Lake Aeroflex 5/27/17:

[AndyS]

I truly believe certain lakes fish better during certain times of the year. Being a cool spring and Aeroflex being a deep lake I thought I could hit it just right right with the water turning over. I have seen some nice fish come out of there in March and April. But the amount of food in that lake, you would think there gotta be some monstahs in there !!

[Ken Lyons]

Andy, with all your great work I hate to corect you but for the greater good let me say that there is no such thing as lake turnover. In the Spring after the ice melts there is no barrier to mixing but the heaviest water is 39.2 degrees and it is at the bottom. As the surface warms winds can mix things up but roughly at 55 degrees a strange happens. As surface water is pushed against the windward bank and forced downward it reaches water that is too cold for mixing to occur. This is when the thermocline sets up. As Summer wears on the thermocline is driven deeper and deeper. The real,confusion on this is in the Fall when turnover is thought to occur. Surface water is pushed downward by the wind but it gets colder an colder unit it is cold enough to mix with the thermocline and the thermocline is absorbed. That's it. No drama but the widely held belief holds fast.

[KRocks]

The period before and during when a thermocline is established on a given body of water occurs every season in the late Spring/early Summer season.
An interim period in the late Summer early Fall and has similar characteristics which correlates directly to success in fishing. However, in many circles, these sporadic but regular seasonal episodes are referred to among many fishermen as "turnover".

Just nomenclature.

[Eskimo]

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10-dozen?


I was at the other salmon-stocked lake the other weekend. A group of bucket-sitters did real well fishing from the shoreline.

Landlocked salmon are just glorified hatchery trout.

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[bulletbob]

Landlocks like COLD water.. Up here we are generally at 10-15 degrees colder on any given day or night, year round, than most of NJ..
The landlocks here are already heading to deeper colder water, and our big , deep lakes are still only in the 50's on the surface..

Best month for them up here, 200 miles north of Aeroflex is April, but they are caught all winter in water temps down into the 30's.. I think they are most easily caught in water under 50 degrees.. They will go out of preferred temp for food, but as Andy found out, when the Herring[Sawbellies up here] are super abundant, it can be a tough go.. Up here we find the big clouds of bait, and then fish a bit away from them.. Funny thing about LL, they like cold water, but still are a higher in the thermocline during the summer months than lakers, which like even colder water than LL salmon. bob

[bulletbob]

"Landlocked salmon are just glorified hatchery trout."


Indeed they are!
They DO fight better, and taste better however..
They are also dumber than trout, more aggressive and actually easier to catch if they are at the same level of abundance as say browns or rainbows.. Only Lakers are dumber than LL!... bob