6/27

[Luke918]

You can put in at K-Dock off the lower road... the small hill going down at the split to the lower road now makes for a good ramp.

[Sam]

I think the dip where the lower road to the K Dock ramp now goes into the water makes a better ramp than the regular one! There's room to park quite a few rigs, too.

Soon as I launch I bear left and follow the cove out to the lake rather than stay on top of the submerged road. No problems.

[Forsythian]

Soon you'll have to back down from the old campground, but the pitch in the road stays pretty good right up to 695'

Looks like the Corps in all of their wisdom will keep filling the lake until it's panic time again.

[Sam]

Bull Shoals is at 690' as of last night's news, with more high water coming down the rivers, into Tablerock and Taneycomo, and eventually into Bull Shoals. Does anybody here know how high they can let it go? I'd say the lake is getting pretty close to full capacity - Forsythian, you mentioned 695'?

I know the new "normal" level is supposed to be 6 or 7 feet higher than it was, but I've always figured "normal" for Bull Shoals to be 653". So at 690', it's 37 FEET above the "normal" level at which I know the lake best. Fish like cover, and can you imagine all the insects that were on all that newly-flooded land? Heavy cover and lots of food - the fish (crappie anyway) are out in the woods, likely to stay there for the rest of season, and I've never had much luck casting into 30' tall, fully leaved-out oak and hickory trees!

[terryjones]

they're expecting it to crest Monday at 693