Kawartha and haliburton water temps

[dada2727]

Anyone have any recent water temps, looking to go musky fishing and just trying to get a heads up. Thxs

[singingdog]

The lakes I have been on in Haliburton are about 47 F. Looks like a great weekend.

[Abberz]

Spent last weekend on Pigeon/Buckhorn - temps varied between 41-45 degrees. Slow weekend, we boated 3 fish, 41 inches being the biggest.

[dada2727]

strange, thought haliburton would be cooler temps.

[EC1]

Haliburton waters are a bit deeper, and take a longer time to cool. That would be my guess.

One day a few weeks back I visited a lake way further north and the bass were still jumping, but when I got back to the kawarthas, the water was way cold and never saw a fish at the surface.

 

Sorry, can't help you with temps though..I don't have a fishfinder. I can tell you that the water in the Kawarthas is really really cold...I think it might start forming ice by December.

Edited November 6, 2009 by EC1

[singingdog]

Yep, Kawartha lakes are huge surface area, with very shallow water. Smaller lakes with depths over 50' will hold heat much longer than huge lakes with 10-20' depths.

[dada2727]

cool thx, didn't know that but makes sense. I was just trying to figure out when the herring start spawning, I've heard around 42 degrees but not sure.

[GBW]

I can tell you 4 mile lake is 47.2 right now and man it's WINDY out there.

[muskeybugged]

Strange I had 45-47ºF on Pigeon today.