Lower water temps: Streamers

[RedHookStreamer]

At what water temperature, in your experiences, do you "turn off" fall streamer fishing? I am going to finally get some more time in maybe as early as Sunday and I don't feel like I had my share of streamer fishing this fall. Mother nature and other commitments have made it brutual this year to take advantage of what is usually a cool time of year.

Most rivers in the Catskills system are now in the high 40s and there's up to a foot of snow on the horizon for tonight. CFS is 500 plus or minus. Is this a temperature range that you would switch back to indicator nymphing because the trout have slowed it down a little or is there a range to go (say, low 40s) before streamer fishing should be shelved? I can't make up my mind about this; in one respect I am thinking a slower presentation such as indy nymphing is the way to go, next thing you know I'm on YouTube watching guys pull monsters out on articulated streamers with snow on the banks in Utah and Colorado.

RHS

[frankm]

I took a few on streamers last week. This week the temps are going back up to 55, the water temps were in the low 50s so I would keep chucking them for as long as you can. Looks like it may be a long cold winter

[IdahoFly]

For me atleast, streamer fishing never turns off after fall, even with giant bergs floating in the water I take trophy fish on big streamers, vary your retrieve but don't stop fishing the big junk.