Bolivar Landing

[ric lee]

Planning a trip this weekend.  Usually put in at Bolivar Landing but was wondering what the conditions were like there.  May change my mind if already bad and more rain to come.  Thanks

[MOPanfisher]

I would guess the muddy water is somewhere between Bolivar and Hwy 83 marina.  Was across Nemo Bridge today and it is fine still, drove down toward Lightfoot/hwy 83 marina and didn't see any dirty water.  However there are several factors that affect how far and fast the dirty water moves.  Releases from the lake, which is fairly high right now at 2500 CFS, inflow, which has dropped way off, additional rainfall, predicting up to inches or more in the drainage basin but will depend on where the heavy rains moves through at.  In th event of hey rainfall the outflow will be drastically cut back to avoid making the flooding on the river below worse, until the rains and river levels stabilize then be increased again to evacuate the flood water stored in he lake.  Throw in a cold front with the predicted rain.  I hate to see the lake jump like that during the spawn but it is performing exactly as it is supposed to, so we all just have to work with the facts as they are.

[ric lee]

Thank you for your post.  With the latest forecast fishing this weekend looks bleak.

[shockley32]

Thanks for the update.  The weather man predicted from 3-7 inches of rain through the weekend!  We should never complain about the moisture but wow!!!  Coupled with what we got last week there could be some interesting days ahead for Pomme.  Just hope we don't see another spring with 15-20' high water.

Brad

[MOPanfisher]

That would suck but all those little crappie in Pomme right now are the 2015 year class so as they say for every cloud there is a silver lining.

[Tbt51]

On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2017 at 5:06 PM, MOPanfisher said:

I would guess the muddy water is somewhere between Bolivar and Hwy 83 marina.  Was across Nemo Bridge today and it is fine still, drove down toward Lightfoot/hwy 83 marina and didn't see any dirty water.  However there are several factors that affect how far and fast the dirty water moves.  Releases from the lake, which is fairly high right now at 2500 CFS, inflow, which has dropped way off, additional rainfall, predicting up to inches or more in the drainage basin but will depend on where the heavy rains moves through at.  In th event of hey rainfall the outflow will be drastically cut back to avoid making the flooding on the river below worse, until the rains and river levels stabilize then be increased again to evacuate the flood water stored in he lake.  Throw in a cold front with the predicted rain.  I hate to see the lake jump like that during the spawn but it is performing exactly as it is supposed to, so we all just have to work with the facts as they are.

Any projected discharge for tomorrow?  Or do you think you will you be shutting it off?

[MOPanfisher]

Looks like we are still releasing heavy right now, if we get heavy local rains we will have to cut back to prevent flooding on the river below, and let the lake do its job.  If local rains don't happen I would expect a precautionary partial reduction in case the big rains come in the middle of the night. Every hour we can run hard before a big inflow helps.