Terry Beeson Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 I think Leonard wore out the bank walking around the outlet so much... TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted February 11, 2008 Author Root Admin Posted February 11, 2008 They shut off #3 to construct the new hatchery addition.
Terry Beeson Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 I think Leonard wore out the bank walking around the outlet so much... TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil
Danoinark Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 I think Leonard wore out the bank walking around the outlet so much... Whoa!!!!! Glass Has Class "from the laid back lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"
Greg Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 They shut off #3 to construct the new hatchery addition. Makes sense. Thanks. Greg "My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it" - Koos Brandt Greg Mitchell
Trav Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 There has been reports that mining in west virginia as produced sediment shifts as far away as ten miles from the mine site. Not saying this is the case here. Just saying it is a plausible. More than likely it is simply erosion from under the banks itself. Wich happens to be very close to the dam cunstruction. "May success follow your every cast." - Trav P. Johnson
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted February 11, 2008 Author Root Admin Posted February 11, 2008 Never heard of that... I guess it may be plausible. Hard to imagine though.
denjac Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 I think the picture is worth a thousand words. From the looks of the new channel it looks around 10 dump truck loads of gravel washed out. Dennis Boothe Joplin Mo. For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." ~ Winston Churchill ~
Dave Cook Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 It's pretty obvious to me that the gravel in question is from erosion from outlet #1. The question is why is it eroding so badly lately. My theory is those folks who like to build a “chute” out into the lake took all the stabilizing rocks from the banks higher up in the outlet. With no rocks or vegetation there, it was just a mater of time. With the majority of the outlet fishing being from that one side, the boot traffic finally broke down the cohesion that was there. And I really like the theory someone mentioned that outlet #3 being shut down during construction may have increased the flow out of outlet #1 to create the tipping point of the collapse of the gravel bar. Dave Cook Missouri Trout Fishermen's Association - Kansas City
Leonard Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 Granted outlet 1 has withstood the test of time and 100's of 1000's fishermen walking all over it. Standing on the banks, walking in and out, moving rocks. I mean it could come right down to the most simplest things. Like someone looking under a rock to check for bugs (scuds, sowbugs, nymphs) and didnt put the rock back in the proper place. High water soften the gravel, increased flow. The gravel starts to wash out. Someone walks through there a little more gravel gives away. Well then the process has started.. Next ... someone walks through the outlet and trips/stumbles over a rock jaring it a little bit. then you have change in flow. I really think it was the cause of the increased flow, high water (that soften the gravel),someone step on a soft spot some gravel, a rock that changed the flow, put all that together and the wash out has began. I noticed this back in early spring, I said something about this at a TU meeting and I guess at the time it was not nothing to really worry about. But it did get alot worse. At the time the wash out was just barely moving the gravel (just a small little area), well by early summer it was getting bigger and deeper. http://www.taneycomonights.com
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