Fall turnover

[MagikSmallie]

Just had a few questions about the fall turnover:

is fishing better before, during, or after the turn?

can the spring turnover be related to the fall in terms of best fishing (before, during, after)?

How do you fish each stage of the turnover..before,during,after?


sorry for the basic questions I just haven't learned much about the turnover...fishing wise...I completely understand the how and why it happens but I haven't quite learned how to fish the it yet...thanks.

[Mean Morone]

I guess it might depend on what kind of fish you are after. I fish Lake Cumberland for stripers. I never like going before the turnover(until this year)because the stripers are constrained by the thermal refuge where the water temp is just right and the oxygen level is just right. They like that happy place. I don't troll or down rig so I have to wait until they are free to roam into shallow water where I have a shot at them. This happens after the turnover usually. I would say that on Lake Cumberland this happens around Thanksgiving give or take. Your options are better also. If you like to fish 100 ft deep nows your chance. If you like to catch them shallow, have at em.

[AndyG]

Just had a few questions about the fall turnover:

is fishing better before, during, or after the turn?

can the spring turnover be related to the fall in terms of best fishing (before, during, after)?

How do you fish each stage of the turnover..before,during,after?


sorry for the basic questions I just haven't learned much about the turnover...fishing wise...I completely understand the how and why it happens but I haven't quite learned how to fish the it yet...thanks.

Im learning more and more that fall fishing is pretty much terrible everywhere I fish except for an unexplainable good day here and there. I believe the fish suspend more and that makes it tougher. As for turnover, Ive never noticed anything but poor results. The effects of turnover on the bite arent suposed to last more than a day or two though from what Ive read... although we like to have an excuse for a bad day, and blaming turnover can go all through fall.

[Embrey]

Im learning more and more that fall fishing is pretty much terrible everywhere I fish except for an unexplainable good day here and there. I believe the fish suspend more and that makes it tougher. As for turnover, Ive never noticed anything but poor results. The effects of turnover on the bite arent suposed to last more than a day or two though from what Ive read... although we like to have an excuse for a bad day, and blaming turnover can go all through fall.

i dont see this at all

[AndyG]

i dont see this at all

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/b..._fall_turnover

[dpage70]

When the lake is turning over head for the pockets and creeks. Find water that is shallower than what the thermocline was. The water that is shallower than what the thermocline was can't turnover since, well, no thermocline. The oxygen levels will stay pretty consistent there and the fish that are there will keep on eating as normal. As far as spring turnover, well there is no such thing. The turnover is related to thermocline which sets up in the early summer and dissipates in the fall.

[AndyG]

When the lake is turning over head for the pockets and creeks. Find water that is shallower than what the thermocline was. The water that is shallower than what the thermocline was can't turnover since, well, no thermocline. The oxygen levels will stay pretty consistent there and the fish that are there will keep on eating as normal. As far as spring turnover, well there is no such thing. The turnover is related to thermocline which sets up in the early summer and dissipates in the fall.

Good point.

[MagikSmallie]

When the lake is turning over head for the pockets and creeks. Find water that is shallower than what the thermocline was. The water that is shallower than what the thermocline was can't turnover since, well, no thermocline. The oxygen levels will stay pretty consistent there and the fish that are there will keep on eating as normal. As far as spring turnover, well there is no such thing. The turnover is related to thermocline which sets up in the early summer and dissipates in the fall.

There is a Spring Turnover. It occurs when cold surface waters warm until they reach the temperatures of the bottom waters, producing a fairly uniform temperature distribution throughout the lake. When this occurs, winds blowing over the lake again set up a full circulation system, this mixing known as spring turnover. As the warming continues, the three water layers (epilimnion, Thermocline, and Hypolimnion) again become established.

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weathe.../turnlakes.htm