Lake Erie???

[fishhunter911]

Has anyone heard about the drop in water level on the west side of lake erie??

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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I haven't heard anything on the news for the last couple of days. Today with the winds 9 to 16 foot waves. Thats the biggest that I've seen forcasted for Erie.....SS

 

[pjc]

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if the winds on Erie are like the winds here yesterday and today--that would explain low water on west end.<br />55 mph or so sustained gusts yesterday-blew away my Slickcraft Restoration Center temporary shelter. Heep Big Blow

 

[LadyFish]

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My guess is that MY, Gonefishn, Pat Campbell, JGregory, SpecksnReds and SBN met to go fishing. After a full day of a big fat ZERO due to using those new homemade lures, they opened the flood gates to try and draw more fish to the east side of the lake and increase their chances.

 

[JGREGORY]

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Shhhhh!!!! You'll give away our secret. <br /><br />By the way it's blowing like crazy here, sustained gusts up to 60mph is what I heard. Scheesh.

 

[Topmason]

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I gotta bite here.<br />Just how long can the water be lower on the West side before it becomes the same on the East??<br />What am I missing here?

 

[Specks n Reds]

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[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Topmason, the wind will move the water if it is a sustained wind for any amount of time in one certain direction to the effect of water being lower in one place more than others.<br /><br />FYI, this was all typed by me.

 

[tylerin]

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Topmason, the wind will move the water if it is a sustained wind for any amount of time in one certain direction to the effect of water being lower in one place more than others<br /><br />FYI this was stolen from Spinner, but who cares its good info

 

[Topmason]

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I thank ya'll for the H2O Ed.

 

[BassMan283]

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When the wind stops, it would be a good plan to move to higher ground.

 

[Link]

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Topmason<br />I'm glad you asked the question! I was just sitting here wondering the same thing<br /><br />(This is not a cut and paste)

 

[JHOLE]

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The water was down about 4 or 5 feet yesterday morning. Its still dark here so I don't know if it has come back yet. Normally at the end of my pier it is about 4 feet deep, yesterday the you would have to walk (or drive) about 1000 yards to get to the water. I have some pics of this in the past, I'll see if I can find 'em.<br /><br />The wind does have effect but the main reason for the water going east like this is difference in barometric pressure between east end and west end of Lake Erie.

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

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we are having "blowout tides" here on the east coast, low tides are five feet lower in some spots<br /><br />not that any sane man would be out in that chit, but the big boats gotta deal with it, especially laden tankers coming up the del river or out in the del bay, some of them scrape bottom as it is<br /><br />I vividly remember running aground on the Cape May Ferry, I was down in the hold checking out the cars (I was around 10, a car nut kid) then going to the bow and seeing the water go very light colored, (sand) and ... STOPPING, BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG from the cars all shifting forward, and my hair going up on the back of my neck, thinking about just being between all those cars ...<br /><br />(and mom screaming and crying and generally carrying on coming to find me, I was thinking about laying down under a car, but was too afraid the idiot captain would run aground AGAIN - yeah, I was a bad kid )<br /><br />thank God it wasnt like today, all those blasted Car Alarms going off!<br /><br />hmmmmmmmmmmmm ....<br /><br />where the ferry launches the canal is very shallow from those big basstards backing out then sending those six foot screws into overdrive to turn them <br /><br />I bet that bar is exposed, I wonder when low tide is at the ferry? lol, yeah, I would go down and take a picture!!!<br /><br />(Liz's ex lives right near the Bay of Fundy, I bet that would REALLY be wild, those tides fifty feet on a good day up near the head of the bay

 

[JHOLE]

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<br /><br />I hope I did that right. This isn't the best photo but it was in the computer already. It's light out now and the water's back. If I get a chance later I'll post where the water is supposed to be.

 

[JGREGORY]

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Ray, Low tide for 11/14 @ Cape May harbor is 4:10 am and 5:10 pm, if you go take some pics.

 

[pjc]

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hey LadyFish, I wasn't fishing with those buds,--I was however out in the yard casting a "magnum" practice plug that the wind got ahold of---wind grabbed 'er, stripped all braided dacron off reel--ker snap--big ol' plug heading east southeast--<br /><br />this was a monster plug--made to simulate the huge baits that we toss for the mighty musky--helps to tone and season muscle groups necessary to hunt giant 'lunge---I figure the jet stream took that plug and slammed 'er into Erie--dern lucky no tsunami was created washing east Erie shoreline back to Jersy-