warm winters in the past

[chaz]

good question i was just thinking about the herring,temps and daylight could be relevant also think of the biolodgical clocks ,how do the birds know when to come back etc.

[piemma]

A post from the Mid-West where it was 62 degrees yesterday.

Everything I have read says the Bass are phototropic. This means they react directly to the amount of daylight. As the days get longer, their instincts tell them to migrate. Same in the Fall, in reverse naturally.

Historically I can remember 97-98 was avery warm winter. My log books show the first schoolies at the West Wall in Narr on March 19. Maybe a week or 2 early but not significant. The next really warm winter was 2006. I had my first keeper at Deep Hole on April 25. Again nothing out of the ordinary about that either.

We may see the Bass a week or two early but I wouldn't expect them before St Pats Day.

[JohnR]

My biggest concern is with the lack of snow and resulting snow melt, how will that effect the Chessie spawn. They seem to like the Goldilocks snow melt, not too much or too little, but just right.