I live in Missouri and I want to know when I can fish until before I start getting into the winter bite. 

Every year is different, but here in KY the fall bite usually holds up through mid to late November for LM.

I would only suggest to just keep plugging away and study you're electronics this will help you know better, simply put..

When the lake freezes.

When the lake freezes.

Ya beat me to it...LMAO

When there's ice on the water, you have winter. If you don't have an ice over in your area, you don't have a winter. you get a very long late fall and early spring.  Be happy you get to fish year round. You southerners crying that 50 degrees is cold makes me sick! You don't know cold until you've broke an ice scraper on your windshield in -20 below temps before the windchill.

Shoot 50 degrees is cold for us! Just like 85° is hot for y'all!

Well 50° ain't super cold down here during the winter... When its in the 30s that's when I call it cold! Haha

When there's ice on the water, you have winter. If you don't have an ice over in your area, you don't have a winter. you get a very long late fall and early spring.  Be happy you get to fish year round. You southerners crying that 50 degrees is cold makes me sick! You don't know cold until you've broke an ice scraper on your windshield in -20 below temps before the windchill.

 

I love the Iowa climate.  I could deal with one less month of winter, but I need those seasonal changes.  You can fish year round in Iowa too.  I hear it has something to do with drilling a hole in the ice.  I dunno.

I will never understand the draw to ice fishing. People walking out below lock and dams over 40 feet of water. You go through..there's no coming back from that. The hole hoping panfish junkies just have a screw loose. I'm understandably the minority when it comes to ice fishing(especially in my area where ice fishing is ridiculously popular and it gets even worse then further north you go) but I just cannot understand the draw to it. Also, being cold sucks.

When there's ice on the water, you have winter. If you don't have an ice over in your area, you don't have a winter. you get a very long late fall and early spring.  Be happy you get to fish year round. You southerners crying that 50 degrees is cold makes me sick! You don't know cold until you've broke an ice scraper on your windshield in -20 below temps before the windchill.

Anything 32 or below is cold...

What fall bite? In Indiana it goes from Summer to Winter

When the water temp- at the depth where the fish are- drops below 55F.

 

P.S. Look up Tom Young's cosmic clock.

Up here there is summer, winter, and a couple weeks of transition. Heck, is SNOWING in Alberta, and weather reports say it will be 5 degrees Celcius on Sunday. What is wrong with the world???

Anything 32 or below is cold...

Do you bring your purse fishing? Nancy.

When the lake freezes.

 

 

Ya beat me to it...LMAO

 

 

Yup ~ LMAO . . . .

 

I was going to say once my casts start to bounce . . . . .

 

 

A-Jay

Here in Colorado the winter bite starts at sub 50 degrees, usually in early november.

Here in S.Cal, the Fall bite turns into the winter bite when they start stocking those yummy rainbow trout the bass look so forward to eating.....and a few people too.

December 21

Up here there is summer, winter, and a couple weeks of transition. Heck, is SNOWING in Alberta, and weather reports say it will be 5 degrees Celcius on Sunday. What is wrong with the world???

 

I got sick because I left my window open. I knew it was going to be cooler at night, didn't expect it to be freezing.

I was fishing in November in snow flurries throwing a YUM money minnow. I never knew bass hit so late in the season. It was an awesome trip. Now I'm not sure to hunt deer or go fishing.

If there is no ice stay going, use the dying minnow presentation with a swim bait.

I find that the "fall bite " changes to the "winter bite" when the water temp hits about 52°f.

i think now temps been in low 40's for about a week with a few day highs of 50 and rain. water is cold and muddyhere