Thread: Raccoon report

75-78 wow that is warm. We need some cool weather to turn these big ones. Hopefully in the next couple weeks it will start to cool down a bit not that I want winter but just a lil cooler weather. Cool enough to keep the weekenders home so we can have the lakes back.

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Originally Posted by Trout211

There is no way that six lakes are showing faulty readings guys. Occams razor.

Trout211 - I think you're correct on this one. Fortunately, I've tracked a lot of this in the past and was able to dig through my archives and pull up some old records and lake profile graph captures from this same time period over the past 5 years. A couple years nearly mimicked what we're seeing right now, so while it seemed really early to me, especially given the hotter than normal September we had, it's only slightly earlier than most years according to my records. Was also on Heritage again on Friday and made it a point to graph the basin of the lake down near the dam and found plenty of fish using the 28-30 ft range, suggesting it has likely also neared turnover completion. Hoping to get out to Cat or Coon if the weather allows next week, so I'll see what I see there. By then a few of the Corp gauges should be updated and we'll be able to see normal progression on these lakes that weren't quite completely flipped yet on both the oxygen and water temp profiles.

As for fishing this past week, picked off 100+ crappie on Eagle Creek Tues, and then a total of 96 crappie at Heritage on Wed and Friday. Water temps in the low to mid 70s at both places and the best bite was fairly shallow, in the 8-12 ft. range.

Good info and great fishing! Nice pics!

Originally Posted by Team9nine

I agree, something doesn't appear right with the readings posted for Cat and Coon. All the other lakes listed in the area (Patoka, Monroe, Brookville) all show 'normal' readings, exactly what you'd expect for this time of year. Cataract reading is actually showing no oxygen in the entire reservoir (1 ppm at surface, nothing below that), but 6.78 ppm in the tailwater. Those two lake profiles seem highly suspicious to me, and I'd just about bet the next time they are updated, they won't look anything like what they do now. We'll see.

As for Raccoon, while the weights were up compared to how the guys have fared in past tourneys there, "sizable keepers" is about the best I'd give it. A very fun lake for catching eaters, but I don't think many of the guys looked forward to that event this year because it is dominated by so many smaller fish. Was really surprised they went there instead of Cataract, but maybe the water level fluctuations were too much of an iffy thing. Now, Monroe on the other hand - lol.

Do you have any updates on these posts concerning fall turnover?

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Originally Posted by Fishinfred

Do you have any updates on these posts concerning fall turnover?

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They've updated a few of the profiles, and things are mostly as expected. Patoka and Monroe are still thermoclined, but slowly breaking apart. Raccoon isn't complete yet, and I thought the newest data was slightly wonky. Cataract hasn't been updated, nor have the northern reservoirs. I did message a friend that lives on one of the northern lakes, and he said they are nowhere close to turning over (this was over a week ago). He showed me a screenshot from his local lake and they were definitely thermoclined at around 22 ft. still. He said it would be a few weeks still for those natural lakes. Not sure why the reservoirs act differently from the natural lakes. Might have something to do with water movement through the bypass gates and dam, but the reservoirs are so much larger, I would think they'd be more stable because of it, but that hasn't been the case this year.

Brief report: Hit EC Wed. and it is still running 70-72 degrees. Crappie were biting both shallow and deep, but the quality fish came shallow. The deeper I went, the smaller they got - lol. Ended up with 136 in 3.5 hours of fishing.

Thanks for that report, great catch also.