Flood gates

[Phil Lilley]

Saw on Facebook The they’re increasing flow and opening flood gates. 21,000 cfs. Wonder why now?

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ZWjtcY1ab/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Dang!  I wish I was down there.

[netboy]

They were running around 19,500cfs this morning with all 8 generators running, so it looks like maybe one spill gate.

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1 minute ago, netboy said:

They have been running around 19,500 cfs the last few days with all 8 generators running, so it looks like 1 maybe spill gate.

Are you going to fish it when they open up?

[Quillback]

Happy to see them moving water out of the lakes, but not sure how they are getting around the Newport gauge limits.  

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11 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Happy to see them moving water out of the lakes, but not sure how they are getting around the Newport gauge limits.  

I heard they were already flooded down there so it doesn’t matter.  That’s Just what I heard 

[netboy]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Are you going to fish it when they open up?

Of course, I fish most every day, but it doesn't look like it will be much different from what it has been.  They added another 2k cfs at 1pm. It went from 19,236 to 21,286 so I wouldn't expect much of a shad kill.

 

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14 minutes ago, netboy said:

I wouldn't expect much of a shad kill.

 

I think it’s a crap shoot this time of year when then run em.   If you happen to be there when they happen to come over or just recently came over, it can be really good.  

[netboy]

Just saw this pic on Facebook. Four gates open with 2,036cfs. Interesting that there is a boat up there clearly in the restricted area below the dam 😡

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I see boats up there all the time.   Last year a guide was yelling at some guys that were way up there.  He threatened to call the agent but they ignored him.   I was there a couple more hours and nobody ever came up.