How's the water is way up? Is there alot of junk drifting in the water?
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How's the water is way up? Is there alot of junk drifting in the water?
Yes.. and it is closed to all boat traffic until further notice, whenever that may be. :rolleyes:
Me and about twenty of guy are coming down tuseday and geting two house boat at green turtal bay. What's the out look look like?
Looks like you had better bring plenty of things to do while the houseboat is sitting in the slip. The lakes are closed to traffic.
At Kentuckylake.com says lakes will be closed atleast thru Monday at midnight
breeng a dek of playing cerds
Sound like they opened the lake back up!!! What do you think the high water will do to the fishin?
They have not opened Barkley.
and not all of KY is opened back up yet, either.Quote:
The Cumberland River remains closed in the vicinity of Carthage, Tenn. (mile marker 313.6) to Smithland, Ky. (mile marker 0), including Lake Barkley.
I was asked to fly the lakes with the US Coast Guard today to offer my opinion for allowing boating in embayments. It appears my day was not spent in vain. The Coast Guard has opened up more of KY Lake. Every thing from river mile 27 south is open. That river mile is about at the mouth of Little Bear. On Lake Barkley, due to all the drifting debris it remains closed to recreational traffic thru Monday (May 10th). The current prediction for Barkley is a crest on Friday at 369.5, then a slow fall with a level around 367 by Wednesday of next week. The worst may be behind us, pending the forecasted rain is not significant next week. The drift will still be a problem as the water falls and the debris is pulled out of the woods. As for the fish. I believe the sunfish and bass took advantage of the highwater and to spawn. I don't believe it will be a poor spawn, because the water has been up long enough for them to spawn and the eggs to hatch.
Not sure why you feel the need to move your boat now. Other than... As we flew the lakes today, the only danger I noticed was some large boats looked to be very close to roofs of the docks. IF the docks have spud poles that limit how high the dock can rise and they stop, while the water continues to rise, then the boat would be sandwiched between the water and the dock roof. Something you might want to call the marine and ask them.
So do you think the will open it up Monday? From the pics I have seen it's crazy high!! When is the water going to drop?
I saw a news release from the CG this morning that they have opened both lakes except for the 2 mile stretch above and below both dams.
Looks like you may have lucked out but I'm not sure if any of the marinas are letting people take their houseboats out on it or not. A friend and I just drove up to KY to look around and the main lake looks like coffee with an extra shot of creamer. Blood River looked good, at least south of Wildcat did. Water was in the parking lots of both ramps that we looked at and I didn't see a single boat out there anywhere.
Thanks for the update. We are coming down tuseday night and staying till Sunday I was going to come down Monday don't know if it wolud be worth the time.
You need to go to the website moorsresort.com and take a look at what Kentucky Lake looks like right now. Barkley can't be much better. At the top of the website page is a link to the current lake levels. This will give you an idea of what is going on with the lake level and the discharge amounts.
Everyone to their own but there is no way I would be on Barkly lake right now. Way to much trash/dangerous.
It was up this time last year but it can't be near as bad as this mabye I'll make a turn for the best.
Probably close back down monday the big bass tourney will be over tomorrow..
Unless they scrambled around on Friday and reorganized it, they cancelled that one last Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalo13
From the looks of the dozens of glitter rigs in Draffenville Sat afternoon, somebody had a tourney anyway.
Yea I heard yesterday they told them to put in at Moors Buckhorn Johnathon Creek and they would have it anyway..