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I went fishing Saturday. The creek that we started fishing in had spots every 8-10 feet that had bubbles coming to the surface. Columns of them. Not small aerator sized bubbles. Nickel/quarter sized bubbles. I could see them on my DI and SI too, coming up from the bottom of the lake. Acres and acres of this going on.
Is that a sign that the turnover is happening? If not, anyone got any ideas what that was?
I witnessed the same thing in some shallow creeks here Sunday.
It could be methane gas from decomposing matter in the muck and silt on the bottom.
I did see a lot of suspended algae for lack of a better word in the creeks that had tons of bubbles
Saw that in the creeks of the lake I fished last week, just not those sizes of bubbles. I don't think it's a sign of turnover, around here anyway, as the surface temps are still in the mid 70's (and in many cases the temps are the same down to nearly 15-20ft deep).
Water temps here have dropped around 9 degrees in the last week. It was our first good cool snap
Earthquake !!!
I don't think it has anything to do with a "turnover" of the water. First of all, flowages (creeks being a flowage) don't usually stratify with a thermocline. Moving water keeps it pretty well mixed, top to bottom. Consequently, the water never really turns over, the way it does in large lakes and some deep reservoirs. At least that is what I've always been taught.
I can't speak for FurFlyin. My creek is part of a TVA hydro lake I had not thought about water flow not allowing a lake to stratify. The lake level was being lowered to winter pool level. Around 3 feet of water had been drained from the lake. The act of lowering the water level may have caused the algae to become dislodged and floatingQuote:
Originally Posted by Crestliner08
The lower water would also change the pressure on the stuff on the bottom, possibly allowing gases to act differently also. That’s what went through my mind.
I was thinking the same thing. It was an odd sight.Quote:
Originally Posted by skeetbum
Saw the same thing up the river in 15-20’ water Saturday! Russia I guess :dono Kinda wondered what it was!!!! Saw it in several places we were getting bunches of water from up river also ! And we are still getting lots of current I went out to the river out this evening for about and hour came back into one of the creeks was going to make a few cast and before I could get up and get the trolling motor deployed all the way the back end had already past up the front so I stowed the trolling and came on home
It probably was just gases coming up from the bottom. It was an enormous area though. I'm guessing 1/2 mile or more long and 100-150 yards wide. Lake Guntersville does set up a thermocline. The creek I was in has very little if any inflow right now. It's terribly dry and even in normal years there isn't much inflow in the fall.
Mitch it's odd that you're talking about current. I didn't go out on the main river much Saturday but at Short creek there was no current under the bridge. We fished there for 30 minutes or so and our minnows went straight down. Usually they'll drift one way or the other depending on whether they are generating power or not.
Russia or the Ukraine. Them communists are going to get us. They were spying on fishermen at their hotspots in another thread:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Slabprowler
My thoughts is the stuff on the bottom of the lake rottening and causing a gas from it to excape to the top of the water. During hurricane Katrina the county buried the trees and all under dirt in a dirt pit close to where I hunt. I seen steam type gas coming from the ground a lot of mornings while passing through going hunting. Thats my 2 cents worth :twocents and that's not worth much.:Rofl
Mitch it's odd that you're talking about current. I didn't go out on the main river much Saturday but at Short creek there was no current under the bridge. We fished there for 30 minutes or so and our minnows went straight down. Usually they'll drift one way or the other depending on whether they are generating power or not.
i switched to a 1/8th and still couldn’t get it down vertical ! This was in the main river about 9 am-11 when I decided to quit fighting the current and the wind ! Tm was on 5 and still couldn’t keep up!
Guntersville gets a good bit of current when they are generating heavy
Mitch they may have been pulling water while you were there and not when I was there. We went that afternoon. There was so little current in the creek that the breeze was pushing us UP the creek. It wasn't real windy either.
Could have been I was ridding my x mark from about 11:30 —- 7pm so I wouldn’t know ! :biggrin
this is a strange question ,but was the area in a funky foul odor ? sometimes when they turn here you can smell it pretty strongly , like sewage is my best description .
Ketchn, no I didn’t smell anything bad or weird. I did have my 17 year old son with me though so his smell may have been covering it up. LOL
No smell where I was either