Some decent info regarding lake turnover

[Skunk City]

I dont know how many of you read any of the weekly freshwater fishing reports out there, but there are a few I frequent. This particular clip was from fishingreportsnow.com. It has a weekly North Jersey specific report which is usually pretty helpful. I am not associated with their website at all, I just found this weeks report particularly interesting to a newb autumn fisherman like myself.

"Autumn can bring rougher weather, but can also offer some of the best fishing of the year. Few boats fished the lake, and Dave liked that about autumn, too. Greenwood was 61 degrees, relatively warm, and when the temps dip to the 50s, fishing could become especially good, as the fish fatten up for winter. The lake was yet to turn over. Cold weather and winds sustained a long time, like a week, are needed to turn over a lake. Then the top of the lake mixes with the bottom, until all the depths become about the same temperature. That’s turn over. Then the fish tend to swim all over the water column, not just along the thermocline like now. When the lake holds different temps or a thermocline, anglers say the lake is stratified. Fishing is usually slow a moment when turn over happens, and some say the waters smell like sulfur, because of the bottom waters reaching the top."