Our Lakes are up!

sageadvice · Mar 15, 2016

Hi guys! Hard to believe that Lake Shasta is 100% of normal lake level after it being so low for so long. Lake Oroville too!

We got a lot of snow this past week but heavy rains followed and has melted it, no or little snow on the ground here in Westwood Ca. but plenty in the mountains around us.

Whats the water situation look like in your neck of the woods?

Joey

"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"

Wiszard · Mar 15, 2016

Lakes around me haven't come up a whole lot. Cachuma you still aren't able to launch a boat yet. Naciemento is up to about 40% I'd say now. Lopez has filled a bit. San Antonio is also up a bit but not where any of these lakes need to be. I thought it was an El Nino year??

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sageadvice · Mar 15, 2016

That's interesting Steve. I would have thought that you guys would have shared in the bounty of these storms but apparently not so. We still have some Winter and Spring weather to look forward to, hopefully you guys will get yours.

Joey

"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"

Wiszard · Mar 15, 2016

Joey- I checked water levels after I posted and my figures were very generous. We aren't nearly as good as I had thought. We need many more storms with inches of rain dropped to get where we need to be. Glad you guys are filling up your way.

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CAelknuts · Mar 15, 2016

Folsom Lake is letting out more water than they have in years, and the lake should still be at 100% by early June. Lots of the small lakes are full and spilling water.

We needed this badly, and we got it.

sageadvice · Mar 15, 2016

LAST EDITED ON Mar-15-16 AT 11:36PM (MST)[p]CA, glad to hear that Folsom is up. Back in the late 70's i found a cutbank stretch of river just a few blocks west of Highway 99 that i'd fish for steelhead at least a couple times a winter with pretty good success. When she's running strong, she's a dandy river that rivals right up there with many in our state!

On Rivers that have dams already, that are needed and not going away, i'd like to see even more Dams, more dams and/or upgraded Hydro while at it instead of a couple other super mega money ideas some figure to afford and been tossing around. We've the same water holding capacity the last 30 years or so but way more people and homes to service. It's a system that was fine back then but doomed to eventually fall short and fail. We need more reservoirs...and if they had good fish in them, that would be nice too!

Was that a rant? If so, sorry!

Joey

"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"

easymoney · Mar 16, 2016

"Lakes around me haven't come up a whole lot."
Yep they haven't, the lake fill totals give a much better picture of what we have not gotten so far.
San Antonio is at 4% of full.
Nacimiento is at 28%
Santa Margarita is at 13%
Whale Rock is at 35.76%
and Lopez is at 29%
And this is all rain run off no snow amounts.

Stop Global Whining

brdhuntr · Mar 16, 2016

How about Isabella lake, in Kern county.

Homer · Mar 16, 2016

>How about Isabella lake, in Kern
>county.

Isabella is at 50,000 acre feet....lowered capacity is 368,000 acre feet...original capacity is about 540,000 acre feet

Bossbrott · Mar 16, 2016

This is helpful

sageadvice · Mar 16, 2016

LAST EDITED ON Mar-17-16 AT 00:27AM (MST)[p]BB, you da Man, Thanks!!

Looks like, "Our Lakes are up"...in the northern part of our State anyway and i guess i should have qualified. I see on the forecast, 3 more days of rain starting Sunday. We here where i live have way over the normal moisture for March already but we'll take it, pass it along, and hope for a wet spring as well.

I follow the Weather forecasts a lot and have been amazed at just how accurate these guys are these days. Thirty years ago, i think that the weather guys threw darts at a checker board to see if it was going to rain the next day or not. Now, we're getting 10 day forecasts and i'll be darned if they are hardly ever wrong.

Thanks guys!

Joey

"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"

Bossbrott · Mar 16, 2016

There ya go Sage, make a sticky.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES

Paul_Crawford · Mar 17, 2016

Pine Flat: 33%

Success: 36%

Kaweah:31& pc

Longun · Mar 17, 2016

Sage..how about Eagle Lake and Almanor...are they rising?

sageadvice · Mar 17, 2016

LG, Eagle is a mess, water has been extremely low. Far as i know, Pine creek is the only steam that runs into Eagle and it's not much of a stream so with it's poor watershed, i doubt that Eagle has come up very much in the big picture. There is just not that kind of snow yet that's needed to really help Eagle.

