Water turn over in Table Rock

[Will S.]

I have NO experience with the water turn over on Table Rock. I know what it is, but don't know how it affects fishing. Will the fish follow the water temp or just shut down completely for a while ? Any discussion helpful. Thanks.

[merc1997 Bo]

50 minutes ago, Bill Schmahl said:

I have NO experience with the water turn over on Table Rock. I know what it is, but don't know how it affects fishing. Will the fish follow the water temp or just shut down completely for a while ? Any discussion helpful. Thanks.

you will see small bubbles coming up all over.  you can also see it on your electronics.  it makes diagonal  marks.  what is causing those is the air bubbles are being detected.  most often the O2 is dminished in these areas and any bass there are not often active.  what gets fall turnover started is the cooling of the surface temps.  it will begin to push the thermocline deeper until there is enough mass on top of it to push through and then the water flipflops and the gasses in the bottom layer come up through the water column.   the water normally has a funny discolor to it and you will also bits of gunk floating on the surface.

you have to fish above or below turnover to be very successful catching bass.  once it is complete the food and bass can be anywhere in the water column.

bo

[dblades]

I don't think it usually  happens lake wide at once so you can find area not affected. 

[Will S.]

2 minutes ago, merc1997 said:

you will see small bubbles coming up all over.  you can also see it on your electronics.  it makes diagonal  marks.  what is causing those is the air bubbles are being detected.  most often the O2 is dminished in these areas and any bass there are not often active.  what gets fall turnover started is the cooling of the surface temps.  it will begin to push the thermocline deeper until there is enough mass on top of it to push through and then the water flipflops and the gasses in the bottom layer come up through the water column.   the water normally has a funny discolor to it and you will also bits of gunk floating on the surface.

you have to fish above or below turnover to be very successful catching bass.  once it is complete the food and bass can be anywhere in the water column.

bo

Thanks Bo. I think it is starting... Seen bubbles in several places yesterday. I read that Beaver Lake has started as well.

[Royal Blue]

21 minutes ago, Bill Schmahl said:

Thanks Bo. I think it is starting... Seen bubbles in several places yesterday. I read that Beaver Lake has started as well.

I think you may be right.  I saw several places where there were lots of bubbles yesterday.  Fishing was pretty tough yesterday too.  We caught a few, but the 3 keepers were the kind that you almost had to step on to make them keepers.

 

[Will S.]

Yesterday we were from H.I. marina to near Eagle Rock. Fishing was slow.. Only a couple of short Spots. Too windy for me..

[176champion]

I put in at Big M yesterday at about 1 pm and only saw i wake boat and 1 cruiser on the water and that was around 2:30 pm...Big M parking lot was empty, water temp was around 77 degrees water visibility was maybe 2 foot deep and yes it was windy but as they say the wind is your friend.

[MoCarp]

usually going up stream on feeder creeks can get you in areas that the fish will bite during a turn over situation..I know it screws up the fishing for a while....didn't think it would happen this early...but this isn't a normal year ether

[merc1997 Bo]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

usually going up stream on feeder creeks can get you in areas that the fish will bite during a turn over situation..I know it screws up the fishing for a while....didn't think it would happen this early...but this isn't a normal year ether

the reason that it is happening earlier in areas is because the thermocline never did get very deep.  but, we are returning back to summer weather once again, and that will change things or put some changes into limbo for a while.

bo

[Royal Blue]

We put in at Mill Creek and fished a bunch of our usual spots.  It's funny that you had it too windy.  We had glass for 2/3 of the morning and I'd been really hoping for some wind.