water temps

[High Life]

what are the water temps of hh and dorena??i dont really wanna make that long of a trip,since gas is getting so ridiculously high and have the fishing be so-so.thanks

[nitrobass]

HH a week ago was around 64-65, Dorena 68-69. HH is fishing well, Dorena will get better when the fish finish spawning in another week or two

[Hagen]

Dorena, 5/15/04 H2O temps- 61 at the dam 65 everywhere else.
Hagen

[DaleDor]

In SMALL LAKES (not rivers or reserviors) in the SPRING, I've found a reasonably accurate way to predict average daily surface water temperatures. It's not perfect, but it's more accurate than asking what the temperature HAS been:
I simply take the AVERAGE of the daily forecasted high and low air temperature for the day I'm fishing. Try it!

Example: 70 degree forecasted high air temperature that day, with a low temperature forecast of 50 degrees....60 degrees, will be not far off of a surface water temperature estimate.

Real deep lakes don't seem to conform to this pattern as well, but shallow lakes do.