Ok, I need the ODB opinion on water temps

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sweet spot between 62-75

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Mid 60's is about when the bream move up shallow to spawn. So, they are correct.

I start catching baskets full of bluegills and redears from shore right around the beginning of may. I keep all the ones big enough to eat, and put the smaller ones in my bait tank under the carport for bait.

Waters are still dern cold here in Oklahoma but once they start warming up it usually happens quickly. Late April to early May is usually that time. I usually use the morel mushroom emergence as a guide up here. Typically when the redbuds are blooming and the morels are growing, the crappie are spawning, the sunfish are starting to push shallow and the flatheads begin to gorge on everything they can find.