Reply With QuoteThanks for posting. A lot of discussion on OGF forum. Yes, to preserve our resources below the dam, the restricted fishing areas must be followed. IF not we will lose them. Good post and good info.
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Meldahl dam new restricted fishing area (PICTURE)
Hello folks just wanted to post this pic for everyone....... Straight from the corps of engineers...... Please spread the word. The corps pretty much guaranteed me that if these rules were not followed and fisherman continued to be a nuisance that they would take the area on the ohio side from the arrival point to the end of the long lock wall away also.......... If anyone sees folks trying to go into restricted areas please try and educated them. Prolly gonna make some fisherman mad (as some did last year with me) but I see it as preserving what we have left down there............ Honestly even when that slack water area was taken away on the ohio side I still caught lots of fish........ Thanks guys
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Thanks for posting. A lot of discussion on OGF forum. Yes, to preserve our resources below the dam, the restricted fishing areas must be followed. IF not we will lose them. Good post and good info.
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Why don't you stand up and fight the Corps like we did on the Cumberland here? They had the restriction buoys stacked up, ready to go in below Barkley Dam. We raised 10 kinds of crap, got our politicians involved (those who weren't subservient to DC), and let them know we would not go without a fight. They backed down. People need to decide what is important to them and be willing to fight those who want to take it away.
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You obviously aren't familiar with this at all. He and others around here have been fighting this battle for quite awhile.Originally Posted by mrdux
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Mrdux is correct. You have to get some polititions involved. Looks like more Big Government Bull. People need to be aware of the dangers around dams. I understand wanting a restricted area around the lock approaches. At Smithland dam, it is restricted 150' below Dam Spillway gates, because it will draw you back into them. I would not sit idle on this, Senator LaMar Alexander helped TN and KY with this same issue.
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That lower Bouy line looks to be about 1500' below dam. WHY? That seems to be about 1350' excessive.
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The difference in our situation and yours is that the corps was trying to CHANGE your situation to where you couldn't get close to the dams, as I recall you always were allowed to get right up to the locks on the cumberland........ We have NEVER been able to get close to ours and for good reasoning................. The Cumberland river is just a little different from the ohio...... but that's not the area that has changed...... Some idiot fisherman were chancing it and taking to long to move out of the way of the barges when they were TIED to the lock wall on the ohio side and had some close calls so that area they took away from us. Actually we never were allowed to be in there as stated on the huge sign on the end of the lock but they were just being nice to us fisherman and letting us in there but some pushed it so now it is what it is.......... Its no biggie to me. There are a lot of folks that wont come back because it was so easy to just tie up and fish directly under the boat. A lot of folks don't want to stay on trolling motor in that current. It can be a pain but it is what it is......
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Guys you have to realized (and don't be offended by me saying this) but this isn't the little Cumberland river. at about 1000' below the dam walls there is a back eddie. If your boat would happen to stall you are in fact a gonner!!!!!!!!! Don't get me wrong, all dams are dangerous, but ive personally seen what this dam can do (just about seen a few guys die, they had to jump out and make a swim and about didn't make it, boat was sucked in and never seen again)...... Nobody in there right mind would get close to our dams BUT, the reason they are soooooooooooo far out at the moment is the dam is under construction on the ky side to make a hydro dam......... From what I understand that buoy line will be moved closer to the dam after construction is finished but the buoys will be moved AT MOST about 500 ft closer to the dam..... That's about how far you USED TO BE ABLE to get before construction started............
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Try grasping that the back eddie will suck you in from about 900 ft at this dam. That why buoy line is so far out..... When I used to catfish there we would get right to the buoy line and throw anchor and the back of the boat would spin around and face towards the dam and we would throw our lines towards the dam and your lines would stay tight. Trust me im not one to sit at "idle" if there is a fight to be fought but the only time ive seem a boat go past the buoy line they about lost there lives. This dam is nothing to be played with. That buoy line isn't the issue everyone was worried about anyways it was the actual lock approach. That slack water area is about the only easy fishing there was because the current is normally to rough to fish even with 1oz jigs unless we had that slack water area. That is gone now though. Thanks to some knuckle heads.... The lock masters turned the other cheek for years on this issue because most respected the barges. Some didn't last year and it cost us the BEST area to fish there.
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Smithland is on the Ohio, just above Paducah.
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