Barren River Drawdown?

[DMurphy]

Does anyone know what the date is there going to start bringing the lake down to winter pool? With the lake already being down this year from the drought I have to make sure I get my time in when the lake starts dropping. Can beat the fall for fishing bass and the hybrids. Thanks

[Grumpy]

I was curious about the same thing. I called the Barren COE office and was told that they will not start lowering the lake level until the lake level is at where it should be for the time it should be at that level (my words).

In other words, they normally drop it two feet from Sept 15 (552 normal) to Oct 15 (550 normal) and then start start a faster draw down until it gets to Winter Pool of 525 on Dec 1st; however, since it is now at 547.8 they will not start drawing down from there until around the end of October. They want to keep on track to arrive at Winter Pool around December 1st. So, they really won't start a draw down until around the end of October.

I hope this is as clear as the water is.

Grumpy

[DMurphy]

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I'm ready to go