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Originally Posted by Flymph
Are these surface temps typical for this time of year, in your area?
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Hmmm, kinda tough to say; once spring snowmelt and runoff are done in June, it really depends on rain.
If you get 4-5 days of sunny, hot weather, then yep, the temps become typical. Rain always provides relief to temps and flows.
It especially hard on watersheds commonly north of highway 11 that get the muskeg-tannin stained water. The Freeman does typically look like a cup of strong Earl Grey tea when it's flowing clear, and the problem there is that the darker water / darker bottom absorbs more sunlight and retains heat. So pretty much the swath of water from the Cardinal River north to the Berland / Muskeg River can get fairly warm.
When it gets super hot, I try to fish glacially fed cutty streams.
-Smitty