great news lake cumberland

[High Bridge Hooker]

Good news lake will be raised to 700' to 705' this spring. They are running ahead of schedule.

[slabeye]

and tell me how that is great news?????????? there will be so many trees in the water that you will not be able to fish........ it will be 4 years or more before fishing is even close to being as good as it is right now. i hope when they let it up it leaks and they have to bring it back down and leave it from now on. a striper is a salt water fish anyway

[panfish angler]

Great News, I am ready !!!!!!!!!

[CrappiePappy]

and tell me how that is great news?????????? there will be so many trees in the water that you will not be able to fish........ it will be 4 years or more before fishing is even close to being as good as it is right now. i hope when they let it up it leaks and they have to bring it back down and leave it from now on. a striper is a salt water fish anyway

what does a Striper have to do with anything ??

While there may be some trees that get floated by the raise in water levels, it won't be any worse than it used to be back when it would rise after a heavy rain event. And for that matter ... NOW is the time to go and tie down some of those trees !! Get them anchored BEFORE they get floated off to the dam.

Check these stats, and you'll see that the water level raise won't be much more than current level ... not to mention that it went to 725 in May 2011. Lake Cumberland Water Level

... cp

[slabeye]

crappiepappy did you fish in 2011 when the water was 725? well i had a tourney then and it was hard to fish. be fishing in 20 to 30 fow of water. and next thing you know every pole in the boat is hung. and about the striper that is the only thing i have heard people say the water being low is killing the striper. and you make it pretty clear that you dont fish cumberland because before you tie those trees down you will have to cut them. and if you look at the water level now it is up about 15 foot from 2 weeks ago. the next time you go fishing for the weekend look and see if the water is 700 and go to cumberland and you will see what i mean.


AND WHAT DOES FLOATING TREES HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING I SAID

[panfish angler]

All Part of fishing. As they say if you aint getting hung up your not fishing where the fish are at.

[chucky]

Hey CP, I believe you and slabeye are talking about two diff things. What he is talking about is all the new growth that has sprung up over the last few years. Around alot of the banks, in most bays, there has been quite a few trees that has grown pretty good since the water has been low. I also fished
the tourney he was talking about in 2011. When we started out that morning there were so many logs floating you couldn't even get your boat to go fast enough to plane out. But going around all of them was the easy part. When we started fishing, after it took almost an hour to get there, we were getting hung up everytime you turned around. And we didn't have any type of brushpile marked. But the df screen would all of sudden be covered. Once the sun got up good is when we noticed we were fishing in the tree tops. We were pulling green leaves up out of the water. Nobody did very good that day .

Right now with the way they have had the water levels low has been great for crappie fishing. Not good for the stripers thou. But you raise it 25-30 ft, its going to make it tough for awhile. Most spots that i have marked there is 15-25fow. When they raise it they will be in 35-50fow. Will have to find new ones.

[slabeye]

thanks chucky, i might not have been very clear in what i was trying to say.

and you are right chucky i have somewhere around 100 to 150 spot from one end of the lake to the other. and if the water comes up 20 foot about 80% of my spots will be 40 to 55 foot deep. and all my walleye spots too.

guess i will have to start fishing green more again and hitting dale hollow some.

[kycreek]

But won't more trees/brush help in the long run. You will lose your current spots but shouldn't the new growth provide even more in the future. Just asking, I do not fish Cumberland. Wrong side of the state for me. I'm stuck up on the Ohio river.

[kyjohn]

One thing's for sure boys ... The good old Army is going to raise the water level at Cumberland, and that's pretty much that. Might as well make the best of it. Like CP says: Now is the time to go tie down some of those trees. Might get some new brush out too.