VortechSS

they sure do make it a LOT easier to find the way back at night!

As for the lake level, We found bottom towards the back of drowning that night, right out in the middle!.. but im told thats not a new thing for that cove

carter38

[QUOTE=VortechSS;3207788]they sure do make it a LOT easier to find the way back at night!

Thats no joke

E Dock DD

I suspect you found the gravel bar that extends about half way out into the cove past Hi-Lift near the Lakemont Shores boat ramp. We hit it with a prob back in the 1970's. You need to stay on the North half of cove to avoid it when the water is at this elevation. Back in the late's 70's they would lower the water enough that it was fully exposed. They used to have some markers, but they are long gone. (Somebody that owns a prop shop might have removed them.)

E Dock DD

I wondered why they pulled the water down this year using the spillway floodgates instead of making a lot of money using the generators. (I think this is why the GRDA has not been opposed to this draw down because it gives them a reason to bring the lake down three feet in August during peak generating season). It looks like the answer is in this weeks Chronicle on Page A7. The reason is a FERC edict that the dissolved oxygen measurement in the water below the generators be done with no generation.

E Dock DD

Matt, I suspect that they make more money in an hour of generation then they could could make if they had a whole bunch of patrolmen writing tickets. I wish the patrol would sometimes wonder over by my Uncle's dock in Drowning Creek and keep the cruisers at full plow at least 50 feet from his dock. The wakes do a pretty good job of keeping the deck of the dock washed off. I am amazed that the lift is still attached to the dock after the big weekends.

Quinlan

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Thanks again for the help at LOTO! Now I know what the DD is for.

Q

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