Prefered Temperature Chart

Species

Lower       Optimn

Avoidance  

Upper

Avoidance                 Specie*

Lower        Optimn

Avoidance   

Upper Avoidance                  Species

Lower        Optimn

Avoidance   

Upper Avoidance                   Species

Lower         Optimn

Avoidance    

Upper Avoidance

freshwater gamefish

Rainbow Trout

44°    61°

75°

Fluke or Summer

 

 

Fathead Minnow

77°    84°

90°   .

American Shad

66°

86°

Redhorse Suckers

72°

 

Flounder

56°    66°

72°

Fourhorn Sculpin

39°

 

Atlantic Salmon

62°

 

„ Rock Bass

70°

 

Haddock .

36°    47°

52°

Gizzard Shad

69°

 

Atlantic Strugeon

56°    66°

70°

Round Whitefish

6JW

 

Horn Shark

75°

 

Golden Shiner

70°

 

Black Grapple

60°    70°

75°

Sauger

55°    67°

74°

Jack Crevail

70°

 

Goldfish

77°

 

Bloater

43°

 

Shortnose Gar

81°

 

Kelp Bass

62°    65°

72°

Guppy

84°

 

Bluegill

58°    69°

75°

Smallmouth Bass

60° 65°-68

o  730

King Mackerel

70°

 

Lake Chub

48°-52°

Brook Trout

44°    58°

70°

Sockeye Salmon

55°

 

Opaleye

79°

86°

Longjaw Mudsucker 48°    72°

Brown Bullhead

74°

 

Spotted Bass

71°     75°

80°

Permit

6£     72°

92°

Moapa Dace

85°

Brown Trout

44° 56°-65° 75°

.  Steelhead Trout

38° 48°-52°

Pollack

50°

60°

Mosquitofish

81°

85°

Buffalo Species

81°

 

Sunfishes

50°    58°

68°

Pompano

77'

 

Mottled Sculpin

48°-52

0

Burbot

52°

 

Tench

 

79°

Red Drum

52°    71?

90°

Mozambique Mouthbrooder 83°

92°' ;

Carp

75°    84°

88°

Walleye,

50°    67°

76°

Red Snapper

50°    57 *

62°

Nine-spine Stickleback     48°-52°

Chain Pickerel

60°    66°

74°

White Bass

62°    70°

78°

Saltfish

70°    79'

82°

Quillback

72°

 

Channel Catfish

55° 82-89°

 

White Crappie

61°

 

Sand Seatrout

90°    95'

104°

Rainbow Smelt

43°    50°

57°

Chinook Salmon

44°    54°

60°

White Perch-

75°

 

Sea Catfish "

 

99°

River Capsucker

79°

94°

Chun Salmon

57°

 

White Sucker

72°

 

Skipjack Tuna

65°    73?

82°

Rosyface Shiner

70°    80°

88°

Cisco

52°-55°

 

Yellow Bass

81°

 

Snook

60° 70°-75° 90°

Slimy Sculpin

39°

43°

Coho Salmon

44°    54°

60°

Yellow Bullhead

83°

 

Spotted Seatrout

48°    72°

81°

Spotfin Shiner

79°    85°

95°

FlatheadFish

81°

90°

Yellow Perch

58°    68°

74°

Striped Bass

54°    60°

77°

Spottail Shiner

54°

 

Fresh water Drum

74°

 

 

 

 

Striped Marlin

61°    70°

80°

Stonecat

59°

 

Grass Pickeril Grayling

78°

64°

saltwater gamefish

Swordfish Tarpon

50°    58° 74°    76°

68° 100°

Stoneroller Trout Perch

75°    84° 50°

91°

Green Sunfish

73°    87°

91°

Albacore

59°    64°

 

Tautog

60°    70°

76°

White River Killfish

85°

 

Goldeye

72°

83°

Aberjack

60°    65°

72°

Weakfish

55°-65°

78°

 

 

 

Kamloops Trout Kokanfe

46° 47°-54° 52°-55°

 

Atlantic Bonito Atlantic Cod

60°    64° 31« 44°-49°

80° 59°

White Marlin White Seabass

65° 79°-80° 58°    68°

74°

saltwater baitfish

Lake Trout

42° 50°-59°

 

Atlantic Croaker

 

100°

Winter Founder

35° 48°-52°

64°

Atlantic Silverside

 

90°  T

Lake Whitefish

43°    51°

 

Atlantic Mackerel

46°

 

Yellowfin Tuna

64°    72°

80°

Atlantic Threadfin

 

92°

Landlocked Atlantic Salmon

Barracuda

60°    65°

82°

Yellowtail

60°    65°

70°

Bay Anchovy

82°

92°

Largemouth Bass

50°-58° 50° 65°-75°

85°

Bigeye Tuna Blackfin Tuna

62°    64° 70°    74°

68° 82°

freshwater baitfish

California Grunion Gulf Grunion

68°    77° 68°    89°

93° 98°

Longnose Gar

92°

 

Black Marlin

68° 75°-79°

87°

Alewife

48°    54°

72°

Gulf Menhaden

 

86°

Mooneye

72°

 

Bluefln Tuna

50°    68°

78°

Bitterling

77°

 

Pacific Silversides

72°    77°

82°

Muskellunge

55°    63°

72°

Bluefish

50°    68°

84°

Bluehead Chub

50°    59°

63°

Rough Silverside

 

91°    -.

Northern Pike

56°    63°

74°

Blue Marlin

70°    78°

88°

Bluntnose Minnow

70°    84°

88°

Skip Jack Herring

72°

84°

Pink Salmon

49°

 

Bonefish

60°    75°

93°

Desert Pupfish

71°

78°

Spot

 

99°

PumkinSeed

82°

 

Dolphinfish

70°    75°82°

Emerald Shiner

61°

 

Tidewater Silverside

 

93°

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