Muir Lake

[Trout Addict]

I was out on Muir lake with my son on September 11 and the water was so murky you couldn't even see a few inches down. I have been fishing it for over 15 years and was out earlier in the year with great visibility.
Never got a bite which wasn't surprising .

My question is it fall turnover already? Just seemed early to me

Thanks

[Howard Hutchinson]

We live out near Muir. I heard that heat wave really hit that lake had and there were many that didn't make it.

[Pierre]

A lake I usually fish up north turns over around the middle of October, I would think we're still a few weeks away from turnover. Thick algae was prolly the cause of poor vis, not turnover.

As Howard has said, I also heard Muir suffered at least 'partial' summerkill

[Gerald J]

I'm not sure it's turnover or not. There was a thread about this lake last year in the fall. I had fished it three weeks in a row and turnover couldn't possibly last that long. Responses were that there seem to be other factors at play here.

I also notice earlier in the year is not as bad. In the fall, sometimes only inches.

[Trout Addict]

Appreciate the replies, I didn't even think of Algae.

That was a smoking hot summer, I stayed away.

Did catch an honest 22 inch Brown in June, what an absolute tank!

Shame that lakes not 15 feet deeper

[Prospector6600]

Hi. What does turnover refer too?