Highest water level in the chain in over 20-25 years? I mean WAY up. Like to the point of another 8-12 inches will mean flooded roads and lakefront yards. You can actually travel all the way from Louisa up into Cherry lake now.......so much water now ...... Way to much cover for the fish though. The fish can almost work their way back into the adjacent trees and swamps......and I mean way back into the trees.

A lot of hearsay as too why the water came about / returned, ranging from a Polk county farmer blockage cleared to the gates opened into the green swamp, to just rain runoff.

Either way we are now darn close to swamped with all the adjacent dried up swamp areas now being 3-5 feet deep themselves.

Talk about a complete reversal of a year or two ago. Amazing.

Doesn't setup well now for fishing ( though it has its days) but once the water starts to drop a bit? Game on!

The chain is as pretty as it gets for boat rides but also loaded with pleasure boats and watercraft yahoos right now and it's share of BLI's.

Sure enought they should be starting to get chased off the lakes the closer we get to cooler temps.

I'm pretty happy for now, but will really get excited once it drops a bit.

At 6am with the morning light just starting to crest the treetops...... It still takes my breath away.

I do love my hometown chain, always very relaxing.