Mobile App for fishing Lake Washington & Lake Sammamish

[natenez]

I've written an app that will help you catch more fish on Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish. It displays data from the weather bouys operated by King County.

As the thermocline develops in fall, you can see where it is. Then set your gear to be that depth, and you are the right depth for catching fish. G-man has a great presentation at http://home.comcast.net/~grgraumann/Cut ... ington.pdf where he explains in more detail about the thermocline.

The app is available for Windows Phone (7.1 and newer) at http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store ... 3bdf47e4ed

If you have a Windows 8 computer or tablet then you can get it here http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US ... c33565ae14

It really does work. In September I was out on Lake Sammamish with some friends. I fired up the app (then in development) and saw the thermocline was at 30’ deep. We let out our lines, attached it to the downrigger and lowered them down. One just above the thermocline at 28’ and one just below at 32’. 10 minutes later we landed 2 nice fish.

Hope you find them helpful.

PS: I know someone will ask about an iPhone/iPad/Android version. Unfortunately at this time I don't have plans to develop a version for those platforms.

Tight Lines All!

[Mike Carey]

well, better get it on your list! Hope to see an Android version out someday. This is a pretty unique app, any other lakes have the monitoring stations (none that I'm aware of)?

[Bodofish]

For a buck and a half I had to have but I sure dont see much anyting resembling a thermocline.

[natenez]

For a buck and a half I had to have but I sure dont see much anyting resembling a thermocline.

Great question.

If there is a thermocline or not, and how deep it is, depends on lake conditions. Now, in winter, there is no thermocline in those lakes because the water is too cold.

Once the surface temp gets around 50ish you'll start to see the thermocline develop. As the water gets warmer, the thermocline will get deeper. So pick a day for a previous year between May and December (September would work great) and you'll see the thermocline.

Thanks for purchasing the app.

[Bodofish]

Not a prob, gotta support us geeks! I understand it only show the lake conditions. I was just expecting to see something a little different or obvious. When I'm out on Lake Washington in Jan and I choose to show the water temp graph on the FF, it shows the thermocline around 60' when it's below freezing out. I know all it can do is extrapolate where it thinks it is. The other interesting thing is how constant the temp is from 5' all the way down, when it's cold out the surface temp is suprisingly close to the air temp and warms 10 or degrees in less than 5 feet so, I guess that puts the termocline almost at the surface when I thought it would be way deep. No doubt it will be a great tool as spring comes around. Now to get the County or State to some more rigs out......