COE Lakes

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Originally Posted by ragencage

Nice post, well said... So, have you seriously caught crappie in a flooded cotton field? I guess if the stalks are still standing then it'd be plenty of structure to fish around haha

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Yep, almost every year it goes over the emergency spillway or gets real close. Jig fishing briar patches is especially fun, snakes laying the briars and crappy spawning underneath em!!!!:biggrin

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Originally Posted by "G"

You know......we are just lucky the Federal Gov't and the COE built those lakes.....even tho the flood control practices and policy that these lakes were built for affect the fishermen....we still have the four best crappie lakes in the U.S. ..... Fishing cant be great all the time....heck its not on any lake....thats just part of fishing. :twocents

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Very true G, we need to count our blessings instead of getting our lips poked out.

I look at it like this, imagine where we would be today had they held these lakes up 10 ft instead of dropping to rule curve when they did. They are not going to be able to release any of this water for several weeks with the Ms river coming up like it is. And only then if we don't get anymore heavy rains like we have had. Those folks know what they are doing.

I've seen and heard of it happening a few times. The Mississippi river gets close or over flood stage. The Yazoo river rises. The COE try to release some of the water from Butla, Sardis and Nader, Greenwood will flood everytime. Butla released to much water a few years ago and flooded some communities along hwy 3.

Fishing in a cotton field. The year that Enid flooded and washed out the bridge by the new hatchery. The road to Persimmon Hill was 2' under water so it was closed. Across Bean creek from Cossar boat ramp is a creek that runs under I-55. Between I-55 and hwy 51 was a cotton field. It was the best 3 days of wading I ever had.

I hope that none of the flying carp gets into any of the lakes and reservoirs from the rivers with all the flooding. I can't imagine running the boat across a lake and a bunch of big fish jumping up getting in the boat and hitting me in the head like I have seen on youtube.

Saw em off hwy 7 in the fields along Perry Creek in the flood of the 70's

I remember a few years about 35 years ago when Sardis flooded. We waded the cotton fields and fished the flooded woods.
We pulled off the side of the highway and camped in a cotton field. That was fun.

3 more feet and I will be putting in at Bryant!!!!! ( and Torrence will be underwater!!):crazy::crazy:

As a long time Mississippi Deltan, and resident of Greenwood, I have to think that the flood control aspect of the COE lakes is more important than any fishery. I love to fish as much as any of yall, but......Attachment 224703Attachment 224704Attachment 224705 This is Greenwood during the flood of 27.

Agree completely