Quote Originally Posted by mkmsports41 View Post
Just remember fish have small brains. They concentrate on two things, eating, and making babies. They do not know what month it is. All they know is water temp. Water temp is the key.
Water temp is part of the key. Other factors include but are not limited to the length of day, moon phases, cold front passages, water level fluctuations and of course water clarity. As far as bugs go, what will determine populations more than anything is the conditions available to them when they are ready to reproduce. If a cold winter will keep the populations down then why does the coldest U.S. state have one of the worst summertime mosquito problems? http://alaskatrekker.com/mosquitos.htm