Lessons learned the hard way

[rneck]

If any of you guys are going hunting on the corps land around Lake Russell, Take note of which way the water is going, because if it's dropping you might not want to park your boat at the back of shallow coves. Just saying so ya'll don't learn the hard way too. You are welcome

[Herewego]

Oh no. Kind of like getting stuck in shore with tide going out.
Good advice and thanks for sharing.
Hope it worked out for you.

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[sinkermaker]

Thanks

[Fisholishous]

As far as I can tell, DOWN is the ONLY direction COE lake levels go these days! Received 8 inches of rain in Oct in the upper Hartwell basin, and essentially no level increase in Hartwell or Clarks Hill. What's it going to take?? I guess 10 ft low is the new normal pool for these two lakes. Yeah Russell level gets moved around a lot too. Within 2-5 ft anyways. Seems power production takes priority from the hydros these days, not water management.

[gabowman]

Wow! How much did Russell drop on you in just a few hours?!?

[rneck]

Wow! How much did Russell drop on you in just a few hours?!?

Not sure but when I beached the boat the back was in about 10 inch deep water. I sat in the woods 5 hours and when it got too dark to see I headed out, got to the top of the ridge and could tell there was a problem when I saw the boat on dry ground. The water line was about three feet behind the boat. It's only a 16 ft alumacraft but with the extra quarter inch plate aluminum bottom two batteries gas motor and gear, close to 450 pounds at least. I had resigned myself to endure until the water came back up and decided to stay busy and work to exhaustion to help with getting some sleep. So I pushed and dug with my hands until too tired and then found a 10 inch diameter log that I used as a pry bar. Two and a half hours later she was floating and I'm still hurting. Too old to be making these memories.

[STUMP HUNTER]

Not sure but when I beached the boat the back was in about 10 inch deep water. I sat in the woods 5 hours and when it got too dark to see I headed out, got to the top of the ridge and could tell there was a problem when I saw the boat on dry ground. The water line was about three feet behind the boat. It's only a 16 ft alumacraft but with the extra quarter inch plate aluminum bottom two batteries gas motor and gear, close to 450 pounds at least. I had resigned myself to endure until the water came back up and decided to stay busy and work to exhaustion to help with getting some sleep. So I pushed and dug with my hands until too tired and then found a 10 inch diameter log that I used as a pry bar. Two and a half hours later she was floating and I'm still hurting. Too old to be making these memories.

Those are memories I don't care to make neither! I have never seen the lake drop that fast after many many nightstalks there. Thanks for the heads up