looking for the eyes and perch for friday

[LEfriend]

Well the lake is not pretty by any sense of the imagination! Here is the sat picture from yesterday, it has a ways to go yet.

http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/mod...egion=e&page=1

You got that right. I am hoping for a usable satellite pic today, but it is pretty cloudy again at my house. Does look like maybe a little better water NW of west sister. Hoping another couple days make a difference. Sure would like to get out this weekend, even if just to run the boat and catch a sheephead! Just got a text from a bud that guys that tried to go came back - 4-5 footers. Don't know if he meant today or sometime earlier this week.

[wakina]

You got that right. I am hoping for a usable satellite pic today, but it is pretty cloudy again at my house. Does look like maybe a little better water NW of west sister. Hoping another couple days make a difference. Sure would like to get out this weekend, even if just to run the boat and catch a sheephead! Just got a text from a bud that guys that tried to go came back - 4-5 footers. Don't know if he meant today or sometime earlier this week.

Well we have a stiff East North East wind here at our house today strong enough that it would keep me home if I had been heading up to fish today. Right now I am thinking Sunday the lake may be cleaned up enough for me to give it a try. We will see.

[LEfriend]

Well we have a stiff East North East wind here at our house today strong enough that it would keep me home if I had been heading up to fish today. Right now I am thinking Sunday the lake may be cleaned up enough for me to give it a try. We will see.

Toledo Harbor Light station and webcam records show NE winds 19 mph this AM and 22+ mph gusts so you probably are right. Strange though, this morning and today's webcam pics from there don't look that bad. It is hard to judge waves with a web cam, but you can usually see the whitecaps. Especially with a NE wind and the way the camera is oriented to SE, I would have expected that to show up with those winds...usually does at that station. If I were to just look at the pics I would have said looked pretty decent out there. But 15- 20 mph NE winds...you know it is bouncing at west end of lake....

[West Basin]

Very interesting!

However, the explanation the professor gave I don't think holds up to the science or physics, so I'll have to check it.

Water is an unusual substance in that it gets denser like other substances when it cools but when it freezes it gets less dense. That's why ice floats on water. Ice is also at it's most dense at around 34 degrees, then starts to expand at colder temperatures until it changes form into ice at 32 degrees. That's why ponds and lakes don't entirely freeze, the dense water stays on the bottom, unfrozen. The only physics that is probably true is sunlight would probably raise the temperature of sand in water a little faster because sand absorbs heat faster than water. Therefore there would be a very slight temperature difference between the sand particle and the surrounding water. How this may make the sand sink faster I don't know, as technically the sand would become less dense (expand) as it warms (very little in this case). This would give it more volume so it would become more buoyant and sink slower.