Patoka this Sat.

Anybody planning on fishing Patoka this weekend, as you have tourneys planned, might want to keep your eye on the road conditions as rivers around French Lick are already high from weekends rains and French Lick as been flooded once already this month. Lost River will flood at/ near Orleans and close down Hwy 37 if it gets much more rain. All highways into French Lick from north and east will flood out maybe again. Best route to Patoka will be going to Jasper down Hwy 231 then take 164 to Newton Stewart unless your coming in from the south. Lost River at French Lick is already 19 ft and slightly dropping but East Fork of the White River if it goes Higher than predicted right now will back the Lost up. Ground is totally saturated and everything is super high and climbing. You can check these websites for road and river conditions.

https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=IND

https://www.in.gov/indot/2420.htm

Good luck fishing as they are predicting anywhere 2 to maybe 5 inches of rain for the next 5 days starting tonite for southern Indiana.

We are now in a flood watch.

supposed to get 2 more inches of rain up here in the next 24-36 hrs.

We got 1.2 Sat and that put the creeks and rivers rising and flood stage in lowlands and 30 min. ago and started raining and going to stay ugly Next 5-7 days weatherman is saying. Fish safely.

Thank you Sir for the heads up

4 plus inches of rain so far in the rain gauge and still raining. Good thing it has been spread out as a steady yet gentle sometimes rain but the creeks and rivers are totally full and some low land flooding here and there but not severe yet. They are all pure muddy. And another good thing, rain has been warmer than local lake temps so it should raise the surface temps maybe into the low 50’s. We just don’t need any more rain. Going to be fishing muddy water for a long time.

4.5” and finally quit raining. Patoka is about 6 ft above summer pool and rising. Last Sat. they had a big FLW bass tourney, temp averaged 35 degrees cold, wind 15-25 mph out of the east, constant hard rain and mixed snow, very miserable conditions, more than 3 ft whitecaps on lake and 3 boats capsized, 2 at Stewart Newton Ramp so watch that wind and lake conditions. Good luck.

3 boats capsized!!!!!!!! holy smokes! that will put a dent in the allowable weather on that trail. lol they must have had a rookie class?:biggrin

what did they catch?

The Ramp is a really nice Ramp, but steep, and when the wind is,out of the NE, SE, or East with the wind out of the east at 15-25 you had 3’ whitecaps as they tried to launch and I guess it was rather wicked. 8 plus pounds—3 fish won it paying 4500.00 if you could weather the snow, all day hard rain, and miserable wind.
And 35 degree air temp. 1/3 of the contestants quit midway, and I heard another 1/3 didn’t weigh anything in. Wicked fishing.