The Lodge at Suttle Lake made a very nice move to help out we fishers. They bought (after my 6th request or so
) a nice weather station with water temperature probe. Their past web provider could not figure out how to get the data to show on their website, but they are committed. So they dumped that outfit and hired a new one. They are hoping to have wind and water temperature displayed automatically sometime soon. In the meantime, they just started manually entering limited info. Thank Curtis and Cynthia for that! Look for this at
www.thelodgeatsuttlelake.com:
The boat ramp is OPEN, and so is fishing season (year round).
So, says you, it looks like the water temp was 35 on 3/20 -- whats with the 51 degrees? It was 51 at 6pm near the end of a nice sunny day, in one spot -- shallow in front of the lodge, the only place they can get their probe in the water and get power to it. All of you HydroPhysicists out there know there is NO WAY the lake heated up 16 degrees in one day. It was 36 the following morning.
So don't put any stock in anything but morning temps from the lodge, at least for fishing. The lodge is at the east end of the lake so during the day the prevailing west wind and the current caused by the outlet at the east end, concentrate surface water in front of the lodge. Their temp probe has a fairly short lead on it, so it's hard for them to get the probe deep enough to filter out this effect.
Anyone been fishing it? Catching?
Suttle Lake water temp 51 degrees 3/19!
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