Lake level is coming up fast!

[Phil Lilley]

App is working.  1125.63  5 am

[Phil Lilley]

Praise God.  Forecast has changed dramatically since last night.

[jeb]

Local forecasters were still saying 4-6 inches of rain on Saturday alone this morning.

We got just over 2 inches of rain in the gauge from yesterdays rain storm here in the PC area. High winds took out a yellow poplar in our yard.

 

[Blll]

Watched the FLW launch this morning. Water came up about a foot farther on shore from 5:30-6:30. Fishing dock ramp is under water. Beautiful calm morning, 41 degrees. They should do well today.

[JohnF52]

I think they should go ahead and open the flood gates a small amount now, and stabilize the level, hopefully drop it a little, before the predicted flooding this weekend.  Otherwise, we may see 1131 plus.   Most weather services are still predicting around 5 inches as of noon today. 

[Stein]

2 hours ago, JohnF52 said:

I think they should go ahead and open the flood gates a small amount now, and stabilize the level, hopefully drop it a little, before the predicted flooding this weekend.  Otherwise, we may see 1131 plus.   Most weather services are still predicting around 5 inches as of noon today. 

Why don't they do this in advance?  It's not really a shock that there is going to be a bunch of water dumped anyway.  At least it would be controlled.  That said it is easy for me to say that when they have many people that there entire job is focused around these water levels.  I assume they know what they are doing.

[Guest]

Let's say the lake was 5ft low & the fish spawned 5ft deep @ 1110ft. When the lake hits 1130ft next week those beds are 20ft deep. Do those fish stay down there & have successful spawn? 

[Guest]

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* A potent upper level storm system will move into the area
  Friday with strong to severe thunderstorms developing by early
  evening across portions of eastern Oklahoma and northwest
  Arkansas. Thunderstorms will continue Friday night through
  Saturday evening with locally heavy rainfall as a frontal
  boundary slowly pushes southeast. 4 to 8 inches of rainfall
  are expected across east-central Oklahoma and northwest
  Arkansas with locally higher amounts approaching 12 inches.

* The heavy rainfall will likely lead to widespread and
  potentially life threatening flash flooding. Several rivers
  will likely go into moderate to major flood including the
  Illinois river and Lee Creek at Van Buren. Beaver Lake dam in
  northwest Arkansas could begin to release water which would
  impact areas downstream.

[bferg]

Check out this picture from this article.  Sounds like the entire upper lake is unfishable and loaded with debris already.  Only gonna get worse.

https://www.flwfishing.com/news/2017-04-27-storylines-pros-jammed-up-by-debris

[Guest]

Yeah I saw that earlier. Looks like anything up from HC is wall to wall logjam.

im afraid we're looking at a flood for the ages this weekend. It's setup right to surpass 2008, 2011 & 2015. Usually these 200 year flood events are in groups of 3 floods but they're usually spread out across several weeks not several days. In some places you could see 20" of rain in 8 days