10-30-2010, 07:08 AM
I have fished the berry in my float tube in the spring bumping into ice chunks and as late as Dec. 12. The fins do get cold but everything else is OK if you dress right. On that Dec. 12 trip I got 9 fish with one at 24". We made it a point to leave before the sun went down aand it was starting to gt really cold really fast. They hit buggers. We were at Renegade fishing the Indian Creek Arm and there was no floating ice that time of year and only a bit of ice where the creek came in. I was wearing long underwear, sweat pants and 3mm neoprene waders with neoprene booties. Daytime temps were high enough the guides weren't freezing until the sun got lower.
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