Thread: Silt Gates ???

Okay, I've never heard of a "Silt Gate" so I though I'd through this out to the CDC folks on here to get the skinny on it. I've been fishing on Gibson off and on over the past couple weeks and the water clarity is just short of mud, and does not seem to be clearing up any in fact it seems to be getting worse, down to 3" to 4" visibility as of today. I was told by some folks that do live on Gibson that Grand has been discharging through their "Silt Gates" to clean out after all of the flooding that took place and that is why FG is running like mud. If that be the case then I guess Hudson would have to be experiencing the same fate.

Below is what I found after Googling the topic, so I guess they do exist!

"Water flows from the Xiaolangdi reservoir on the Yellow river during a silt-washing operation."

That's what OKC tried to do with the sand in Overholser quite a few years ago. Their new (at the time) manager said that opening the gates would sweep out the sand and deepen the lake. They should have had a water resources engineer (or someone with common sense) do a little thinking before they opened the gates (well above the level of the sand) and let out all of the fish. Not a grain of sand left the lake, but it did make my friend Lonnie VERY happy, as his noodling barrels were full of big flatheads all the time (this was before they made the barrels illegal).