Thread: Is this unusual?

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If I am looking at this correctly, it shows near 70 degree water in the Navarre/Okaloosa area. It has shown this warm water there all winter.

Is this an unusual water temp pattern?

Can this contribute to an early run of spanish/kings....or does length of daylight also play into migration patterns?

I know its probably wishful thinking on my part, but dadgum, I need to spend a couple of days where I can hear the waves and smell the ocean, and would rather do it catching some spaniards at least.

Need tables of historic temps to know beyond a simple opinion.
This link will provide data since 2009 - near shore Panama City Beach

http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/buoy...2/2/PACF1.html

Another cool link to look at. Thanks, for pointing it out to me. Couldn't see a current water temp, but historically it was showing temps in the 50's and 60's in Jan/Feb.

I saw a post on Okaloosa's forum at Panhandle where they were catching cigar minnows...small but lots of 'em....last week. Guy who wrote it was as amazed by that as everyone was at their king runs in the middle of December.

I would venture that it is 'unusual' (as in out of the orndinary or norm)

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Maybe not that bad, but I can remember one VERY mild winter in the 1970s when the water temps around Gulf Shores/ OBch barely dropped below 60 degrees (and then only briefly).
I caught a blackfish (tripletail) from the GSPPier in February that year ???

You may have to 'dig for it', but there is a TON of historical buoy data available @ http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/florida_hist.shtml

The WU table reference was taken directly from this data :

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The WU table reference was taken directly from this data :
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Thank you Mr. David....knowing wunderground's politics and background, I don't like going there on the chance that if I do, somehow that yayhoo is making money off it.

I don't mind saying it.....I'm ready to hook into a king or two. :fishing: If they can be caught in December, I'm thinking maybe February ain't out of the question.

Last year the end of March was a surprize early show for the king mackerel.
Maybe that will repeat this year (the 'new normal'?)

They may be cold-blooded creatures of habit with these migration patterns hard wired into their genetics for millenia, but they are also inclined to take advantage of most any situation that affords them food and comfort.
After the oil rigs were placed off the mouth of the Miss River anglers were shocked to learn that huge king mackerel overwintered there and could be caught in February ???