Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Jesse View Post
Dave, I think you have made a classic mistake of people who are no very familiar with the Lone Star State. I have never been to Borger, but have a friend who is a native, it is just east of Amarillo. The last time I remember being in Amarillo was the week before Christmas. The temperature was 72 deg. as I drove up from Lubbock, 36 hours later as I was leaving the wind chill was minus 40 degrees. It was snowing and the snowflake arriving parallel to the ground. It's the place people are talking about when they say "If you don't like the weather, wait a little bit it will change."
That's exactly what they say about Iowa's weather as well!
Given the latitude (but completely ignoring altitude), my thought was just that Texas's Winter, such as it is, is comparatively shorter and milder than ours, so the water temperatures wouldn't decline to the levels they do here..and so fish would tend to be more active there during the winter. They are active here as well, but you usually have to drill a hole through 10"-18" of ice to reach them.