Lake Hefner

[rockchalk06]

Drove by today after picking the dog up from the vet. Dry as hell. All 3 docks are sitting on dry land. I pretty much think Henfer is done for, for many years to come. I can't see how it can bounce back after so many years of drought

[rockchalk06]

I just noticed this post I made from April. Funny thing is less than 30 days later, almost 20 inches of rain in May alone, has the Lake way above normal levels.

[Pferox]

Isn't it amazing how lakes will recover quickly?  Now it might take a little longer for the fish to though.

[rockchalk06]

Isn't it amazing how lakes will recover quickly?  Now it might take a little longer for the fish to though.

Agreed. The wire has been pretty quiet about anything decent being caught lately. It hit over a hundred today and my motivation did too. I've got 3 days off coming up to try again.

[Pferox]

In Florida, around 2000 or so, the were in a severe drought.  There was this one area in particular that was so bad that water wells were drying up.  A lake in the middle of this was so bad that everybody was using it as a road to cut across to get to the houses on the other side.

One week it finally started raining and in no time that lake was so full it was ready to flood.  We started doing fish sampling with a spinnerbait.    Couldn't buy a bite.  By the next fall, there were almost keeper sized bass in it.

That lake might have had help from the neighborhood, but still, that was an amazing come back to me.