River Levels.

[taxidermist]

11.3 feet at Calico Rock (flood stage – 19 feet)

11.6 feet at Batesville (flood stage – 15 feet)

22.5 feet at Newport (flood stage – 26 feet)

32 feet at Augusta (flood stage – 26 feet)

20.7 feet at Georgetown (flood stage – 21 feet)

26.4 feet at Clarendon (flood stage – 26 feet)

Listening to a Mt Home radio Station the past week the Corp has been running 6-7 units all day long. and as you can see todays river levels below Newport are at or above flood stage. Even at the level in Batesville I know from living just three miles down river that the bottoms are flooded and water is backed up into Rutherford Creek covering a large portion of the fields.

When we crossed BSD last week the water was pretty high within about 10 feet of the flood gates (estimate)

At Augusta there will be several state Hwys closed due to water over them.

Reports from on down river that Cache, Lil Angulie, St Francis are also flooded.

With the idea that the White River chain of dams are flood control dams. I think things have fouled up and they are strickly operatiing for the SWPA money at this point.

http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/?m=flood&w=map&r=us

As you can see lower Louisianna is above flood stage along the Mississippi, Hell who knows.

[cotterboy2007]

glad to see you back. I know you caught alot of crap over that last deal, but I enjoy your fishing reports.

Anyway, I worked at Bull Shoals Dam one summer while I was off from college. This has been about ten years ago, but the general consensus was that Bull Shoals was made large enough to hold most all of the flood water on the entire chain of lakes. I have a feeling we will see many days of low water coming shortly based on the downstream water levels.

I have been wondering when the high water was going to end myself. I have a friend who lives in Batesville and he says it is getting about as high as it can down there without being a major problem. I have not seen the dam, but once it is over the flood gates, there is no more control, so maybe the corp is trying to control the water while they can. They may be scared that one or two more good rains could really cause some flooding they can't regulate.

On the other hand, I love having high water in the lake though. In the high water we had four or five years ago, I had some excellent fishing days up in the covered brush. Also, spearfishing while scuba diving that summer was out of this world. We killed numerous walleyes between 4 and 10 pounds up in the shallow brush. If I posted the pictures of those stringers we shot in the high water, the bunny huggers would probably try to have me romoved from the site.

[Mikey]

I appreciate the optimistic outlook, cotterboy. With my trip planned for next week, hopefully someone at the power station will sit on the off switch for a few days. A man can only fish from the bank at the spring for so long until his bottom gets sore from rockbooty.

I hope it's good fishing..I promised my wife she'll catch her first trout on this trip. If she gets skunked it may be difficult to get another pass to make the 4 hour trip to go!

Mikey

[Phil Lilley]

BS level is at 660, 6 ft over power pool. The top of the flood gates is 695. We're 35 short of the top.

[Clay Goforth]

BS level is at 660, 6 ft over power pool. The top of the flood gates is 695. We're 35 short of the top.

Sometimes I think the BS level is much higher on the forum

[cotterboy2007]

So true Clay

Mikey, I feel ya. I always fish from a boat, but generally there is someplace you can get out of the high water. The way it has been the last few weeks, you may have rough go finding that spot. If so, take the wife out to dinner at Gaston's or the 178 Club in Bull Shoals, and stay at nice place with a hot tub or something. Oh, and tell her how glad you are to spend quality time with her. Aversion to problem is the key. My wife is pregnant right now, so believe me that I have been studying these type of techniques alot lately. good luck