Ky and Barkley Lakes are Not Closed!!!!!!!

UPDATE: Coast Guard allows vessel traffic on Kentucky, Barkley Lakes

PADUCAH, Ky. -- The U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port Ohio Valley has issued a safety advisory on the Tennessee River from mile markers 80 to 22, Saturday, which includes the Kentucky and Barkley Lakes as well as the Cumberland River from mile markers 80 to 32.

Due to extremely high water and minimum output from both the Kentucky and Barkley Lock and Dams, mariners are urged to use extreme caution while transiting in the vicinity of all marinas.

Mariners are advised to transit these areas at the slowest safe speed and to be vigilant of their wake, since it can cause severe damage to property along the river banks.

The potential hazardous conditions arising from the high water are anticipated to exist until May 6.

The Coast Guard is monitoring the river levels present on both the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers on a 24-hour basis. Currently, there are no restrictions to navigation on either lake as a result.

The Coast Guard is working with the Army Corps of Engineers and several states and local agencies to minimize damage to property, structures and to help save lives from historic flood levels.

For more information about the safety advisory, please contact Petty Officer Brian Sullivan, Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Paducah, at (270) 442-1621.

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me and a buddy went down to barkley friday and the people at holiday hills and eddy creek resort were telling everyone that it was. I guess it was there loss planned on camping there, but instead changed plans and tried out lake Malone instead. It was a slow bite two nice fish in a day and a half of fishing. Lake was dropping fast at about a foot in the 24 hours before we got there. I think if these resorts at Barkley don't won't to lose money they need to be better informed than they are because I probably won't stay at holiday hills anymore.

[QUOTE=98zr2;451798]me and a buddy went down to barkley friday and the people at holiday hills and eddy creek resort were telling everyone that it was. I guess it was there loss planned on camping there, but instead changed plans and tried out lake Malone instead. It was a slow bite two nice fish in a day and a half of fishing. Lake was dropping fast at about a foot in the 24 hours before we got there. I think if these resorts at Barkley don't won't to lose money they need to be better informed than they are because I probably won't stay at holiday hills anymore.[/QUOTE]

Our motel told us the same thing but went to cabin bait and they said didn't think so. And we been here since. But we did switch lakes to Ky lake. Barkley looks like a mud hole compared to Ky lake.

The rumor that the lake was closed was rampant down here on Friday. The NBAA tournament director told everyone in his tournament this and they went home along with a lot of folks told this crap.....it was being passed around in a store I was in Friday morning....by guess who...more NBAA guys that had been told this by their tournament director. Rumors cause a lot of damage..