Giving up their heat

[SammyLee]

These last few mornings have been a bit cooler, around 68 or so when I get to the peninsula on the lake near my home. Sometimes the wind is dead calm and then the breeze just kinda puffs a few currents of air across the lake to me. The temperature rises a few degrees for a dozen seconds. I realize it's the heat of the lake moving into the atmosphere. How cool (or warm, as the case may be) is that? Can you imagine how many btu's this 40 acre lake holds?

It makes me glad as this lake has had a surface temperature in the low 80's and I've been hoping for cooler days and waters to reactivate the fish. August was SLOW.

BTW, I did get invited to a private 5 acre lake in Sommerville TN last Friday.  We got there about 5 pm and I caught a couple of dinks then it slowed.  My buddy got a 5 pound (digital scales) catfish on an crappy rod, ultra lite.  What fun.  I finessed some worms then switched to a shallow crank, sexy shad.  BANG!  A 3 pound 14 oz. pit bull of a bass slammed into it.  It was getting near dark and I threw a topwater popper.  WHAM! 2 pounds 11 oz.  These fish fought like they were mad at the world!  What fun.

[roadwarrior]

As the days get shorter, night time temperatures are the key.

Water temperatures will drop ten degrees or more over the next

several weeks, especially with all the rainfall we are getting. We

are definitely in the autumn mode.

8-)

[Paul Roberts]

What's cooler than that, is that you noticed. 8-)

Yup, it's comin'. And it's exponential.

[Lund Explorer]

These last few mornings have been a bit cooler, around 68 or so when I get to the peninsula on the lake near my home. Sometimes the wind is dead calm and then the breeze just kinda puffs a few currents of air across the lake to me. The temperature rises a few degrees for a dozen seconds. I realize it's the heat of the lake moving into the atmosphere. How cool (or warm, as the case may be) is that? Can you imagine how many btu's this 40 acre lake holds?

It makes me glad as this lake has had a surface temperature in the low 80's and I've been hoping for cooler days and waters to reactivate the fish. August was SLOW.

BTW, I did get invited to a private 5 acre lake in Sommerville TN last Friday. We got there about 5 pm and I caught a couple of dinks then it slowed. My buddy got a 5 pound (digital scales) catfish on an crappy rod, ultra lite. What fun. I finessed some worms then switched to a shallow crank, sexy shad. BANG! A 3 pound 14 oz. pit bull of a bass slammed into it. It was getting near dark and I threw a topwater popper. WHAM! 2 pounds 11 oz. These fish fought like they were mad at the world! What fun.

Not sure what 40 acres holds, but I've seen what Lake Michigan can do during the winter.  Poor Koopa sits in Wisconsin some mornings when its 15 below zero, and when that same air hits here its at 15 above.  All we have to deal with is all of the extra snow.

[looking4structure]

As the days get shorter, night time temperatures are the key.

Water temperatures will drop ten degrees or more over the next

several weeks, especially with all the rainfall we are getting. We

are definitely in the autumn mode.

x2

[fishfordollars]

Thank God. I've had all of this hot, dry summer I want. Bring it on.

[Raul]

Oh yeah, it 's getting cooler ....... haven 't seen the sun in over a month either ! it 's been raining for over a couple of moths on a daily basis  , it rained all night long, yesterday ? yup it rained, the day before ? you guessed right, it rained !  

It 's rained so much that algae is growing on the concrete on the shady spots of my house 's patios, can go fishing to all the nearby lakes ( them dirt roads are mud !  > ) so I have to calm my desires fishing my cousin 's ponds.  :-[, not that I complain too much, but it 's beginning to get boring catching the same fish and fishing the same place over and over again.