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Well Nimrod was up 21 feet above normal spring pool and just crested with COE pulling some water. Now more rain and COE shut it off and river flowing higher at Gravely so lake once again rising ! When will we get rid of this mess ? With no more rain it will be over a month according to my prediction .:banghead
Blue Mtn Lake is over 22' and water shut off , rising more too!
It will be a month before fishing gets good around here and we didn't have as much rain as you did.
It never gets good around here David !!!!!
Pack-up it's time for a road trip.
The rain ran us off the lake today. We have had our share of rain this spring
I found a website last year........can't seem to locate it now........that shows history of lakes, and Nimrod has been 20 feet high most of the time in April, May, and into June........every year except last two. Not sure why that lake fluctuates more than all the others, but it does. One year it was high so long because the Fourche couldn't go anywhere because the Arkansas was high because the Mississippi was flooded..........and it stayed about 20 feet high for months.........and finally stabilized and cleared at that depth, and we caught fish. But when the flow is going, and the lake is a mudpit, it sucks (for me). I'm sure you pro guys can catch fish in any conditions, but I can't in high, flowing, muddy water.
I've fished Nimrod since the stop sign was on the tree as you enter the river channel out from Carter Cove. I always measure 'old timers' on that lake by whether they remember the stop sign!!
Here it is. Look at lake levels for March, April, May, and June for last 6 years.
July 1 till deer season, the lake is normally fine.
Lake Nimrod Water Level
we can make it to the road in a homemade boat thats the only thing we got left that"ll float, its already over all the wheat and oats 2 feet high and risin, how highs the water momma ,3 feet high and risin , how highs the water poppa , she said 3 feet high and risin , well the hives are gone , i lost my bee's , the chickens are sleepin in the willow trees, cows in water up past her knees , 3 feet high and risin !!!!!!!
Buckrub What year was the stop sign ? I been here off and on most of 43 years or more. The Corps website has a place you can look up past levels by month and year .
Geez man. Don't ask an old man WHAT YEAR something in the past was!
I've been fishing Nimrod since about 1968, I'd guess. The stop sign was there when I was in college, I graduated in 1970. I did have a stint where I didn't fish it much for a few years. I honestly don't know what year it 'disappeared'. I'd guess the tree it was nailed on, fell in........just a guess. If you left Carter Cove and headed straight to the spot where the river 'opens up' into the main lake, where if you were going downstream the last trees would be on your left, there was an opening to get through, and the stop sign was nailed onto one of those trees.
I had a 14' alum boat with 25hp motor, as did most guys I fished with. We just hauled butt out of Carter Cove at top speed. One year they drew they lake down and we went over there not knowing that, and stood there and GULPED at all the stumps about 2 inches below the water line that we'd spent years flying over! How we missed 'em all is God's Guess. Lucky.
Somewhere along the way I found out about Sunlight Bay and had success, and haven't gone back to Carter Cove much......unless it was during drawdowns and we had to launch at Anderson Branch. Seems I've missed the best fishing by not learning the main lake, but we have done danged well out of the Bay.
Memories...........man.