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| I was out Saturday on Pelican, had water temps at 54-56. The water was a bit murky with some debris floating in it, I would think a dead giveaway that I hit turnover right between the lookers.
First drift produces a 40 inch tiger, the second has a mid to high thirties chasing my sucker but it wouldn't hit and one other follow an a dawg, nothing on the next spot, but on the fourth spot I had two different fish grabbing suckers, and the last drift of the day sees another 40 incher on a quickstrike.
All in all pretty good day, and I am sure the lake was in the middle of the turnover. When I started the day I was doubtful there would be much action, but it was steady with eaters over the entire 6 hours of fishing. Any ideas on what triggered these fish, or am I wrong that the lake was in turnover? I thought they were supposed to be tough when the lakes turned?? | |
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| Hey Norm it sounds like you got Pelican pegged. I've gotta get to know you better.he,he,he. I think the biggest reason why turnover is considered a difficult time to fish is because the fish can literally be anywhere. Baitfish and muskies can be in really shallow water or hanging deep. It's a time when location is more difficult. Oxygen levels are replinished throughout the water column so the fish are more of a needle in a haystack. Muskies will feed during turnover, but it's also known that they feed heavily prior to turnover also. Maybe the binge feeding prior to turnover makes for slower action until the water clears up.
We had some success by having a fish grab a 10 Jake this past Saturday on a lake that appeared to be turning over. But we also tried fishing the deep clear lakes where turnover happens later than the stained lakes. We had 58 degrees on the gin bottles and 55 degrees on the stained water.
Good job on the fish and keep popping those ornery cusses on Pelican.
catch ya later,
Krappie | |
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| Hi Norm,
My partner and I experienced the same thing on Big Arb during a tournament this past weekend. I had a 6° temp swing from the north end to the south end. Visibility ranged from 18" to 36" in some parts. We moved 11 fish, two made attempts to attack the reef hawg I was throwing, and the rest came in pretty hot on the bait, but backed off at the last minute. Turnover was in full swing, and I too was surprised to see how aggresive the fish were.
Had I been able to put hooks into the two fish that blew up on my hawg, I am sure my partner and I would have finished in the top five somewhere. Maybe next time!
Mike G.
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| The water on my home lakes (small and shallow) just turned over at 62 degrees. I had been doing pretty bad until now. I had a nice blowup on a doc today (over about 12 feet of water) and yesterday I was trolling and caught a walleye in about 10-12 feet of water probobly running right on the bottom with a bagley DB4. I'm wondering how bad turnover really is. | |
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Turnover and Fish Activity