Thread: not good

this week starting Tuesday it became pretty tough here in north texas to ketch crappie fish
the weather might have some play in it ......
I hear some of the docks west of town are on , but close to dfw is pretty flat everywhere I hit
got close to skunked in several hot spots from last week
and yes the struggle is real .....

LOL like tough/rough driving conditions.... looks like you still got on a few....

Neither rain,sleet,or snow will stop Ketchn from catching crappie!


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the drive was ugly , them I can drive folks get in the fast lane and do 20 and the rest of us pass them in the slow lane at 55 ......
and the ensuing slip and sideways action crossing lanes is quite the ride ......
one thing for certain the ice man cometh ....

Man I am glad the ice has been gone for a while from us down here! However we got 8' of rain out of this mess plus all the water that falls East of DFW comes right down here for a week after. So the lake is now full at about 172' and rising, which is up from 169' and maybe a little, so that's almost 3 feet of water up this week. Remember this is Toledo Bend with 1200 miles of shoreline so that's one huge amount of water. Also note the Generators both are running 24/7. I know fishing was hot before this, but not I suspect it stinks for a little while.

Skip

By the way Skip. For fun I did the calculation. TB has about 186,000 surface acres. 43,560 sq ft per acre x 186,000 x 3 (rise of feet) x 7.48 (gallon per cubic ft) = 181,812,470,400 gallons of rain. Yes almost 182 billion gallons. Plus whatever went through the dam gates.

Originally Posted by "D"

By the way Skip. For fun I did the calculation. TB has about 186,000 surface acres. 43,560 sq ft per acre x 186,000 x 3 (rise of feet) x 7.48 (gallon per cubic ft) = 181,812,470,400 gallons of rain. Yes almost 182 billion gallons. Plus whatever went through the dam gates.

Hey thanks for the calculations! It always amazes me how much rain can raise the level of this huge lake as fast as it can. Up over 3 feet now this time and with both generators running 24/7 since it started and not with gates open a foot yesterday and loosing ground, lol! I see the internet says the lake will hold 1.5 trillion gallons of water, lol!

Skip

Originally Posted by skiptomylu

Hey thanks for the calculations! It always amazes me how much rain can raise the level of this huge lake as fast as it can. Up over 3 feet now this time and with both generators running 24/7 since it started and not with gates open a foot yesterday and loosing ground, lol! I see the internet says the lake will hold 1.5 trillion gallons of water, lol!

Skip

The water from LOP goes in Caddo, from there into the Red. But you are 100% right all it does to us is give us bad fishing. It doesn't matter if it is the Red or the Sabine the people in the south is going to big problems again! We do need to pray for them until this over. It rained here today an expecting more rain expected tomorrow. Thanks to all that are concerned.

Bobby

Originally Posted by oliverb

The water from LOP goes in Caddo, from there into the Red. But you are 100% right all it does to us is give us bad fishing. It doesn't matter if it is the Red or the Sabine the people in the south is going to big problems again! We do need to pray for them until this over. It rained here today an expecting more rain expected tomorrow. Thanks to all that are concerned.

Bobby

Yes it sucks big time, this is 3 years in a row for us and now the lake is over full pool with gates open 2’ each now and both generators running. I believe the water changing and the current being more than normal really puts the skids on fishing!

last year was worse with that Hurricane and the year before we had the a ton of rain too. Tonight we are suppose to have severe weather again.

Skip

Originally Posted by skiptomylu

Yes it sucks big time, this is 3 years in a row for us and now the lake is over full pool with gates open 2’ each now and both generators running. I believe the water changing and the current being more than normal really puts the skids on fishing!

last year was worse with that Hurricane and the year before we had the a ton of rain too. Tonight we are suppose to have severe weather again.

Skip

Just looked at LOP and it is up 7 feet and they are holding the majority due to the Red is above flood stage.