Almanor wintered pretty low but i seen it much lower. Right now, the diversion canal aside town, Chester used to flood bad every good water year before the diversion, is running strong and with all the streams and creeks that dump in as well, the lake is filling fast and no doubt will be healthy and in great shape this year.

I talked to a Bud this AM about nearby Butt Lake, his report, It's rising and looking good!

Joey

"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"

canyoncrosser · Mar 17, 2016

Butt Lake?

sageadvice · Mar 17, 2016

Yeah, i think it's properly named Butt Vally Reservoir but we call it Butt Lake, a fairly narrow but longish compound of water that is fed from Butt Creek and a big pipe coming from the depths of Lake Almanor through a powerhouse on the Western side of the lake.

I've had many fine days there and though 7-8 pounders are among my best caught there, there is always potential for much bigger fish.

and you can see Butt's location just south of Almanor...

Joey

Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!

canyoncrosser · Mar 17, 2016

Awesome fish Joey, I guess with a name like that I'd be inclined to release those "brown trout"!
But seriously very nice fish, what methods would you use to catch those?

sageadvice · Mar 17, 2016

CC, those were two were kept of a Dozen or so i caught that day. Caught them using small smelt like patterened rapala right up close to the powerhouse. I use 3-4 bb shot to help get it to cast far and sink fast, all the way almost on the other side of that channel and let the current sweep it down along that far bank. The fish usually take shortly after it gets some depth. Small white or pearl swim baits or small jigs work well there to.

The single fish came as a evening cap to a epic day on that lake. We were trolling 4-5 colors back and forth out in front of the Boat-ramp in about a mile long loop. We must have landed a Dozen or so, lots of 3-5 pounders that spring day, both rainbows and browns. Once i had all those fish, i put on the Biggest Broken Back Rapala that i had in my box and this guy, was bigger than the others but not as big as i had hoped when first saw him, ate it and really made my day.

I like to release too, have done so to countless fish, but i also follow, "catch and release, right into the grease!" lol

Joey

Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!

sageadvice · Mar 18, 2016

I imagine that some folks will take this as good news.

http://www.waterworld.com/articles/...-allocation-to-45-following-march-storms.html

We here are looking at storms Sun-Tues, decent amounts forecast. This storm water might not fill some of the smaller lakes with much smaller watersheds but this coming storm water, whatever it is, is going to go down the Feather, join the Sac to the Delta, to be pumped down south where it is much needed. Mainline to the system, direct to the willing consumer.

Every year i do and scratch off a couple or few projects that i want done on my modest little home up here near Almanor. Putting in lawn in front and the side yard along with some simple landscaping bits, has been on the list since i bought the place. We have plenty of water here, no shortage that i have heard of, yet i'm wondering if putting in a lawn these days is a politically correct thing to do?

Some may think different but i'm rarely politically correct, i'm me! There are a couple other projects to be done so i might bump it back a year, we'll see.

Joey

Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!

oilcan · Mar 18, 2016

Joey,
You have caught some really nice fish over the years.

sageadvice · Mar 18, 2016

Thanks oilcan! I moved here some 32 years ago pretty much just for the fishing and soon got to appreciate all the neat spots on Public Land that surrounds us. The hunting has gone downhill, no news flash there, and the fishing in most cases, ain't what it used to be but neither am i. Nuts for either hunting or fishing, guess i could have done worse.

I still get very excited when watching my line and it makes the slightest twitch... it could be a minnow or a 10 pounder, ya just never know...

Joey

Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!

tylercreek2 · Mar 24, 2016

we were just up at Shasta it is so close to being all the way up to the highest high water mark that its basically full

DW · Mar 25, 2016

Glad you folks are finally gettin some relief! Nice lookin fish sage!

Bossbrott · May 15, 2016

They're full and putting out.

sageadvice · May 15, 2016

Congrats!! What, did catch two with one cast? Smallies? Very nice!! I see the water is right up in the trees.

Joey

Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!