10 July Upper End Report

[merc1997 Bo]

If everything would have got in the boat it would have been substantially better but still slow. We lost several topwater fish. I fished a lot of water I've never messed with. Just stuff I found idling. The cool part is I found some foundations and brush piles. I just spent to much time messing around and not enough time fishing confidence areas.

Today I noticed something kinda odd. Most places I went there was a backward current. I thought it was eddying at first but the places didn't seem like the right locations for it. It was very strong also. Maybe it was just eddying after all.

the backward current happens when the shut the water off. you have all that water hit the dam, and then it back up creating the backward current. so, if you happened to have anything figured out with the down stream current, you have to start all over when the current begins to move upstream.

bo

[5bites]

Ah ha! I mentioned that idea to my bosses this morning. Basically it's rebounding. I imagine that doesn't help much. It was a pretty strong current. Enough that it was slick calm but the current was carrying my boat with it and you could see it on the trees. This was in the owl creek area on main lake.

[5bites]

I assume if beaver stops letting out into table rock it would also cause the same affect correct? The reason I ask is they stopped generating for a while Sunday morning.

[5bites]

One more post and I'm through lol. Another thing I saw was up in roaring river a couple bends the wood was so thick you could walk on it. I'm guessing the rebounding water stacked it back up instead of it floating out like it normally would.

[merc1997 Bo]

correct on both questions. current on the upper end has always been hard for me to fish and be successful. down on the lower end, it seems to get the bass active. up here, i find them to mostly suspend. when i am fishing the upper end, and current is running, i most often get off the main drag and stick to the coves.

bo

[5bites]

Wow that's very strange. I hope to get this end of the lake figured out someday. It's just different from the rest of Table Rock. To me anyway. It's probably time I relented and got more serious with finesse fishing. Under normal conditions the rivers are good to me but I know there is some good mainlake deep fishing that I'm missing out on.

[Champ188]

I question the theory of backward current 40 miles or so from the dam. This is a very slow-moving current to begin with, so I don't see how it can "bounce back" 40 miles.

[Longball22]

Champ, I was thinking the same thing. The only think I can think is that will all of the tributaries flowing and the dam cut off, it would push some water back up the river arms.

[5bites]

I question the theory of backward current 40 miles or so from the dam. This is a very slow-moving current to begin with, so I don't see how it can "bounce back" 40 miles.

Don't think of it as bounce back from the dam itself. The entire lake was moving forward including the water around eagle rock. Then then when they stop pulling the water stacks up and can only go backward after losing so much forward momentum. Add to this that Beaver stopped dumping in so it lost the water pushing in from up river. All the forward momentum stopping is going to have to have a reaction. It wouldn't just stop and be still. This is just my theory though.

I saw it flowing backward by owl creek, up river from eagle rock, and more than a mile in roaring river which explains the wood stacked up. Friday when Randy and I was fishing the current was going the right direction and strong.

[5bites]

When I was talking to my bosses about this he told me about when he saw it flowing backward past holiday island by beaver town one time. The only explanation we could determine was beaver quit dumping and the water rebounded. If you think of it kinda like a wave it makes more sense. The water is higher obviously up river when beaver dumps. The whole lake doesn't raise equally.