What's the water temp today? Please update

[MikeG3Boat]

Where are the water temps now with all the rain?  Coming up for a week on Friday and want to see what I can find out.  I have had a very poor fishing so far this year.  New to the area and just can't figure it out.  Home is on the west end of big bay.

[Dash 1]

74 in big bay this morning.  Now I just need to find the fish. 

[mbeyer]

water temps dropping, yet?

[Brianf.]

65 this morning.  
 

Supposed to be in the mid 30s tonight so it's probably gonna lose some more. 

[MikeG3Boat]

Last weekend I still had water temperatures at 72 degrees Friday afternoon September 27th.  On Sunday morning we had 66 degrees in big bay.  

 

Any update on this this week?  Heading back up Tonight.  Hope to see people on the water.  Thanks!

[FishinCT]

I’m looking for an update as well. Would be nice to see them start to dip into the 50s. Better for fishing and the sauna

[jparrucci]

57 this morning, dramatic change from last weekend. Fish were biting when you could keep the boat at a steady pace, wind is howling. Lots of small walleye some keepers tossed in. 

[JerkinLips]

55 Wednesday evening.

[Brianf.]

47 this morning for those still interested in getting out. 

[mbeyer]

I'd love to....

[JerkinLips]

45.6°F Saturday afternoon.  Lake Vermilion was quite empty.

[BWpineisland]

Jerkin, how was the fishing?

[JerkinLips]

On 11/4/2024 at 7:28 AM, BWpineisland said:

Jerkin, how was the fishing?

Pretty tough.  Was catching about 2 walleyes per hour and the biggest was only 13".  Back up Thursday so I hope I have better success.

[SkunkedAgain]

It doesn't look like the lake level has gone up at all. I was up a week ago and struggled to get my boat in and out of the public landing on the west end of Head O Lakes. I used my paddle to push the boat further out to deeper water. I could hear the hull moving over the sandy/muddy bottom near the launch.

[JerkinLips]

41.6°F in Stuntz Bay Thursday morning.  Left my boat in the water to hopefully fish more before the lake freezes.  Caught four 9-11" walleyes in 2½ hours before I gave up due to the strong west wind.  Water level has not gone up more than a couple of inches at the most.  May be a good winter to jack my boathouse out of the water on the deep end.

[SkunkedAgain]

The water temps on the west end Friday were 45 in HeadOLakes and 44 in the smaller bays.

[JerkinLips]

Had 30 feet of ice out from my Stuntz Bay boathouse on Tuesday afternoon.  None inside the boathouse so I was easily able to remove my boat from the lake (just pushed the ice away in reverse and drove forward through it with my 16 foot aluminum boat).  Didn't hook up my battery so I didn't get the lake temp.  Were lots of boat trailers parked at the landing.  Hope they get off the lake easily.  Will be ice fishing in 4 weeks.

[SkunkedAgain]

That's good news. I haven't seen any ice in Black Bay yet, but it looks like the small bays should start to freeze up this weekend. Hopefully we make some ice next week.

 

Below is the forecast for Cook. We should have temps mostly below zero . The bottom section below shows that it should not be windy, and no snow is predicted. All good signs for making ice.