It's raining!!!!

OKC has had around 1/2" of rain before noon today. Its been slow most of the time. I expect Eufaula will be a risen in a coupla days if not already from rainfall in the watershed.

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Amen!

Nah you just imagening this. It's actaully liquid sunshine. ( lol) im glad to get some for the garden but ive had enough for a few days. Lets save some for july and august.

I hafta agree with KD on this one. Let's not get all our Summer rain in April!

Question is, will it help or hurt the fishing and the spawn if the lake comes up 4 or 5 feet. Anybody got any good thoughts on that?

I just looked at the radar and it's really kinda neat. It looks like there is one little spot down around ringling that is seeding the whole system and it just keep generating more storm. Looks like the I-44 corridor is in for quite a dousing!

it'll will slowem down on tenkiller for sure. when the muddy water hits they seem to get lock jaw. looks like they'll get a rest for a little while

The lake has been rising slowly over the last two weeks and is currently only a little less than 3 feet below normal lake level. The last reading I got at the Corp's official website for Lake Eufaula shows 582.17 and normal lake level is 585.

I've been watching this regularly for the last six months and the lake level never dropped any lower than 6 feet, yet I was hearing the locals try to insist it was down 7-8 feet. I didn't argue with them, just nodded my head and went about my business.

I've also been watching the shoreline receding on my lot and the water inching a little further up the bank every few days due to all the rain. I suspect the lake level to return to normal within a couple of weeks.

Hopefully the corp won't start releasing water at the dam and let it drop back to lower levels........thus effecting the spawn.

You don't think the rapid rise will affect them?

I just looked back and saw where it was almost 5' below back in ...was it February?

I have talked with the hydrologists a few times over the last we years and they tell me they have put a seasonal pool on the lake like Kaw has in order to help with waterfowl habitat. Unfortunately for us waterfowlers, they have been unable to capitalize on it due to lack of fall rain, but it is confusing for those that read the paper or call the corps recording where they only state the level above or below normal. As I understand it, during the summer the seasonal normal level is 584, then after they seed millet , they raise it back up to 585.

In my opinion and I am no way an expert on any of this but I see it slowing them down til the lake gets somewhat stable, first of all the water will cool off some and that will push em out some or slow em down. But in the upper end of Longtown Creek and Dutchess Creek the fish were just starting to the beds and the water temps there were cooler by 5 degrees than the off colored water in the south and north ends of the lake. So we still have lots of spawning fish to go yet, just have to follow them up the lake..Same as in Tenkiller..the fish there were in the upper end of the lake were doing there thing hot and heavy and the water temps were 65 to 67 degrees in the afternoons, while down the lake the water temps were in the lower 60's and the crappie hadnt came into the spawning brush yet and were still holding in the 20 to 24' brushpiles right in the mouths of the coves..Fish at Eufaula act differently than they do at Tenkiller so I am still gonna hunt for them as hard as I did before the rain..beats working..