Pacemaker Fishing Forum

So, some of you know that I am on the Lake Anna Advisory Committee (LAAC) and project manager for a scientific study on the Hazardous Algae Bloom (HAB) issue that has been plaguing the lake for the past 3+ years.  Some of the data being acquired gives me a little edge on where the stripers will be.  Everyone knows what a thermocline is, right?  You can't see it on a fish finder, but stripers like to be in the middle of it because of higher dissolved oxygen than above or below it.  So there is a calculation for some data on water density at different depths that gives something called "Relative Thermal Resistance to Mixing" or RTRM for short.  Here is the graph from the last 2 months:

Where the bars are the longest is where the thermocline is.  Essentially the thermocline is at 14-17 feet deep.  Although there is some resistance in the 19-24 foot range, another graph of dissolved oxygen shows little oxygen at that depth.  So.............this tells me what depth to concentrate my efforts..........14-17 FOW!  And that is where I have been fishing the last couple months.

More data to be acquired next week...........to keep up my fishing streak.........ohhh, and fix the HAB issue