Eagle lake

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08-19-2019, 04:31 PM
murdok

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Eagle lake

Been to my camp the last two weekends to clean up. The place looks like a bomb went off. Not to mention it’s 110 degrees in the shade. On the upside all the flood control locks are wide open a fish are hungry. Talked to one guy who caught a limit off the side of public road around a culvert in 2 hrs. Too bad I got too much work to do up there to go. This is a few pics of the area around my camp.
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two pics are after I cleaned up. I did find a piece of a pier I’m gonna convert into a fish cleaning deck and I found my new service pole that floated off about a mile away. Now to get to work on fixing my floor.

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08-19-2019, 04:44 PM
trypman1

So sorry for you! A great lake for sure.
08-19-2019, 05:08 PM
Swampseed

Wish I was closer to give you a hand with clean up. Always want to fish Eagle, heard one heck of a crappie lake.
08-19-2019, 06:35 PM
stormcloud

Water is beautiful to fish on and relaxing to be on but it can really act ugly sometimes. Flooding can be worse than a fire. Looks like it stayed about a foot under
the floor for an extended amount time. Did it get into the camp or did wave action get you?
08-19-2019, 08:26 PM
feeshrman

Man that's tuff. Hate to hear about your place and several others I know in the area. Maybe they will install the pumps now.

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08-19-2019, 09:51 PM
Cal panman

Feeshrman were have you been, Miss your pictures of Tenn Tom slabs made me go get in the boat. Don’t mean to steal the thread . Hope you get the camp up and going quick and it’s not too bad
08-19-2019, 10:47 PM
murdok

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Originally Posted by stormcloud

Water is beautiful to fish on and relaxing to be on but it can really act ugly sometimes. Flooding can be worse than a fire. Looks like it stayed about a foot under
the floor for an extended amount time. Did it get into the camp or did wave action get you?

Waves, water was under the camp for around 60 days

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08-19-2019, 10:53 PM
murdok

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Originally Posted by feeshrman

Man that's tuff. Hate to hear about your place and several others I know in the area. Maybe they will install the pumps now.

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Compared to some I got lucky. There’s plenty of camps and homes that are just gone. I took a 4 wheeler ride through the woods and saw around 20 dead deer. It’s a sad situation but it’ll bounce back

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08-20-2019, 09:37 AM
BigRiverMarine

Eagle lake

Sorry for the loss of everyone’s property down there. Even the Yore Store went out of business. What a shame.

I guess the carp will be in Eagle now. SMH[emoji30]

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08-20-2019, 09:45 AM
feeshrman

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Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

Sorry for the loss of everyone’s property down there. Even the Yore Store went out of business. What a shame.

I guess the carp will be in Eagle now. SMH[emoji30]

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Probably so about the carp, but will they be able to reproduce? I read somewhere about them requiring a certain amount of flowing water to reproduce.

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08-20-2019, 09:47 AM
feeshrman

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Originally Posted by murdok

Compared to some I got lucky. There’s plenty of camps and homes that are just gone. I took a 4 wheeler ride through the woods and saw around 20 dead deer. It’s a sad situation but it’ll bounce back

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No mater your situation, you can always find someone who has it worse. I know from first hand experience. Hope everything goes well with the rebuild.

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08-20-2019, 09:49 AM
feeshrman

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Originally Posted by Cal panman

Feeshrman were have you been, Miss your pictures of Tenn Tom slabs made me go get in the boat. Don’t mean to steal the thread . Hope you get the camp up and going quick and it’s not too bad

I usually take a break from crappie fishing July and August. I don’t live close enough to water to justify many early morning only trips. Be back at it soon though

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08-20-2019, 12:11 PM
DonDon

Sure hate that man. Never thought I'd see Eagle get as high as it did
08-20-2019, 02:34 PM
murdok

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Originally Posted by DonDon

Sure hate that man. Never thought I'd see Eagle get as high as it did

in recorded history its never gotten that high. and yes bmr the carp are in there i saw em jumping in muddy bayou but they got in there in 2011 when they had to let water in the lake from steel bayou and they died off. its true they cant survive in a landlocked lake.
08-20-2019, 09:25 PM
deltarat

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Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

Sorry for the loss of everyone’s property down there. Even the Yore Store went out of business. What a shame.

I guess the carp will be in Eagle now. SMH[emoji30]

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I hadn't even though about the carp. Another good lake will bite the dust.
08-20-2019, 09:37 PM
Swampseed

I thought Eagle had carp in it because it was not land lock from Mississippi river?
08-20-2019, 11:13 PM
murdok

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Originally Posted by Swampseed

I thought Eagle had carp in it because it was not land lock from Mississippi river?

No its normally locked off but when they open all the flood control mechanisms they can get in there. It’s rare the corps have to let water into eagle

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08-21-2019, 08:41 AM
Bluesraider

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Originally Posted by murdok

in recorded history its never gotten that high. and yes bmr the carp are in there i saw em jumping in muddy bayou but they got in there in 2011 when they had to let water in the lake from steel bayou and they died off. its true they cant survive in a landlocked lake.

Pretty sure they can survive about anywhere they get into. Being landlocked hasn't killed them off in Reelfoot. Been there for years.
08-21-2019, 09:54 AM
murdok

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Originally Posted by Bluesraider

Pretty sure they can survive about anywhere they get into. Being landlocked hasn't killed them off in Reelfoot. Been there for years.

i dont see how it kills em off either but a lot of biologist say eventually they will eventually disappear. we'll see. i hate those things.
08-21-2019, 10:14 AM
Boatbottom

That's a real mess. Is there any such thing as flood insurance for those camps?
08-21-2019, 10:23 AM
murdok

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Originally Posted by Boatbottom

That's a real mess. Is there any such thing as flood insurance for those camps?

the people that live there can get it but i don't know anybody that has flood insurance on a camp. fema is up there but their only going to assist the folks that file homestead exemption there is my understanding. i didn't realize how complicated it was to own anything that is in a flood plain. i have to have a permit for everything i do up there and they can fine the heck out of ya if you dont play by the rules.