tenkiller archives

**crappie_jiggin** · 04-04-2012, 10:51 PM

I sent a message to the Corps of Engineers about the lake level at Tenkiller. Here the response I got.

Due to having 13 lakes that release water directly into the Arkansas River and more lakes upstream of those, we have a management plan that takes all these lakes into consideration; including each lake's current pool elevation, anticipated inflows, and their historical frequency of filling their flood pools.

During the last storm event, Tenkiller Lake did not receive as much flood water as some of the other projects in the system. That placed Tenkiller a little lower on the priority list for releases. Instead, we had to release water from lakes with higher flood pools first.

We try to release as much as we can without flooding Van Buren and Ft. Smith. As the flood pools of all the lakes in the system become lower, we decrease the total amount of water that flows into Arkansas in an effort to reduce hazardous conditions in the navigation channel.

Currently, we are in the last portion of releasing all the flood water in the system. We anticipate increasing the releases from Tenkiller Lake no later than Thursday afternoon; 5 April. Barring more rain, we expect Tenkiller to be back to the top of conservation pool by the end of next week.

This is the second message i received from them.

We have an update, our latest predictions show that the pool will not return to normal level until approximately April 23.

Of course this is all barring we don't get any more rain on it's water shed.

**Ranger09** · 04-06-2012, 09:40 PM

8' and falling..Yeah Boy....Ranger

**Ranger09** · 04-08-2012, 09:02 AM

6.20' high and falling. Water level falling fast and should be at normal for the tournament. Can't get sweeter than that. With the water levels falling this fast all ramps will most likely be open from top to bottom of the lake. I will probably be taking my fifth wheel over this week and setting up for a weeks worth of camping or more so all of you that want to sit around a campfire and chew the fat are truly welcome. I will post where I am if it comes together......Ranger

**epill** · 04-09-2012, 01:37 PM

I went out Saturday with my daughter, Dad and Grandpa. It was the first time of having the boat out of the garage this spring and apparently one of the two batteries for my electric motor decided to die over the winter. Also had a bad connection between the charger and the starting batt. so had to swap the one good batt out of the electric motor to start the motor....Anyway, due to not being a full operation, we just stayed around Burnt Cabin and fished a few areas. Mostly just threw bobbers and minnows around timber, brush and shoreline cover. Caught a bunch of small bass, but no crappie. Like I said, didn't have the electric motor to work the banks, so drive...anchor...fish for 20 min...move...drop anchor....fish...

Did have fun, fishing with bobbers is almost always fun, but no crappie and I didn't go around looking for crappies at depth either since I couldn't have stayed on them without my electric. Not much of a report, but I can say the water is still high. Got the boat in a Burnt Cabin, but the very top of the ramp is just visible enough to see where to back in. No debris in the water to speak of and the water was pretty clear. It has a long way to go to get to normal levels. Thanks to everyone on the site for the help.

**Ranger09** · 04-09-2012, 08:29 PM

will have a report for you tomorrow....Ranger

**Ranger09** · 04-10-2012, 07:41 PM

Unloaded on Pettit North ramp and its certainly out of the water. Cherokee ramp is also in service again. Elk Creek is still locked so dont waste your time there. This morning the bite was very slow and there was certainly a current going down the lake. The lake was at 4.86' high at unloading and WT was 69 and at loading time it was 4.32' and 73 degrees. At noon we had 7 crappie in the LW and ended up with 22 very nice fish. Had 10.72 lbs in a 7 fish limit. The afternoon bite was much better thats forsure. The females eggs look much closer than any I have seen at Eufaula. Had to really look for them today and places I caught fish last Tuesday I didn't catch a single fish today. So pinpointing fish for Saturdays Tourney is still up in the air right now. Fish I caught were in 16' to 24' DOW.......Ranger

**Ranger09** · 04-11-2012, 07:05 PM

Got my boat carpet washed this morning..fished in the wind,rain,sunshine, and cloudy conditions all day. Gore Tex is an amazing artical of clothing. Finished with 13 keepers and probably that many more dinks. The bite was totally off today and the WT was cold too never warming up over 67 degrees. Fished alot of stuff from Cookson to HWY 51 bdg. It wasn't any better in 1 spot more than another. Fished wood in 12' to 27' and caught some fish at all depths. Ended up with a 1.15, 1.14, 1.11,and 2 @ 1.07, with 1 of them being a black male. Water clarity is still awesome and the lake has some current which has something to do with the bite being off too. Water level is just over 4' high and all gates are closed as per the Corps website but the turbines are running full tilt. The lake went down about 4" to 5" while I was there today......Ranger

**okoutlaw** · 04-16-2012, 12:58 AM

very decent results this thurs up in the "bend"

**Ranger09** · 04-16-2012, 07:23 PM

Charlie my tourney Partner fished Tenkiller today and finished up with 19 total keepers cleaning 15 and checked out the mid lake area from Sizemore to Snake Ck.. Said the males were black and females ready to bust......Ranger

**crappie crazy** · 04-17-2012, 11:24 AM

Ranger,, what color have you been catchin em on ,,if i remember correctly the last time i crappie fished over there ,which was about mmm 5 years ago we would catch em on red& chrt, and blue and white, and some blk & chrt 1 1/2 tubes and sometimes on bass assassins in the blue colors,, last year when i was smallmouth fishing down torwards the dam i would occassionaly catch one on a 3" smoke with red flake grub,,when i did they were bigguns,,but that was the extint of my crappie catching over there,,, do you fish in the back of barnacle bills any ,,back towards the 2 ramps we used to catch em back there from time to time ???
see you on the water,,

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