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••rm mw':: Little things mean a lot when you're fishing . . . . Little things mean a lot, even in the game of fishing. For instance, water temperature has an important--often controlling--influence upon the activities of all fish. Fish, like frogs, snakes and turtles,-are cold-blooded and their bodiea are always the temperature of the surrounding water. This slows down their metabolism during the winter so that they can utilize only about a fourth as much food as they consume in summer. It's only natural that they are more active, and easier to catch, in warmer times. Most fish don't spawn unless the water temperature is within rather narrow limits. Trout can't survive in stfeams that get too warm. Bass and other sunfish eventually die when stocked in lakes that remain too cold,during the summer. Some fish will go without food rather than venture into water that is too hot or too cold. Others will shift position for a temperature change as slight as one-half of one degree. wile some fish have a wider temperature tolerance than others, each of them has a certain range within which it tries to stay. School­ ing fish suspend over deep water and stay at the leyel in which they are most comfortable. In this modern age, fishermen worldwide ire using a variety of electronic products like those produced by Lowrance Elec­ tronics, Inc., Tulsa, OK., to make themselves more knowl­ edgeable of fish habits, water temperatures fish prefer and in which they usually remain. For example, it's August and you are interested in fishing for both trout and bass in a local lake. A depth sounder (often called a flasher) or graph recorder can be used to search for fish. Even­ tually; schools are found at both 20 feet and 35 feet. Othtr products in play Now other products come into play. A Lowrance instru­ ment called the Surface Fish- n-Temp, easily installed in the dash or console of most fishing boats, with the flip of a switch shows that the water tempera­ ture on top is 76 degrees. The angler should keep this in mind as he seeks fish in other areas of the lake, knowing that schools are likely to be found elsewhere under similar surface readings. With another instrument called the Ffsh-n-Temp, which is small and compact and fits easily in most tackle boxes or a small storage area, the angler can measure the temperature at the two levels where the fish are schooled.He will likely find, for instance, that bass under this situation are at the 20 foot level in water of 72 degrees, and trout at 35 feet with the water tem­ perature 55. PAGES The hamNidd operate* off a small buttery and has a 100-foot marked cord that instantly shows the depth of a probe at the end of the cable.The probe allows instant tempera­ ture reading on the meter. In brief, it is a simple electronic depth meter To find The unit is ideal, too, for find­ ing the "thermocline"- of lakes in warmer weather. - Most lakes stratify into three distinct layers of water during summer. The top layer, called the epilimnion, consists of warm surface water. In the mid­ dle layer, the thermocline, the water temperature drops rapidly with increasing depth to the cold bottom layer, the hypolimnion. The thermocline is the layer of greatest interest to anglers because it frequently provides the water temperature moat fish prefer. Once the fish are found with the use of a locator, and the depths and temperatures corre­ lated, it's easy to get a lure or bait to the kind of fish desired, at the right depth. It's then that the skill of the angler will determine fishing success. For sure, some little things have greatly increased his chances. 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