Square Lake April 9th (if the ice is gone)

[tcjtn0]

My thanks to Punky and Lonnie for coming out and diving Perch on Wednesday.
Punky and I got there about 1:30 PM and sat around a while before we got brave enough to try it. We went in by the boat lauch and swam out past the weed line. The viz was pretty bad around there. Then we went down the weed line over to the platform at about the 25-30 foot level. The viz cleared to about 10 feet. Someone has gotten very clever by spelling something on the platform with rocks. (BITE ME)
We then returned to the boat landing. The wind was blowing pretty good and I got chilled from the wind-chill (Had to take shelter in my car).
Lonnie showed up and we got in the water again around 6:45.
Basically we took the same path as the dive before. I brought a lite with since the sun angle was getting a little low. We all had fun playing with our dry suits. We found the platform again and then turned back around and headed back towards the boat landing. Lonnie had to leave shortly after that but Punky and I grilled out in the parking lot. The brats were good and the stew was excellent!!! Thanks Punky for bring the grill!!!

A couple of notes:
Did not see any fish (at least I didn't)
The weed line wasn't very tall but it was just as thick as it was last year.
Dive Logistics:
Dive #1 Time in: 15:56 Time out: 16:20
Bottom Time 24 Mins
Max Depth 31 feet
Temp 40 degrees
Dive #1 Time in: 18:49 Time out: 19:27
Bottom Time 38 Mins
Max Depth 28 feet
Temp 40 degrees

Thanks again for a wonderday day diving. It was good practice for the dry suits (trying to get the right amount of weight...buoyancy control etc)

Thanks again...
Jean