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20151011- Fishing a Lake experiencing the fall Turnover compared to a lake that doesn’t have a Fall Turnover

I had a great opportunity to fish two lakes in two straight days of similar weather patterns to compare the effect of the fall turnover on overall fishing performance. 20151010 fishing on Wixom Lake fishing mid fall turnover I experienced probably the worst fishing experience of my life…. Fish were recorded on sonar everywhere in the lake because of uniform temps and neutral behavior … suspended in the column from top to bottom ignoring all our offerings. We tagged one pred N.Pike all session without another bite.

We decided to fish a small natural lake the following day that does not experience a fall turnover and experienced a completely different occurrence. Fish were feeding in the shallow weed beds following the lake edge shoreline as a pattern. We slammed them in the shallows with slip bobbers and bait( crawler bits and Pink Waxies). The boat brought in easily more than a hundred fish (conservative estimate) between Earl and I. what a night and day experience between fishing outings! We extended the outing into the early dusk to experience the night crappie bit and we did just as well.

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Comment by Slip Sinker on October 22, 2015 at 10:07am

20151011 – the great bite we had that day was provided by the UL Slip Bobber rig loaded with Pink Waxies and a surprising amount of fish caught on the Chain n Crank I caught so many fish on this rig we tried to duplicate the setup for Earl with a perch colored floating Rapala about 1.5” in length. It produced 0 fish to many with the Chain N Crank. When I designed or put that setup together I was really looking for a floating rig… this rig suspends nearly perfectly and have detected and caught many fish on the pause.

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