turn over

[jim m]

lake turned yet in shell knob area of the lake, haven't been there in a few weeks. was out of pb2 on loz saturday and it had turned most of the fish we marked were 25-45 ft deep and bites were rare at best.  what is water temp my jerk baits are chomping at the bit

[Old plug]

Every year we go thru this turn over conversation. The tiun  over temperature is 39 degres but is complicated by a whole lot of different things. the whole lake does not turn over at the same time. 

 

[fishinwrench]

They can't help it, OP.

They were tought about "turn over" by fisheries biologists, and they just accept it as fact, they think they have to. Independent thought is frowned upon.

[laker67]

They just can't help trying to rush nature

[mojorig]

It appears you still have a little bit to go on TR before the lake has completely turned over. As OP mentioned, the lake turnover begins in the creek arms and slowly moves down the lake. I have attached DO and Temp profiles from the TR Dam sent to us by the USACE.  Once the temperature is uniform from surface to bottom, then the turn over will be complete.

 

Here is a time series showing the changes in water temperature over time in 1995 at the Norfork Lake Dam. Sorry, I don't have one of these for TR. I got this from a presentation by a limnologist to the Twin Lakes Walleye Club and Norfork Lake Striper Club about Bull Shoals Lake and Norfork Lake. For that year,  you can see that the turnover was almost completed at the dam on Nov 7th.

[MoCarp]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

They can't help it, OP.

They were tought about "turn over" by fisheries biologists, and they just accept it as fact, they think they have to. Independent thought is frowned upon.

Taught*   .....

1 hour ago, mojorig said:

 Once the temperature is uniform from surface to bottom, then the turn over will be complete.

and there you have it

[fishinwrench]

11 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

Taught*   ....

I actually argued with auto correct about that.   It was right all along.  Imagine that.

That being owned up to, I gotta say that if YOU become a Grammer Nazi then I'm outta here. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

That being owned up to, I gotta say that if YOU become a Grammer Nazi then I'm outta here. 

Don't your pretty little head, I think he likes you after your heart warming review of the OK carp fly fishers.

[fishinwrench]

1 minute ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Don't your pretty little head, I think he likes you after your heart warming review of the OK carp fly fishers.

Hey, I'd hang out with those 2 old boys.  I'd even give the fat boy a better rod.  That 30.00 POS he was packing around made me feel sorry for him.   

[fishinwrench]

Speaking of cool ol' boys.....check this ol'badass out.