The Big M 7/25/2013

[Quillback]

Great report and fish. Must have murked up some as on the white plate test last week, I could see the plate at 15 ft. easy at owl creek.

Clarity is correctly judged on the plate test. Drop a 6" white plate down and when it goes out of site, that is the clarity.

This is and has been for years the method that the lake Biologist use to measure light penetration and clarity.

Good Luck

I just look at rocks in he water and make a guess

[Bill Babler]

I just look at rocks in he water and make a guess

Probably just as good for what we do.

[powerdive]

Yeah, i was at Norfork last weekend and the Thermocline varied a depending on where we were in the lake some places it was at about 20 and others closer to 30. Didnt see any fish below it, most of the bass we saw were just above it a little bit. And the Walleye were in it. On Norfork it was a very distinct line that you could see and definitly feel. I did see a lot of little fry bass up shallow, so i guess to spawn went well.

Great info, that's impossible to get otherwise. Thank you!

[gitnby]

Great report and fish. Must have murked up some as on the white plate test last week, I could see the plate at 15 ft. easy at owl creek.

Clarity is correctly judged on the plate test. Drop a 6" white plate down and when it goes out of site, that is the clarity.

This is and has been for years the method that the lake Biologist use to measure light penetration and clarity.

Good Luck

This Spring, I was sight fishin some spawning beds and kept throwing that tube bait on top of the beds, but no bites?

Never even saw a fish come near em?

Turns out what I thought were spawning beds were all those white plates that Babler and the biologists were throwin in the Lake!