Some Fall / Winter Draw Down Photos

[DockShootinJack]

From Chickamauga Lake

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[CrappiePappy]

I've been to Douglas Lake when the water hasn't fully gone from Winter Pool to Summer Pool .... and was told that most people fished the shoreline for Crappie in the Spring, and when I was there that "shoreline" was probably 15ft above my head as I sat in the boat.

I checked and the Summer Pool elev. is 990 -- Winter Pool elev. is 955* (*estimated)

When I looked on Google Maps at the lake .... people's boat docks were high & dry (by a LONG way )

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[BobC]

Wow! Those first photos are pretty impressive. Are the drawdowns usually that extensive?
Bob

[DockShootinJack]

Around 6 feet between summer and winter pools. Draw down was early this year at the last week of October. They will raise back to summer pool sometime in March, but I have seen it later than that. Some years right in the middle of crappie spawn

[ChoogieChunker]

That looks low! How deep is the channel now?

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Purty big drawdown...thanks for sharing

[DockShootinJack]

In that area bout 6 or 7 feet. In the main river probably 70 or 80 feet in places