Nolin drawdown????

[pontooner]

Had a guy tell me Tues of last week that they were going to start the drawdown on the 15th, so I checked the outflow at the USGS site and sure enough they had started letting out some water on the 15th but that only lasted for 2 days and it's now cut back down to the level before they started letting anymore out.

Did they start the drawdown and stop it for some reason or were they just getting rid of some of the extra water in the lake?

[fishinfreak]

october 15th

[CTFSHWHISKER]

they do a slow draw,will pull 2- 3 feet from sept. 15th to october 15,then they pull the cork.nolin and rough both.

[fishinfreak]

they do a slow draw,will pull 2- 3 feet from sept. 15th to october 15,then they pull the cork.nolin and rough both.

that day can't come soon enough

[pontooner]

they do a slow draw,will pull 2- 3 feet from sept. 15th to october 15,then they pull the cork.nolin and rough both.

Thanks, I knew that was how they done it just wasn't sure about the dates. Still wonder why they started letting some more water out on the day they were supposed to (15th) and then cut it back down a few days later with the lake still being right at summer pool.


I was hoping they would keep the outflow going because fishing at the tailwaters has been tough with the low flow and the water temps. Looking at the USGS site the day they opened it up it dropped the water temp from around 71 to 67 quick and that had to be a goog thing because I was up there in the am the weekend before the 15th and the heat coming off the water between the walls was crazy hot. It reminded me of how it feels when you walk out the door of you air conditioned house into the dead heat outside.

[dc chopper]

My sister has a house down there and my brother in law grew up down there , he said they drop it a few feet real quick, then shut if off for 2 weeks, said that gives boat owners 2 weeks warning to get their boat out and finish any thing that needs to be done by the water. Dont know if thats true but they do it every year like this.

[SKIPJACK]

Ok,so my buddy and I reserved a cabin for the last week in Oct. Will we still be able to fish?

[Big T @ E.C.]

You should be o-k, most of the time, it is after thanks giving before it gets to winter pool. That time of the year, fish the mouths of creeks, and coves with alot of rock on them, use either craws, tubes, or brush hogs, also use the wind, fish the bank it is blowing on.... Tr

[SKIPJACK]

Thanks, Big T

[alycat]

I've got a tournament there the 24 and 25 of October. So I hope it's not too low by then. We're going out at Wax. So maybe the fish really be turned on by then too.

[Big T @ E.C.]

I live about 3 miles from the dam, if you or "skipjack" want, hollar at me here, and if i've not fished any, i'll run down and check, see about how low it is, and how much they are pulling it. It's really just going to depend on how much rain we get. I've got a night tourn the next 2 fri. Nights at wax, but that won't help you all that much. I do know last fri. The water temp was 72... Tr

[Ranger492]

Guys, the lake doesn't drop to a point that makes it unfishable even in the dead of Winter. Typical schedule is that they drop it approx 2 feet below Summer pool from 9/15-10/15. Then, on 10/15, they start pulling quite a bit more water, but it still takes nearly a month and a half for it drop the remaining 23 feet to Winter pool (usually it falls around 6 inches a day). As Big T said, it is usually Thanksgiving before it's all the way down that far. If you look at the chart on corps site at the following link: http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/wc/res...plots/nrr.html
you will see the Green line is the target pool elevation and the Black line is actualhe target line doesn't hit 490 winter pool until Dec 1st. Last year, the actual at Dec 1 was several feet above target and actually stayed a couple feet above it throughout the entire winter. Point is, there will be plenty of water to fish through October and into early Nov (and still fishable after that, you just have more limited launch options). On Nov 1, the target is approximately 507 or so according to the graph, which is only 8 feet below Summer pool. When they pull harder starting on 10/15, the crawfish really start moving and the orange belly crankbait bite gets really good. Good luck