LINCOLN, Neb. - Although the season may be changing, your time on the water as an angler doesn’t have to.

With summer coming to an end, Daryl Bauer of Game and Park Fisheries recommends keeping the poles out for a few more months.

“The water starts to cool and the fish are biting,” Bauer said. “I love to hunt too, but sometimes I do both.”

Bauer says fall fishing can be particularly successful as fish pursue prey ahead of the winter. But with shorter days, and eventually cooler temperatures, that prey becomes more limited increasing the anglers chances for hooking into one.

However, the temperatures may not be dropping for quite awhile. Many long range forecasts show above average conditions for much of the next few weeks.

“It still may be like your summer fishing patterns, so the fish behavior may be more like what they’re doing in the summer,” Bauer said. “But they still may be feeding a little longer a little more than they were back in July or August because they’re looking a little harder to find food.”

As many Nebraska anglers know, Game and Parks does annual trout stocking at lakes across the state in the fall and spring - because the water is cooler at those times of the year. Despite warm weather seeming to continue, Bauer says it’s all on as scheduled for this fall.


“Most are in October so we should be cool enough by then,” Bauer said. “But there have been years where we’ve backed some stocking off a few days because we’ve had unseasonably warm weather.”