Holiday Island Marina Debris

[Ken Drish]

Looking for some historical perspective on the HI Marina. Has there ever been this much debris? Does the Holiday Island village/city do something about it or do they just wait until it sinks/floats away? I talked to the folks at the marina and they claim people at the HI office told them it would float back out. I think they're nuts. There are entire trees in the water!

[dtrs5kprs]

Looking for some historical perspective on the HI Marina. Has there ever been this much debris? Does the Holiday Island village/city do something about it or do they just wait until it sinks/floats away? I talked to the folks at the marina and they claim people at the HI office told them it would float back out. I think they're nuts. There are entire trees in the water!

There are whole trees in the water with every rise. Ask anyone who has lost a lower unit to a floater.

This is a pretty small rise, and COE started pulling the lake right away. There will be some that have to pushed out of the way, but it is completely normal. Wind direction and topography more or less determine where it all collects.

[rps]

In the 13 years since I moved to HI, the debris has never been as bad as it is now. The flush from the runoff combined with the steady North wind pushed everything from Leatherwood and much from the upper White into the marina pocket. Even if we get a week of south wind the land will block and the marina itself will block it. It will sit there until removed.

I posted pictures in an earlier thread.

[Quillback]

The cuts and pockets in the bluffs on the Kings are stuffed with wood, layers deep. Some of the banks have a bunch of wood on them on the lower Kings. I imagine some of it is out there floating around now.

[Browning Guy]

Having a dock on TR I can tell you just when you think there is no hope, mother nature and the Corps of Engineers may eventually help remedy some of the problem. During 2011 we had close to a 1/3 of a mile by 100 ft of debris, massive logs, limbs, leaves, trash, etc. that had floated into the upriver side of the dock. My initial reaction was pure panic. When the corp opened the gates and mother nature changed the wind direction a massive amount of debris left the bank pulled to main channel and went down stream. A number of factors will determine the outcome as HI is a fairly deep and narrow pocket filled with a large dock. This won't help the situation. 2011 was one of the best years I've ever had fishing Tablerock and I've spent many days on the lake (since 1974). Some of the craziest patterns emerged from 2011 that you can ever imagine. My hopes are that they won't drop the lake out from under the bedding fish next month. We are reaping the rewards of the last two floods in numbers of fish right now. I would suggest staying out of the upper white, kings and James for a couple weeks as the debris coming downstream naturally is one thing, but as more and more weekenders who own cabins and homes on the lake get to the lake for spring...... they will begin the ritual of pushing debris from their docks and lake front. There will be an ample supply of debris to dodge . From the lower mid lake area down I don't generally notice seeing a lot of stuff floating when the floods hit.

[dtrs5kprs]

Hmmm...I think I might know this Browning gentleman.