In my never-ending quest to catch the next pesky fish, I dig up an awful lot of information, which is one of the really great things about trying to be a good fisherman. I figure the better I ...

Jonathan Sharples, C. Mark Moore, Tom P. Rippeth, Patrick M. Holligan, David J. Hydes, Neil R. Fisher and John H. Simpson Limnology and Oceanography (L&O;) publishes research articles, reviews, and ...

Most anglers have likely heard the words "thermocline" and "turnover" associated with local fishing reports and dock talk. Both result from thermal stratification, an annual occurrence at a majority ...

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 80A, No. 1 (1980), pp. 57-62 (6 pages) In a recent theoretical study, Hodnett (1978 "J. Mar. Res." 36 (1), ...

A study of sea surface temperatures and the thermocline, a subsurface water layer in which temperature decreases rapidly with depth, in the western equatorial Pacific over the past 142,000 years finds ...

Each summer our local reservoirs begin to stratify with the warmest water near the surface and with the coldest water near the bottom. This stratification occurs because the warmer water becomes, the ...

RECENTLY, Salzen 1 has shown that there is a marked difference with depth in the species composition of the demersal fish fauna off Tema in Ghana. He found that there was a distinct change from ...

Each summer stratification of the waters in our two local reservoirs, Belton and Stillhouse Hollow, takes place. This stratification significantly impacts fish location and, therefore, fishing.

The lengthy branches of the brushpile reached several feet upward. On my sonar, the limbs looked like arms cradling what I suspected were crappies. Confident that my boat was over fish 20 feet down, I ...