alittle bit. laid off,cold,and no feshing starting to go crazy..lol. guess i'll just keep self medicating...:beer:

 

[Fishwander]

moose22dog
laid off,cold,and no feshing starting to go crazy..lol. guess i'll just keep self medicating...

Thanks for the posting. Yeah , there is a lot of good information in the archives,... but did you really have to go back 7 years to pull this pearl of wisdom ? Good digging !!

RuddeDogg
Good information there. As you can see it goes by location. For example, up here(NJ/NY/Mass), the BEST temp for Striper at that time of the year is between 50-55 degs.

Yup , there seems to be slight variation according to geographic location. Might be that the OBX striper strain is reared primarily in Pimlico/Chesapeak area , while the NJ/NY/Mass strain is reared primarily in the Hudson , with slightly cooler water temps.

Fishwander

 

[moose22dog]

ya i started from the last page and started working down...lol. and think it was on page 420 ..lol. that is a big diff in temp, you would think it would be a lot closer than that..good stuff.:beer: