We do seem to be getting the spring rains/high water much earlier this year. Usually it's Late March for the spring high water. Maybe will will get lucky and this rains will tapper off 1st of April.

Taylorsville flooded the first year is was built. They projected it would take about 18 months to fill the lake after the Dam was closed. That year we had significant flooding and the lake filled in about 6 weeks. Saved a lot of property along salt river from very severe flooding.

A freind of mine and I could not wait to get on the lake and check it out. We went to Settlers trace and the lake was flooded over the ramp and the road to the ramp was flooded so that it was just a dead end of water on the road.

This did not deter us! We just turned the truck around and used the road as a ramp. We rode down the road and into the lake. Of course there were no fish in there as the lake had only been filled for a week.

After a few hours on the lake the engine quit (we were poor then and the boat was about a 1951 model my freind had). We were the only ones on the lake and probably the first ones on the lake (other that ACE). We saw one of the old roads in the area that was still in place and rowed over to the road. We tied the boat to a guardrail on the road and hitch hiked back to the truck

Being tired and it being late we decided to just go home and come back and get the boat the next day. When we came back for the boat the next day we found the lake had dropped at least 10 feet or so and the boat was sitting in the middle of the road tied to that guardrail. We had a time picking that boat up and putting it on the trailer.

Laugh a lot about it now, but we were sure cussin that day.