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Originally Posted by XxthejuicexX
Looks like the only chance I will get to fish is Saturday afternoon. Do you think that either Normandy or The Caney will be less affected by the weather than JPP and the crappie? I don't know how trout in a tailwater environment handle the temp change.
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I can tell you for a fact that crappie are much more apt to turn off than tailwater trout. I will be in North Carolina or I would be fishing for crappie or trout this weekend myself. I know at times after the crappie have moved shallow at Nickajack and we have one of these small cold fronts come in those crappie would move out from the rip rap and go deeper for a day or two and get lock jaw...that is what happens about 90 percent of the time. I would have to pass by Normandy coming home from Nickajack and would stop off there to catch some trout so I didn't feel I had a wasted trip. The last TWRA report I read which was done in 2012....I think....said that between November and June they stock the 6 miles of the Duck below Normandy with about 25,000 trout. That figures out to about 4000 trout per mile. That is why the catch rate can be high there. I am a firm believer that the pool I was casting into today had three to five hundred trout stacked in there. All I know is "If you don't go you won't know"......LOL. At least that is what Doug Markham says.
Regards