West Point draw down?

[Procraft3]

It just sets up some patterns that I like to fish for both striped fish and largemouth. Shad are already wanting to bunch up at that time and this will just concentrate them even more.

It is also a fantastic time to just ride and look. I've found so much structure over the years when the water gets super low. It is a great time to mark it mentally and with a waypoint for the next year.

I'll also go ahead and mention that it will be a somewhat dangerous time. That water level puts a lot of still standing timber at water level or just under. Upriver will be very dangerous if you aren't familiar. There will be tons of sandbars exposed or with inches of water.

While it’s true about the sand bars. A lot of the standing timber is gone. Wolf creek is a perfect example. It still has standing timber but nothing like it used to be. There used to be so much timber in Yellow Jacket if the lake was down 5 feet you really had to watch it.

 

[BASS1FUN]

It’s been lower than what Dustin said because I hunt the Corp and I’ve walked to some of the islands, I love when its low it makes it fish smaller.

 

[pbradley]

All y'all should stay off the lake when it's low. Go somewhere else.

But, if you do go, whatever you do, DON'T throw a Little George, no matter what.

 

[Msteele]

There’s going to be some lower units get popped in 15’ to 20’ of water.

 

[Lindseys Grandpa]

Like Dustin I am looking forward to it .

 

[antharper]

I hear that that the Corp didn’t get the funding for the dam repairs . The draw down is being put off til maybe next year

 

[Dustin Pate]

I hear that that the Corp didn’t get the funding for the dam repairs . The draw down is being put off til maybe next year

Yep, looking at normal winter pool. They already have it down to 630. Very good fishing about to go down.

 

[gma1320]

The lowest it got in recent times was in December of 2007. It hit 621. That late summer set the low water mark up river also. Think it bottomed out around 5ft on the gauge. I remember walking dry areas that are normally over your head.

I believe that was the year that me and a friend tried to fish the hooch and couldn't get but about 200 yards from the ramp. We put in at the old softball field on highway 92 next to the auto auction trying to fish at the mouth of Sweetwater creek. Once you got so far up there were huge boulders in the channel we couldn't get around