The lake where our lakehouse is located is now over 22 feet low. The lake is 350 yards from the gate instead of 3 now. For some of you, that is an every year occurrence, but with the deepest part of the lake at 55 feet, that poses some real concern. Thought I would take my dads bass boat out for a long search around the lake to identify the shallow spots. Whole new lake to learn this year. The most we have seen it down in the last 14 years is 17 feet. 5 more feet can create whole new dangers. Almost makes me so nervous that I think we might just go to other lakes to the east just to be safe. Hope you all have a great holiday weekend and please remember what we are celebrating!
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Tell everyone in the Dallas/ft worth area to quit watering their lawns in November and everyone would be better off. Oklahoma City drained the lake where I have a lake house last spring because they can't adopt a pro active water conservation plan. I don't think the lake will ever recover either -
Dang that would make me very nervous as well. Id either find a different lake or take an old boat out or flat bottom, something to do some looking around before Id take my boat out there. No telling what you will find. Im surprised the ramps even go into the water that far to even launch a boat. I know our lake you would be SOL.Comment
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Sorry to hear about all the water issues in Texas. Our lake has been down 40' to 50' for the last 7 years so the Corp of Engineers could make repairs to the dam. While not really a boating problem due to the overall size, this caused all kinds of issues with marinas having to move and quite a few ramps being unusable not to mention the tourism impact. But this year they brought it back up to full pool although there were a couple months where they considered keeping it down due to an endangered fish that was found to be thriving in the headwaters. Of course once the local politicians went crazy about another year of tourism being hurt, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency got involved and have taken measures to move them. Hope you all get some much needed rain. It would suck to not be able to use your lakehouse.
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Laserfish - which lake is this?Originally posted by laserfish View Post
We were going to try PK this weekend but its 15 ft down or so. Same issue - last year at 11 ft down, there were areas where we would board in previous years that had trees sticking out of the water.
Needless to say, I'm a little worried myself this year....Comment
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Im pretty sure water is the new commodity in Texas now. Lewisville lake is 8ft low and we are already approaching summer. The ramp I use is one of the few that stays open when the lake is very high or very low but as of now I think its gonna last much longer.Comment
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I am guessing that the state is not going to give you a property tax break as it really isn't waterfront property now. In MN, waterfront property is taxed at a much higher rate and if they did this the locals would come unglued regarding having to still pay the higher rate of tax without the benifit that the property brings. If TX taxes property this way, I would petition the local agency. It wouldn't help your recreation cause, but may provide additional dollars to cover fuel while trailing elsewhere.Originally posted by laserfish View Post"I think I am pretty smart for an idiot"Comment
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Also suggest looking on the bass forums for your lake - they often have great maps marked with all sorts of "gems" that are below the surface.Comment
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