Sportsman
Old Mossy Horns
darenative nailed it. Darenative touched on it, but I'll add that you (or at least I do) want to find shallow water (2-4') over dark mud bottom adjacent to deeper (6-10') water. That dark mud bottom will warm up faster than a sandy bottom. Yesterday we started fishing in an inland creek, up in the creek but closer to the mouth than to the back. We caught a few trout but more stripers. Water temp was 44.5*-45*. We moved about a mile up into the creek, and found 46.3* water. We stayed in one 75 yard stretch for 2 hours and caught them steady.