Water temps

[JeffreySB1]

Just checked the water temp at the Holland buoy. Surface water temp dropped from 56 degrees at 6:30am today to 41.2 degrees at 7:30pm!

[Fowlpursuit]

It's crazy. 5 years ago it did this on 4th of July.. My brother and I headed out..got beat up pretty good by 4-6 footers but in 1 pass pier heads to tunnel park and back 25-50fow we totally boxed out on monster kings,giant steel head and a few dandy lakers.. Took a cruise to the beach tonight and it broke my heart to see the fishy water with no boats upon it. I know wat ur all thinking-y didn't I go out? It's because I no longer have my big boat and now unfortunately restricted to a 14footer.. Hopefully someone will capitalize on the fish before the big red this weekend..they'll prolly catch them all..lol

[SeaCatMich]

Today's 5' seas are supposed to be down to 1-2' by tomorrow. Should have fish at the pier heads and with 1' seas the rest of the week may keep thm close too. Probably true for all of the river mouths.

[Mega Byte]

Speaking of buoys, the one off Port Sheldon got hit by a boat on Saturday. If you go to the website for the webcam on the buoy it's showing an old picture, not a current one.

[Just Hook'n]

Are you kidding me.....a boat hit the weather buoy...commooooon man.

[everhamme]

Speaking of buoys, the one off Port Sheldon got hit by a boat on Saturday. If you go to the website for the webcam on the buoy it's showing an old picture, not a current one.

A boat did in fact hit the buoy.

The buoy is not a destination and folks shouldn't try to find it, especially in the fog! The lat/lon of the buoy is shown at the top of the page for each buoy on this website http://uglos.mtu.edu/ please mark it and stay away. At least 500 ft in all directions.

I am headed over today to try to restore the buoy to full capacity! Its actually still semi-reporting despite having the top mast broke off.

[danthebuilder]

It's crazy. 5 years ago it did this on 4th of July.. My brother and I headed out..got beat up pretty good by 4-6 footers but in 1 pass pier heads to tunnel park and back 25-50fow we totally boxed out on monster kings,giant steel head and a few dandy lakers.. Took a cruise to the beach tonight and it broke my heart to see the fishy water with no boats upon it. I know wat ur all thinking-y didn't I go out? It's because I no longer have my big boat and now unfortunately restricted to a 14footer.. Hopefully someone will capitalize on the fish before the big red this weekend..they'll prolly catch them all..lol

The water has been cold in close for a few days. Before the storm hit It was calm enough for a 14 footer to go out. There was quite a few people here in south haven trolling the shallow water. I've been on the pier the last few days having a blast. No boat needed. Yesterday, I had to move to the southern pier due to the waves. This happens every year.

[SeaCatMich]

Are you kidding me.....a boat hit the weather buoy...commooooon man.

[Fowlpursuit]

Never ceases to amaze me how often boats run right over good numbers of fish all to go join the "fleet"

[SUPERTRAMP]

Just checked the Cook Plant buoy, and its reading 66.8 o surface and 66.1 at the 8th thermistor, really kind of different! Is this accurate?

[Dr Hook]

Judging by the Coastwatch satellite temps, I'd say yes.

[littleboat]

Ludington has the same problem. Just got here and the water temp is 44 on top and 41 at 70' almost everywhere. I think I'll put my waiters on and cast.

LB

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[Just Hook'n]

Someone said it flipped again - warmer.

I think the cold water at the beach was a pretty fast event.