I don't really fish in the very cold winter anymore, but would draw some inferences - all fish move slower in colder water, so I would fish slower and deeper, and focus on upper creek holes out of the current. Fish cannot hold in current when they are needing to conserve calories and feeding only sparsely. I do think however, that we're about to start getting warmer and within the next week to two the water temps will get things moving a bit. Above I mentioned yellow perch because they are about to begin their runs, they will be pushing up into prime pickerel waters and they are eminently catchable. Like pickerel they are a beautiful fish to behold and unlike pickerel, they make superb eating (though scales are like iron). You could go out for pickerel but if you want to be assured of catching something, switch to smaller streamers and drop them into some outer creek bends (holes) and almost certainly get something. With a 9 foot flyrod you could hardly call it casting, just flip into the hole and let it sink to near bottom and give it a motion. Here's an old article from Angus Phillips on catching perch in exactly the spot I was referring to in Allens Fresh.
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:08 AM, tperkins <thomas.perkins1@gmail.com> wrote:
Tom, thank you as well. So much awesome information here!--
On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 9:02:29 AM UTC-5, Andrew Sarcinello wrote:Tom, thanks for the clarification, that makes sense to me.One thing about our Tuckahoe float, given the mid winter cold conditions, aquatic vegetation was non-existent. As Misha said, we focused on woody cover and eddies mostly. Not so much on the channel until the very end, so maybe that was a mistake. Have you caught many in winter, and if so do you think their habits change? I've heard some say they don't really change where they like to hold, but one of my best fishing friends, who has far more experience than I do, insists they will stack up in deep water during extreme cold.
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