NOLIN LAKE

Has anyone been to Nolin Lake to know what the fishing and water conditions are?

I was down the week before last and they were pulling the lake to winter pool. It was about 6 feet below summer pool before the rain and it looked like it came up about a foot or so yesterday. I am heading down tomorrow night to try and catch a few more crappie. They were pretty tough last time I was down. We caught 15 keepers in 2 days of fishing and they were about 7-9 feet deep. Did have one that was 14 inches long though and caught alot of 8 and half inch fish. Hope this helps.

I recently got to fish Rough River Lake for the first time, and loved it.

So, I have taken a little more interest in the lake level of this body of water. Here's my quandry. I have a page bookmarked for lake levels that include Barren Nolin, GRL, and Rough River. According to this site, the lake is a little below summer pool. It's the same as it's been since I've started watching the level. So this evening, I clicked on the link to the lake's page. Then from there, I clicked on the link for the Temps, and the lake level. Here the lake level was 5 feet over summer pool, plus it showed it had fallen several feet, or at least that is what it looked like on the chart, in the last day. Now the chart is small letters, and my eyes aren't that good anymore....LOL

So which is the most likely to be correct? My gut says the lake's page link because of all the recent rain.

here's the link to the page I've been using:

[url]http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/wc/reports/lkreport.html[/url]

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Tight lines and God Bless

Danny

ok here's my understanding of it in the best way i can describe it. there is summer pool, winter pool, then there is different levels of pool stage for the fall draw down. kind of like a target of this many ft down by this date. now here is how i get it lol. i don't know what the pool levels are for each day and i'm sure that very few others do too. so, look at the column that says summer pool feet, then look at the column that says todays pool feet and subtract the 2. it's pretty much always been right by what i've seen. hope that helps.

So the column that says today's pool level is really a target, and not what the actual level is?? If that's it, then it is starting to make sense.

Guess I didn't go to school enough years to learn to read such an easy grid... LMAO

Thanks a lot!!


Tight lines and God Bless

Danny

Sorry Danny, you are still confused. The link you cited for the Corps of Engineer's lake level is correct and shows TODAY'S LEVEL. It is not a target level, it was the level when the reading was taken, which from what they told me is usually about 6 to 6:30 each morning.

What is confusing you is the reading you are getting on the LAKE TEMPERATURE page.

When you click on the site for each lake and then get the page that gives you a bar for LAKE TEMPERATURES. When that comes up you get the temps and there is a note on that page for POOL ELEVATION but that is the lake level ON THE DAY THE TEMPERATURES WERE TAKEN not today's pool. If you go back and look at Nolin, you will see the date the temps was taken on was 10/10/06 and the POOL EVELVATION for that date was 513.3. That won't change until they take another reading, so don't look at it.

Hope this helps,

Grumpy

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Anonymous

The lake has come up 2.6 feet in the last two days.

no danny in the today's pool level column is the actual water level for that day like grumpy said. what always gets me is where it says deviation from pool. like today it says it's 6.4ft above pool so that means its 6.4 ft above the target that they set for todays date. just subtract todays pool level from summer pool ft and that will tell you how far below summer pool it is.

>ok here's my understanding of it in the best way i can
>describe it. there is summer pool, winter pool, then there is
>different levels of pool stage for the fall draw down. kind
>of like a target of this many ft down by this date. now here
>is how i get it lol. i don't know what the pool levels are
>for each day and i'm sure that very few others do too. so,
>look at the column that says summer pool feet, then look at
>the column that says todays pool feet and subtract the 2.
>it's pretty much always been right by what i've seen. hope
>that helps.
go to louisvilledistrictdailylakereport.com
click on the fottage shown for today and it will pull up a chart. you can slide the chart at the bottom. it the green line is the scheudle and the black is where the water realy is. this is one year of chart to date. roll down to find days.


htt://www.lrl.usace.army.mill/wc/reports/lkreaport.html

Tight lines and God Bless

Danny