NOLIN

[21XRD300]

We were cutting grass at our camp Friday & Saturday. Here are a few pics from around the lake. The lake is about 2 feet higher today than these pics. A woman at the COE told me that it would top out at 452 on Wednesday. That's 8 feet from the spillway cut.

Wax Boatdock from the Hotel
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/UedK/flood-04.jpg

The Ramp at the Dam
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/UedK/flood-10.jpg

The Spillway cut at the dam. Water is about 12 feet from the cut.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/UedK/flood-12.jpg

Moutradier Boat Ramp
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/UedK/flood-39.jpg

[jfw]

wow is all i can say....thanks for posting those pics!

[coombro]

bad news fellas after the river started to drop thurs. night its on the rise again after saturdays rain.

[jfw]

Yep COOMBRO ,and now its raining again, and is supposed to rain Monday & Tuesday.

I bet the lake is not back to summer pool until June ,,,what do you think folks ??

[Ranger492]

Yep COOMBRO ,and now its raining again, and is supposed to rain Monday & Tuesday.

I bet the lake is not back to summer pool until June ,,,what do you think folks ??

Hey JFW, I think we'll be lucky if it is down by July 4th. 36 feet over right now and it will likely take AT LEAST 45 days since I can't ever recall them dropping it more than around 1.2 feet or so in a day. Not to mention that they will probably have to start slow with all the other flooding....all the lakes probably can't be turned loose at once. Gonna be a tough couple months of fishing with water dropping like that...I've always had a tough time with falling water.

I'd like to hear anyone's opinions/techniques for bass fishing in a prolonged period of falling water like we are going to likely see.

Thoughts?

[first2fish]

i think i would fish rock walls or fast dropping banks. the fish in that stay in these areas usually either move up or move down to feed or adjust to water conditions. i would start on top with a popper and use different baits to work my way father down the water column until i found the depth the fish are using.

[RICHYD4U]

i think i would fish rock walls or fast dropping banks. the fish in that stay in these areas usually either move up or move down to feed or adjust to water conditions. i would start on top with a popper and use different baits to work my way father down the water column until i found the depth the fish are using.

Exactly...with the water where it is, rock walls and deep banks are going to be the only water you can get a bait in front of a fish...impossible to get back into the trees on any other bank.

-Rich

[mhall]

Spawn is gone this year boys, we will feel this Spring for a long time. Bass are freaked completey out this year...............

I can never remember a year like this in my entire life, it's just plain nuts.