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I bet that Smallie was FUN!!!!
How come they draw your lake down so far?


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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) uses the highland reservoirs of East Tennessee for water storage and power generation. The main reason for the winter drawdown is flood control from Spring and Summer rains. Our lakes up here make up the headwaters of the Tennessee River, which is navigable and flows through our state, Alabama, Mississippi and ends up in Kentucky dumping into the Ohio River. Cherokee and Douglas, my two local lakes, can experience a 40ft vertical drop in water levels. I can literally walk around brush piles in the winter that will be 30ft deep in the Summer at full pool. It makes for challenging fishing conditions when the water is rapidly falling each season and then rising.