08-22-2015, 03:59 PM
[quote utahgolf]you would think in the age of instant communication that things like this wouldn't happen. Or will it always be a crap shoot when it comes to knowing full draw downs even when we know we're facing bad water conditions?[/quote]
You would think so, but it doesn't even seem to matter sometimes. Around this time three years ago, one of my favorite southeast Idaho bass fisheries was in a similar situation. We could see it coming, the farmers were drawing it down at about 8ft a week, so we were all contacting IF&G. They didn't seem to believe us and kept assuring us the reservoir would be fine. Well, about a week later the outlet looked a lot like these pics, except instead of carp there were a bunch of dead bass.
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You would think so, but it doesn't even seem to matter sometimes. Around this time three years ago, one of my favorite southeast Idaho bass fisheries was in a similar situation. We could see it coming, the farmers were drawing it down at about 8ft a week, so we were all contacting IF&G. They didn't seem to believe us and kept assuring us the reservoir would be fine. Well, about a week later the outlet looked a lot like these pics, except instead of carp there were a bunch of dead bass.
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