Thread: Butla

Gates being open at all at Butla is not good when you havent and dont get any rain. Last year was a drout situation for sure, Nader lacked 7 feet reaching summer pool. One good thing is that the fesh have plenty of weeds for the hatchlings to hide in.

Agreed but wouldn't have gotten as low.

Originally Posted by mississippi

The little that ran through the stuck gate would not have stopped a rise with decent rains last year.

Thanks big c. I knew something was going on. This site has gotten to where its not worth a grain of salt to me. I thought maybe I could help people and learn at the same time but it seems everybody knows everything on here. I may get upset about the shape butla is in but I have been open minded.

As for the original post u can hang it up, the most fish I have heard of that have been caught all YEAR has been 7. Good luck. Ask Bigblue his tactic and u may be able to get u 1 or 2.

How did this post go from a "has anyone fished butla thread" to an arguement about water being let out and the lake dropping from 211 to 208 thread????? Last year on May 1 Butla was above curve at 210.6. We got no rain that month and the lake dropped to 208.5 by May 31. No rain in June to speak of and dropped to 207.7 by June 30. A very small amount of rain in July and up to 210.9 by July 31. That is a drop of 2.9 ft in 61 days which is an average of .05 a day. I to also have common sense and it is really hard for me to believe the gates were open at more than a trickle over these 2 months with this little loss of water. However you want to slice it though mother nature put Butla in bad shape last summer but she is returning the favor and helping Butla out this year.

Just for comparison Grenada dropped .5 from May 1 to June 30 which is a rate of .01 a day. With Butla being the smallest of the lakes and being the one most effectived by small amounts of gain or loss of water maybe these numbers will make a little sense.

Originally Posted by bird down

thanks big c. I knew something was going on. This site has gotten to where its not worth a grain of salt to me. I thought maybe i could help people and learn at the same time but it seems everybody knows everything on here. I may get upset about the shape butla is in but i have been open minded.

As for the original post u can hang it up, the most fish i have heard of that have been caught all year has been 7. Good luck. Ask bigblue his tactic and u may be able to get u 1 or 2.

thumpage

Handi I think your figures are off May 1 the lake was 210 that's 10ft under normal not over.

Originally Posted by jimfish

Handi I think your figures are off May 1 the lake was 210 that's 10ft under normal not over.

From looking at the guide curve I thought they didnt starting raising up butla till may 1. May be wrong though.