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Location: Tomahawk, WI | I fished Oneida Lake in Oneida county, WI on Friday. The water was thick like pea soup. Water was 64.5 degrees. Did the lake turn over and make it like that or was that a late season algae bloom? Any ideas? |
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| On the flowage it was very murky with lots of floating vegetation that looked like turnover was to blame. I had temp of 61-62 Sunday, was 59 on Friday. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | No where near turnover yet, been pretty warm. Algae has been an issue up here this year. |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | I had never seen Oneida look like that before. It was like thick green paint in some parts of the lake. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | This gets confused every year....bloom or turnover...?
Someone with ready access to a lake in each condition should put videos up... |
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| I was up there north of you in IRON county---Those lakes I fished have a ways to go till turnover. I would think another 2 weeks or so and I did fish one--a 300+ acre lake that also had a Bloom going on. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Nowhere near turnover phase, but keep in mind we had something like 6 to 8 inches of rain before last week so a ton of runoff and nutrients entered many of our lakes making them look very dirty or in bloom. |
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| thanks for the info about turnover conditions. Now I can blame the slow fishing on the warm weather instead. Will be up again in mid October to fish different conditions. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | These intense summer/late summer rains after what was an intense spring runoff have washed an amount of residual Phosphorous into the lake from farms/lawns, that hasnn't been seen in quite a few years. Many large lakes/resevoirs saw the same thing in 2010 when hit with the 100 year flood, drenching the system with phos. Made for some really good shallow water fishing on many waters but likely did little for water quality.. Late summer blooms are common, but with the forementioned and as photoperiod somewhat diminishes/weeds decide to back off on nutrient needs, blooms can really take off. We're working with the department on future regs for industry/point source, and there is a lot of attention to the Clean Water Act ignored non point runoff sources which is good to see because attention needs to be there. Taking Green Bay as an example, there will be a lot of education/funding towards some of these non point sources, coming from municipalities/industry who are already emitting less phos than the nutritional needs of even the most nominal blooms. It'll be a long road, but one that needs to be travelled. The bottom line is, if folks enjoy the lawn wars with their neighbor, expect the nearby pond/lake/reservoir to enjoy it as well.
Edited by Reef Hawg 9/29/2014 10:48 PM
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Nasty water in Oneida county