Could anyone tell me if it is wadable? Thanks
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Could anyone tell me if it is wadable? Thanks
not yet unless you just move a few feet from the bank until they turn off the last genarator. dave
Where are you talking about? Below the dam?
yes and thanks Dave
went sunday evening and they were running two gens. then about 7 p.m. they shut one off. went to the wall at the dam and tossed every thing at them but hadf to use nightcrawlers to catch anything. 3 stripers,5 drum, 6 trout, and 5 walleyes. no size to any of them.
How far can you go down river( safely) from the dam? I will be in a 18 foot bass boat.
Watch for bodies :/
[QUOTE=dug1976;460064]How far can you go down river( safely) from the dam? I will be in a 18 foot bass boat.[/QUOTE]
Channel on left side of river downstream will let you go I'd say maybe 3 miles. Even at a lower flow. Look for big rock on left after that your heading for a gravel bar. Don't run er' wide open and you should be fine. just stay closer to left down stream side for channel.
18ft bass boat. I don't know how good of a idea that would be with the water being low!!! We will be in a Jon boat. Cause of the low flow and low water level.
In that boat, right now at 3,400 cfs discharge, not very far. Upstream from Helm Landing, there is Blackfish Creek, then the "chute", then a long gravel bar. If you are going downstream from the dam, this gravel bar should be your STOPPING/TURNAROUND POINT, unless you want to lose your lower unit. And even then, you need to know where the channel is. You really need a jon boat with a short shaft motor to fish the Cumberland, or better a tunnel hull with a jet motor.
Don't underestimate how quickly the current at 3,400 cfs can take control of your boat! Be safe and save the lower unit $$. :p
[QUOTE=FlyLie;460086]In that boat, right now at 3,400 cfs discharge, not very far. Upstream from Helm Landing, there is Blackfish Creek, then the "chute", then a long gravel bar. If you are going downstream from the dam, this gravel bar should be your STOPPING/TURNAROUND POINT, unless you want to lose your lower unit. And even then, you need to know where the channel is. You really need a jon boat with a short shaft motor to fish the Cumberland, or better a tunnel hull with a jet motor.
Don't underestimate how quickly the current at 3,400 cfs can take control of your boat! Be safe and save the lower unit $$. :p[/QUOTE]
From the dam don't think he'd make it through Indian creek. Big a#s rock at chute.
[QUOTE=FlyLie;460086]In that boat, right now at 3,400 cfs discharge, not very far. Upstream from Helm Landing, there is Blackfish Creek, then the "chute", then a long gravel bar. If you are going downstream from the dam, this gravel bar should be your STOPPING/TURNAROUND POINT, unless you want to lose your lower unit. And even then, you need to know where the channel is. You really need a jon boat with a short shaft motor to fish the Cumberland, or better a tunnel hull with a jet motor.
Don't underestimate how quickly the current at 3,400 cfs can take control of your boat! Be safe and save the lower unit $$. :p[/QUOTE]
Forgot to mention and most important, that gravel bar, as well as the rocks at the chute are just under the surface at 3,400 cfs;....bad news...:eek::eek: