Thread: Blue Mountain Lake not to bad

Originally Posted by brosborough

I was up there last night and the night before. I put in at Hise Hill, didn't have anywhere near the success that Crappie Greg had. My luck was crappy!! Just can't seem to figure them out on this lake for the life of me. I went up river from Hise Hill launch, down river the next day. Sat in about 15' of water, hit every tree and limb hanging in the water. What fish I did catch were just very small.

Anyway, while I was up there I went by Waveland park and saw the flyer they have out for this. I guess they have not dropped this lake since 1988? It was supposed to be dropped in 2008 but the drain was canceled. They are dropping it now I believe it said July 1st. Then there will be another drop after that it looked like. Only places you can launch according to that flyer were Ashley Creek and Hise Hill. Then November 1st they will start to bring the lake back up again. They don't anticipate it being done until December 1st. Rain fall can change some of this.

Said they will be "seeding the bank"? I'm not sure what that means. NO FISH KILL! Again, not sure why they would drain the lake to kill off the fish? Guess there are things that go on with lakes like this I never knew about. Almost sounded like what they are doing should improve fishing here. I don't know. As much water as they are pulling out this entire lake might turn into nothing but wade fishing! I can't imagine there being any water in this thing. I can't even see Hise Hill being usable. I would think the river would be dried up as well but maybe not.

If it does drop that much, maybe I can take a dip net and finally catch fish on this lake! Everything will be stuck in the little pool that was left and we can scoop up our 15 crappie and go!

Sometimes they have a partial fish kill to thin rough fish on drawdowns. Lowering the water pushes predator and prey togather which helps remove small fish and helps big fish grow. Planting bottoms helps release nutrients and clears the water up. The drawdown on Nimrod helped . Is'nt the limit 20 on Crappie? I know there is a 9'' length limit there. This was suppose to be a partial drawdown like Nimrod was last I heard.

Originally Posted by brosborough

I was up there last night and the night before. I put in at Hise Hill, didn't have anywhere near the success that Crappie Greg had. My luck was crappy!! Just can't seem to figure them out on this lake for the life of me. I went up river from Hise Hill launch, down river the next day. Sat in about 15' of water, hit every tree and limb hanging in the water. What fish I did catch were just very small.

Anyway, while I was up there I went by Waveland park and saw the flyer they have out for this. I guess they have not dropped this lake since 1988? It was supposed to be dropped in 2008 but the drain was canceled. They are dropping it now I believe it said July 1st. Then there will be another drop after that it looked like. Only places you can launch according to that flyer were Ashley Creek and Hise Hill. Then November 1st they will start to bring the lake back up again. They don't anticipate it being done until December 1st. Rain fall can change some of this.

Said they will be "seeding the bank"? I'm not sure what that means. NO FISH KILL! Again, not sure why they would drain the lake to kill off the fish? Guess there are things that go on with lakes like this I never knew about. Almost sounded like what they are doing should improve fishing here. I don't know. As much water as they are pulling out this entire lake might turn into nothing but wade fishing! I can't imagine there being any water in this thing. I can't even see Hise Hill being usable. I would think the river would be dried up as well but maybe not.

If it does drop that much, maybe I can take a dip net and finally catch fish on this lake! Everything will be stuck in the little pool that was left and we can scoop up our 15 crappie and go!

It's a good lake don't get too down man. I know of plenty of folks that rip the crappie up there especially in the Spring of the year, it's tough now no matter where you are usually and it's a deeper brush thing. If a guy knew just how low the lake was going to get he might stage some brushpiles out there during draw down.