If the water levels remain up thru the summer until after Labor Day here is how it will effect the fishing:

1. The buck brush will die out...it cannot stay in the water that long and survive. This is where the largemouth spawn...guess what will happen to the population of largemouth in the future.

2. The wind action will erode away the islands on south Ky Lake and on Lake Barkley. This will have a diverse effect on the waterfowl that winter over here...especially the ducks. That is why TFWR has fought this along with KDFW. Millions of dollars of taxpayer money has been spent to save these islands..now they want to destroy them so that they can run those big boats anywhere on the lake they want to for two more months a year.

This is not something I made up. This move to leave the water levels up is not something that anglers should be supporting...the long range effect on the fishing in NOT GOOD. This information was presented to the TVA by the KDFW and TFWR two years ago when the new ROS (river operating system) was being formulated..the only lakes in the TVA chain that remained unchanged were Ky/Barkley and the reason was because of the detrimental effect on the fish and wildlife. This move to leave the water levels up until after Labor Day is being backed by resort owners and big boat money folks. They were totally upset when it was decided the lakes would remain at present operating levels. Looks like Ed Whitfield in their pocket. Remember..it was these same folks that wanted all the grass killed years ago...and they got their wish...rememeber what happened to the fishing then.???

Clarification: Since all of us monitors received an "alert" message from accusing me of saying that Ed Whitfield is taking bribes I thought I would clarify my statement about him. By saying that he is "in their pocket" I meant that he is obviously on the side of the folks supporting that want the lake levels to be left up all summer. I made no statement what so ever about anyone taking bribes.