looking for the eyes and perch for friday

[lazy 8]

I have some family coming up from florida to fish. would like to put them on some fish to eat. going out of meinkies west. any infowould be great. will be out all day Friday ong channel 79

[Nightshft]

I was thinking of going out Friday but the fact that there are no replies to your post is not a good sign. Lol...Guess lake is still a mess.

[West Basin]

"The sun helps settle the sand that is clouding the water." ???

Fishing reports I've received are all poor except a few from Canada, and it's slowed down up there too. According to the Modis Satellite the only areas that look to clear significantly this weekend would be NW of West Sister Island and along the border from North Bass to Kelleys. However, there are walleye all around the western basin including much closer to shore. If you want to stay closer to the mainland, because of the light wind forecast I'd try near rocky areas where the mussels will clear the water faster. Not much wind to cause currents to move that water, so as it clears the fish will find it. Maybe the area between South Bass, Rattlesnake, North Bass, and Middle Bass box. Lots of mussels in that zone. Also east of Kelleys. Check the modis every evening and look for areas where the water is starting to clear, even little areas. I'd also try fishing the top half of the water column, even try more muddy water. The visibility down near the bottom is probably near zero in many places so there probably won't be any walleye down there that are active. If there are active walleye they will probably be up in the water column in a zone of visibility that is advantageous to them for catching prey. It's going to be a great weather 4th of July weekend so get out and enjoy it!Good Luck!

The waves at the Channel Marker webcams appear smaller because those cameras are something like 50 feet or more up on the structure. Whatever they look like add a foot or two.

[wakina]

[QUOTE=West Basin;48781]"The sun helps settle the sand that is clouding the water." ???

I had an old Geology Professor who taught at BGSU tell me that when I was in my teens. He explained that a hot bright sun warmed the water around the individual sand particals at a different rate than the sand particals themselves, helping the two separate allowing the sand to fall back to the bottom much faster than if they remained at approximately the same temperature. He went on to explain the water was supporting the sand in suspension and water actually contracts some as it warms and expands as it becomes colder due to the different gases that make up the chemical formula for water. I never questioned his statement and thru obsevation over the years his statement seem to be correct, at least about the water clarity part of it. I hope that heips with your question the question marks implied!

[wakina]

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

[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.

[LEfriend]

Here is one reason it is going to take a while for clouds and rain to clear out. Map is June rainfall...look at all the red/purple to west in Indiana and Illinois... 13-18 inches and that doesn't include the big storm last of may! As weather comes through it is going to continue to pick up all that moisture in the system to the west of us for a while...