Is there a reason that the lake is back up to the 700s are they testing the dam or is the water coming in too fast to let it out it has not been this high since may of 2006 it somewhat nice to see it.
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Lake Cumberland back to 700
Is there a reason that the lake is back up to the 700s are they testing the dam or is the water coming in too fast to let it out it has not been this high since may of 2006 it somewhat nice to see it.
Have Fun and Be Safe GREEN RIVER TIME
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Way too much water coming in and the Corp can't keep up. Thye are sweating bullets right now with these levels. With the spring rains right around the corner and big system after another pounding Ky it's not looking good for Cumberland this coming season right now at all.
I'm very concerned about the lake and the river. Forecasters are saying to look for another unusually wet year around here to, imagine that.
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Not to mention that we have another large front moving in today and tonight, then moving back out by Wednesday. I agree mhall, I'm concerned as well. The future of this fishery is looking very dismal at the moment. Cumberland's walleye population has been in decline, and the conditions the lake has been put in for the last couple of years can't help other species as well. This saddens me -- Cumberland is only about 40 minutes from where I live, and it is a lake that I used to frequent often with my father-in-law. The efforts at the dam will have to be completed before the fish can sustain acceptable oxygen levels, along with water quality being improved.Originally Posted by mhall
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I agree Shimano. Fishing at the Big C last year was not very good either. It was the worst night bite for the stripers that many have seen for several years. When they get the dam fixed and let the lake come back to it's old self, maybe we'll get the lake back in good shape. I certainly don't want a drought, but we need a break from all this precipitation for awhile.
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Re: Lake Cumberland back to 700
Lake cumberland was the main reason we moved here.I lived here almost 2 yrs before I made my first trip to dale. I wasn't that impressed with the river at first, I have caught many trout bigger than the ones at the river. BUT comes summer time, it was relaxing to get away from house boats jet ski's water skiers, and other pleasure craft. Now I'm considering moving, I dont have that many years left to wait for the "come back". Will stay in KY, but closer to barren and nolin. I live less than 20 miles from both lakes and the river, so this has ben a major disappointment for me.
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My son has asked me several times to move to Ga. He has a house on the water at lake sinclair, and its only 10 miles to lake oconee. Have fished lanier , sinclair, and oconee. Flipping docks is not my cup of tea! Sure I could leave my boat in the water , catch crappies and wipers, and look at neighbors all the time. Many of the lakes up north have also been populated, and crowded. I feel for you guys, The good ole days were just that, fishing will never be as easy again, or as cheap as it used to be. How many of you have needed to wait for a bear to go away so you could get to your boat, or have heard a trumpeter, or seen a wild whopping crane. Or had a giant mule deer watch you wade a shallow stream in the mountains of colorado, before it was taken over by ski lodges? By the way, I am not old enough to remember dinosauers, but did have buffalos almost in reach at our camp ground at custer state park.
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Drove over Wolf Creek dam on my way to Burksville this morning. Man, what a MESS. This old mans' eyes could see that trash all the way out to 300 - 400 feet from the dam
. Trees, I mean BIG ONES and all other sorts of wood. Point IS: If you are on the lake, go slow....slow...and maintain GOOD VISUAL OBSERVATION. You never know WHAT'S OUT THERE
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At 700 plus feet, most of the COE docks are "OUT IN THE LAKE AND NOT USABLE. Don't know how the marinas on the lake are handling this 700 ft level? Perhaps PROVE HAS INFORMATION?
Still, given all this, can't help but thinking (now I said thinking) about launching out of Pumpkin Creek and fishing for (what ever?). BEEN IN THE HOUSE "WAY TO LONG".
Be Safe and Good Fishing,
Gary
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all this doom & gloom, it is what it is, the dam has to be fixed, the fish will adapted and so will we, I think cabin fever got me rearin to go, and I can't go for rearin lol JMO
Gary
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this used to happen every year, the lake would go down to 680 or 685 or so and spring would com and the lake would get up in the trees, and summer pool is 724 I think, so up and down is not new, holding at 680 is JMO
Gary
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Summer pool is 723 and yea it gets flooded every spring, no doubt, been fishing Cumberland for many years. Here's the issue. They, THE CORP freak completely out eveytime the lake spikes now, and some with good reason. In the past with no Dam issues they would draw the lake sometime aggressively but not over the top usually. Now when it floods they open up everything they can within reason not to flood downstream but close to it get the water back down. This means opening the sluice gates and dumping all the very cold heavily oygenated water OUT of the lake. This has and WILL continue to hurt the fishery as the Stripes an Eyes can not take the stress and die. The sluice gates are on the bottom, dumping the good cool good O2 water out.
Guys don't down play this it's not the sky is falling scenario yet but it's alot more serious then some of you are making it sound. Research it and see if I'm not right??
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Re: Lake Cumberland back to 700
Think I know what you mean. Just how bad is the CABIN FEAVER?
LOL,
Gary
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It's bad. Trust me!
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