alright guys, so i just got back from diving conneaut. first dive was on tuesday noonish time. took the boat out, random spot in the middle of the lake, dropped anchor. did my boat entrance, went down the anchor line. from surface to -20ft i had real bad vis about 0-5ft. got down to the anchor at 44ft and had 0ft of visibility. had my flash light and strobe... still could see nothing, using my 750 lumen UK LED light. so i aborted the dive.
went back to the dock, did about a 30min shore dive in shallow waters with about 5ft of vis.
the next day i went to a different location (the sand bar) anchored there and did a shallow dive. vis was greater that day, id say about 5-10ft. in shallow water <10ft.
did that for about 45 mins, and on the way back i decided to drop anchor one more time in a different location in the middle of the lake. so i go in, go down the anchor line. surface temps were 77, hit 2 thermoclines going don to 45ft. bottom temps were 54! but the vis was significantly greater with my light... id say about 20-30ft. and the lake floor was completely flat from everything i saw, no sea-weed, no dips or valleys.
that being said, im still open to explore to conneaut, its all trial and error at this point.
i did not find any wrecks or barely any fish what so ever. just shallow water fish in sea-weed. i did manage to find a full set of car keys and the remote. lol.
so if you guys would want to do some trial and error searching with me, im up for it still, just remember to play it safe, especially with the amount of sea-weed in this lake
