Water current question?

[LBM]

Yesterday I was fishing a 2800 hundred acre lake that was 14 ft high were they were releasing a little over 3700 cubic feet per second.

The fishing was slow and I was working standing timber in the back of a cove and thinking about where the fish might be positioning themselves on the structure if there was current.

My thoughts were that any current around the trees the crappie would be positioning themselves on the side of the tree closest to the dam thinking that would be the slack side if the crappie was wanting slack water to hold their positions.

While tied up to a tree eating lunch maybe halfway back up the cove one could see faint water ripples around the trees as though the water was flowing towards the back of the cove parallel to the shore line. This just didn't make sense to me and is probably insignificant but a lot of whys and wherefores come in to play as one tries to figure things out during slow fishing times. The water movement seemed to be moving in just the opposite direction.

I was kind of hoping that amongst this august group of Crappie com'ers that their might be a hydrologist or anyone else that might have an explanation for this observation.

Thanks for any comments or explanations.

[slipbobber]

Sounds like to me that there had been some heavy rains up river and more water was coming in than going out. I saw the same thing on Truman this year and the water came up about 18" that day. Later I checked with the Corps water flow chart and going from memory something like 130,000 CFS was incoming 45,000 CFS outflow, needless to say the fishing went south that day or somewhere else anyway!