As summer sets in and water temps are now in the mid 80’s a moderate thermocline has set in around 22 feet. What does that mean? It means that little or no fish will be below that depth. Each lake is different, with some lakes having a thermocline well past 30 feet and others as shallow as 16-17 feet. It depends on water clarity, water temperature, and what type of bottom the lake is made of. As far as Cedar Creek goes, it is mostly a sandy bottom lake.
So how do you tell where the thermocline is? You don’t need a color graph or live scope, any black and white graph will do. Just see where the bait is and fish are at and once you see that nothing is below it, then that is where the thermocline is.
The last few trips have produced limits of big whites and most have been suspended over mid lake humps, 16-18 feet suspended over humps 22-26 feet. We are catching them trolling the hell/pet rigs by letting out about 75 feet of line behind boat and running big motor about walking speed or 3.2 mph, once fish are found, I toss out a marker and come back and vertical jig chrome slabs through the suspended fish. With fish being 6-8 feet off of the bottom, you can jig for them 2 ways,
1: drop spoon all the way to the bottom then raise it up over your head and jig it that way or drop spoon all the way to the bottom, crank it up 4 -5 turns then jig it up and down.
On this lake either the fish are suspended over deeper humps or are holding on bottom in shallower humps the further north up the lake you.
With a prevailing south wind, sometimes the Sandies will stack up on shallow points 8-11 feet of water, wind will push bait up shallower.
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