What would you do to help Cumberland?

[rickhise]

The vegitation will happend on its own in a few short years, by 7 years, they will be contracting to have it cleaned up thats when groups like this can make the biggest difference.
Lets Hope the contractor's doing the work would get the truth out about whats going on? How long, and how involved it will be. Sorry my faith is so weak in the core.

Ky has reaped the rewards for there effort for the most part; but my instincts tell me were not getting anything close to the truth on this isssue.

maybe Katrina, or maybe the fact the Cumberland county is getting one of the highest tech 911 systems put together ever after years of begging?

[Basswipe]

I don't fish Cumberland, but from an outside view, it seems that the best and most simple thing folks could would be to build brush piles while the water is down.

KDFWR has projects on other lakes to where people volunteer to help build brush piles when the lakes are at winter pool. There is another thread going on the board about such a project happening at Barren in a few weeks.

I manage 500 acres in Western Hardin County. The property has a few thousand small cedar trees (5-8 feet tall) in various fields. KDFWR is coming this friday to take a load of them for building brush piles on Nolin and Rough. If anyone wants to take some of them for building brush piles on C'land, get in touch with me. You can have all of them that you're willing to cut and take.

[muzzy125acc]

i feel like cumberland does need more underwater structure. Now would be the time but it would be rotted by the time we get to fish them....LOL... Sounds like a great ideal

[CreatureBaitz]

It seems like every year Kentucky has a major tornado or two somewhere. I wonder if it would be possible to aquire some of the old building material debris and use it to build fish structure. A couple years ago a tornado hit Madisonville Ky. and wiped out an entire lumber yard. Truckload after truckload of lumber was hauled to a landfill and buried.

[jcb]

My spidey sense tells me that there would be some pretty serious resistance to using treated lumber.

[CreatureBaitz]

The environ-MENTAL-ists might not like it but the fish dont mind it one bit. We used five twenty foot trailer loads of it to build structure for a buddies private strip pit lake and the fish hold to it real good.

[peter]

Already in some areas on the shale you can see a green tint. Must me moss or something growing. No idea what it is but it is showing some different colors.

[crazyfishinnut]

I think the 2 best things we can do is encourage the COE to take the dam down as far as needed to fix it correctly..... without the ridicule
second set out habitat for this years spawn... not 20 foot deep brush but shallow fry digs..i helped spear the effort on barren a few weeks ago and it was a huge success. Nothing really needs to be done to the out of the water flats cause nature will take care of that. Also after a dam rebuild sometimes the water level is different than in past. just hang in there and be a part of the solution

[FlyLie]

It's been almost a year since anyone posted on this thread....should it not be taken down????

Gary