Porcupine water levels

[Bduck]

FYI last year the lake topped out at 10k acre feet and it’s currently at 12k and rising, my neighbor who is on the water board for the lake said with rate it’s rising it should be spilling in 6-8 days so it’s looking good for this summer currently. Just an FYI if you didn’t see the info from DWR the camping areas below the dam have all been closed and is day use only, to much trash and from what I saw people were “living” there in their campers and the junk around the camps was crazy


 

Makes me sick, we started fishing Porcupine back in the summer of 1976 from our canoe for kokanee it was so beautiful then not many campers. We would pull our truck and camper in the shade near the creek coming from the spring. Kept our drinks cold in the water. There were no trees along the beach in those days. Our kids grew up fishing and swimming there. We later started renting a boat from the MWR on base and would spend vacations and weekends there throughout the summer. As years went by and the crowd grew we finally quit camping there and eventually it was banned all together. So many fond memories, we made several close family friends there fishing that continued thru the years, some of them have passed on now. I havent fished
 it for years now, loved to ice fish it for the Kokes.

Pete, I too remember those years mentioned, spent some summer weekends fishing the Pig. There was also some good fall hunting grounds I spent beyond the gate