Thread: Trying To Understand

Well, I for one are trying to understand why are we drawing down all the lakes in S.C.. Seem to me that is odd. I know we have a draw down in winter for spring rains, but why the drawn down in the spring. May be I'm missing something. Seeing how we have more fishing pressure on our lake than ever, just seem that we would keep the lakes up to help with the spawn. Yes! I know what the power people say the lakes were build for power, but just think if all the people didn't live, work, and fish on the lakes we would not need their power any way, just my two cents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by R00tyT00ty309

clfarms1 yes we have floods, of mostly farm land. Our state will not let you build within the 100 year flood plain. The draw down is at spawning season which kills alot of our spawning grounds which mean less places for the fry to hide, in turn means less fish. Thanks for your input.

It doesn't make any sense to me either, with the rains we have had there is no reason the lakes shouldn't be full by spawning time. They always let them up and drop them back down right before prime time.

I also believe you are referring to the piss poor fishing on Marion right now. I talked to a guy that said it has dropped 1.5 ft last week and they were still pulling it hard yesterday. I am new to the lake and I idled for 5 miles yesterday because I didn't feel comfortable plaining off. Probably only plained off a handful of times all weekend. There was and still is a good opportunity to showcase one of SC's finest lakes crappie fishing this weekend and them pulling water will definately hurt the impression some will have. We can't control the weather but they can control the pulling of water.