Reelfoot lake level

[cmcduck]

I have heard reelfoot is a foot low. Are they working on the spillway or is it just down? Think it will be up by the fall?

[Bails]

I bet it's lower than that....no rain...They are working on the spillway, but it's more weather related than anything else...gonna need some soakers in the next 6 weeks to bring her back up....gonna head down in mid-late sept to fish with Cracker68...Then, prob back in Oct, Nov and Dec.

[Bails]

Just talked to Robert at Southshore....he said they are not even renting out boats right now....not only is the lake to dangerous, the boats are sitting in mud under the docks!

[cmcduck]

Thanks for the info guys, I fishin the Crappie masters in oct. and was wondering what was up with it.

[Cracker68]

Guy I work with said he is losing 4" of water in pool a week. We did the math and estimated that Reelfoot at the same rate as his pool would evaorate 108,000 gallons of water each acre each week.

Dang lot of water.

I'm going to drive up there and take some pics today.

[Cracker68]

Here are some pic I took last year 10-28-2006 and the ones I took
today 08-11-2007

You can tell alot difference in the water level.

Also one of the pictures is from a bar ditch drying up, it was full of dead
catfish and carp. There where a lot still swimming around but the water is shallow. This is where I would guess the fish die off at Reelfoot came from, because there where hundreds of deed fish. Didn't see any dead fish on the Foot.

[DTG]

what did that use to be a dock between the two trees

[Cracker68]

That picture is at Keystone boat ramp

[crappietime]

Well my father in law is good friends with the Creel Clerk there and said he is having to run his creel checks with a Go Devil motor on a boat.He is telling us that he aint seen it that shallow in a long time.

[Cracker68]

A friend went yesterday and said he had to be pulled off stumps 5 times and used his anchor winch once said he had to swim over to a stump to tie on.

He said he has never seen so many stumps.