There is a secret site at Lake Wylie...........

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Dave S

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.............where the water temperature was 78 today.:wow::wow:

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I wonder what it was around the nuke plant on lake Keowee?
 
Dave, you must have been up around the Plant Allen hot hole.? The water released from Catawba doesn't get that warm. They have cooling towers. My guess.
 
Dave:

I saw 74 on the gauge at the Little Allison Sandbar today

.....could have been all the beer drinkers standing in the water!

:grin:
 
Kendall said:
Dave:

I saw 74 on the gauge at the Little Allison Sandbar today

.....could have been all the beer drinkers standing in the water!

:grin:
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I was at Little Allison yesterday afternoon and it certainly was not 74 degrees. Must have been the beer drinkers! :grin:
 
Trusting the smartcraft? Where is the sensor?
 
burwellj78 said:
I was at Little Allison yesterday afternoon and it certainly was not 74 degrees. Must have been the beer drinkers! :grin:
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Water was definitely in the 70's as I had to get in up to my chest to place rear anchor and I did not swear but once.:smt038

When the water is really cold I usually say the F bomb several times in a row to myself.:smt100

I guess Smartcraft could be lying but water was not super cold.
 
Unfortunately the secret site is becomming too well known in the spring and fall. It definitely allows us to extend our in the water swim time. It can be as much as 10 degrees warmer there than in the rest of the lake. It regularly is in the 90s in the summer. My wife loves it at that temperature...........I hate it. But at this time if the year, it's great.

And yes the Allen Steam plant has something to do with the temperature.:wow:

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
We were out on Lake Wylie yesterday. The temps ranged anywhere from 72-75.

A question for those more familiar with Wylie than I am: we were cruising north of the BB bridge, about 2 miles. I noticed an area off to the starboard where several boats were at anchor, and lots of folks were swimming, a lot standing around, so I am thinking: shallow water, and the depth finder is showing 4'. Is it me, or is this area not well-marked? We were about 100 yds abeam of the nearest marker to our starboard, at idle speed thankfully, when the depth-finder goes from 4' depth, to crazy readings (as in too shallow to read), and I hear and feel the skeg scrape bottom. I feel the prop complain a little, so I turn quickly to port and move a little way out.

No damage done, other than a little less paint on the prop than when we started. But I was just surprised that the area isn't a little more well-marked.

Thanks,
NCC
 
Kendall said:
Water was definitely in the 70's as I had to get in up to my chest to place rear anchor and I did not swear but once.:smt038

When the water is really cold I usually say the F bomb several times in a row to myself.:smt100

I guess Smartcraft could be lying but water was not super cold.
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Kendall,
You just made me laugh out loud earning me a funny look from several passersby.

I can totally see myself in the same situation, F! F! F!!! haha.

Back in Lake St Clair, MI, we used to go in at 59 (yes) 59 degrees in the early summer and we'd put up with it because the GD boating season is so short.

59 isn't bad so long as you are drunk and you don't go in below your core for too long. But when you have to retrieve the anchor and you're in chest deep, that chill hits you hard and you begin to shiver, haha. But we'd stand all day waist deep with a couple raisins between our legs, haha.

Man, I miss you guys back in MI but I have to say these Florida dudes down here are pretty kick ass.

Enjoy the warm water and weather while you can folks!

-T
 
NCCamper said:
We were out on Lake Wylie yesterday. The temps ranged anywhere from 72-75.

A question for those more familiar with Wylie than I am: we were cruising north of the BB bridge, about 2 miles. I noticed an area off to the starboard where several boats were at anchor, and lots of folks were swimming, a lot standing around, so I am thinking: shallow water, and the depth finder is showing 4'. Is it me, or is this area not well-marked? We were about 100 yds abeam of the nearest marker to our starboard, at idle speed thankfully, when the depth-finder goes from 4' depth, to crazy readings (as in too shallow to read), and I hear and feel the skeg scrape bottom. I feel the prop complain a little, so I turn quickly to port and move a little way out.

No damage done, other than a little less paint on the prop than when we started. But I was just surprised that the area isn't a little more well-marked.

Thanks,
NCC
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That's one of the local sandbars and you need to steer clear of it unless you want to use it for hanging around with other boaters or cleaning your boat, etc. In that case raising up the drive is all it takes to gently coast in.

The other sandbar is at the end of Little Allison in a cove.

Dave
 
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