threeCs Loc: Allen Texas

Lake is about 7 feet above normal level and there fore up on the parking lots to all the parks and ramps except one. I ventured out today to the marina to remove the side curtains from my pontoon and drown a few minnows. The marina owner always operates a shuttle boat when parking lot is unusable. When I got there I would have had to wait about an hour for a operator of the shuttle. I put on my hip waders and went in. I knew the water was about 18 inches deep on the parking lot. There is a dip in the road leading to the parking lot and as I waded in, I found the water was mid thigh for 50 or 60 feet due to dip in road. I got one thing accomplished I started the day out to do. Got the side curtains off, folded and stored but drew a dud on the second task. Few nibbles, lost a couple but no catches. As a general rule fishing at the dock will produce at least a few crappie and channel cats but not today. Shuttle operator told me that no one he had given rides to had caught anything. Probably will try again tomorrow, can't let the minnows go to waste.

Egghead

Must be getting a bunch of rain huh ,??? Might just try fishing in the parking lot.lol. good luck tomorrow. Pictures will be nice.

threeCs Loc: Allen Texas

top picture is road approaching parking lot and bottom picture is about half way to ramp entrance to marina.

we have had the wettest spring on record and more rain fore cast for the next few days.

smitty Loc: maine

come july you'll be glad you got all that rain
used to keep my boat at eastfork marina on lavon
thanksgiving day about 12 years ago took the family up to the lake for a 'walk in the lake'. boat was out of the water as the lake was 17 ft below conservation level,,,gate was locked to marina so drove around other side ofthe inlet and walked thru the brush to where lake should have been... dry cracked mud [we called it black gumbo in north tx] ... the marina was bone dry, walked around past the barrier jetty and there was the lake
about 200 yards out, way past boat ramp. VERY VERY creepy. thousands of empt bottles and cans ,the old kind with the pull off tabs, couple ghetto blasters pair o binocs[one side water logged other side intact] and all kinds of stuff, probably a lot of rods and tkl boxes were out there but scavengers got them.
theres an old tx quip about a guy goin up to the lake to mow the grass around his boa
wonder if any stories about lake bein flooded

smitty Loc: maine

ps

never took the boat out march or april
crappie were under the docks

threeCs Loc: Allen Texas

My boat was at east fork at same time. Since then we have had water on parking lot twice. My boat is in slip D16

GlsJr40 Loc: Dallas, Tx.

Today (4/2/20) Lavon is listed as 8.32' high. Ray Hubbard is listed as 0.03' high. From my experience, the engineers will hold the water in Lavon until Hubbard gets a little low, and then they'll pass the water to Hubbard. And it seems Hubbard will get water to maintain a comfortable near constant level, even if they drain Lavon drastically low. I've been fishing at Lavon for over 30 years, and the highs and lows seem to be getting greater and more often.

threeCs Loc: Allen Texas

Today 4/2/2020 according to the corps of engr they are releasing 4681 cfs from Lavon and maybe Hubbard is just passing it through. But yes they play games with Lavon and Hubbard.

I was at the Lake today for about four hours but it only produced one small crappie. Others were only catching similar crappie. Don't know if the lake level has caused things to change but the dock usually produces better fish than that.

Will add catch of the day, that made my wife laugh.