Thread: Grenada spillway?

You think it will pick up?

Hope not but it will at some point I am sure. 99% of the fish below the spillway come out of the lake and I hope each year the spillway fisherman have a bad year, selfish I know. On the other hand, after they come through the gates I really don't care how many or how you catch em cause they ain't going back in. Watch they gauges, I use this one to see the flow, they don't always update it daily but it really helps.
http://155.76.244.230/offices/ed/edh/docs/bullet.txt
1500 CFS and up is better, the more the better for that matter, also COLD weather. Some of my best days or nights down there the pole had ice forming in the eyes of it. As low as they have the lake now it would take some big rains for them to gap her open and if those big rains are during warmer weather then the fesh head upstream as its rising, if its during pretty cool weather in the 40s daytime, then they are more likely not to move much and be subject to the current when the gates are opened. This of course is my opinion but I have seen it time and time again over the years.
I was told by a very good crappie fisherman that once you learn how a crappie reacts to situation you will be a better fisherman and learn to think like a crappie.

Appreciate the info and chart. One question, why would you wish bad on spillway fishermen?

Originally Posted by greyf350

Appreciate the info and chart. One question, why would you wish bad on spillway fishermen?

My thoughts when I read that is, more fish caught below the damn indicates more fish out of the lake.
Or he just doesn't like spillway fisherman.

Originally Posted by greyf350

Appreciate the info and chart. One question, why would you wish bad on spillway fishermen?

Downsouth hit the nail on the head. I'm not trying to be mean just would rather the lake not lose any to the river but like I said, if they are in there I hope you and all the others catch all you want. I have seen years that were devestating to the lake population, normally a very cold spell and the gates getting opened during that time at like 2/3 the way. Biggest crappie I have EVER seen came out of the spillway and a lot of them floating on top where they had just come through the gates.
I honestly don't wish anyone, not even those I don't care for at all, a bad outing and help when I can if asked.

Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Downsouth hit the nail on the head. I'm not trying to be mean just would rather the lake not lose any to the river but like I said, if they are in there I hope you and all the others catch all you want. I have seen years that were devestating to the lake population, normally a very cold spell and the gates getting opened during that time at like 2/3 the way. Biggest crappie I have EVER seen came out of the spillway and a lot of them floating on top where they had just come through the gates.
I honestly don't wish anyone, not even those I don't care for at all, a bad outing and help when I can if asked.

Kind of off topic, but have you ever tried single polin in the mouths of creeks in the Yalobusha river? I know a fella used to do it years ago. Seems I remember you would have to fish it on a rise, though my memory isn't the best. All this talk of giants ending up in the river has got me thinking

We have, haven't done it in years but we used to catch some when the river was shut off too, going from one hole to the next but most of what we caught were catfish. They do pretty good in the old river run jigging at times.

We used to wear em out about 20 miles below the spillway where Potocowa Creek flowed into the Yalobusha. Crappie and largemouth. This was 35 years ago, though, when I was still a kid. (and years may have clouded my memory a bit about how many constituted "Wore em out")