Any idea when the water level at Lake Draper will be restored? I know they had dropped the water level to work on the spillway, but I'm getting anxious for crappie fishing season.
I heard at the begining of last year that it would be two years, so it is supposed to be good to go next year..
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I had heard 2012 also.. I believe the repair work is being done on the water line from Atoka not the spillway...
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i talked to a buddy that fishs there and he said 3 more years.
I wonder how this drop in water is affecting the Crappie spawning cycle? It seems that the water is well below their normal nesting areas.
At the duck blind drawing this year they said they would "look" at it again in 2012. But it was so dry the last several months that it is probably behind schedule.
that is one deep lake,,i have not been there since they drained it down..
years ago back in the 80's it was 105 feet deep by the tower that sticks out from the dam..and a bunch of the lake measured 85 feet deep...that puts it around 3 times deeper than dirtybird....last year cruising overholser in the boat the deepest spot i found was 13 feet..
i think the crappies should still have a few places to spawn... used to catch lots of cats and sandbass in draper,,but it seemed to just keep going down hill since the 80's...or maybe i just aint fishing it enough
years ago back in the 80's it was 105 feet deep by the tower that sticks out from the dam..and a bunch of the lake measured 85 feet deep...that puts it around 3 times deeper than dirtybird....last year cruising overholser in the boat the deepest spot i found was 13 feet..
i think the crappies should still have a few places to spawn... used to catch lots of cats and sandbass in draper,,but it seemed to just keep going down hill since the 80's...or maybe i just aint fishing it enough
Overholser is almost totally silted in. I was told that a sand company offered to dredge it out just for the sand, and that the city said it would cost them, I think, fifty cents a yard. The "sandpipers" supposedly told the city to "pound sand" and it never happened. I think this goes back to the late 70s or early 80s.
There was speculation that the city was afraid of the old dam, and did not want a much larger volume of water going down the river should the dam fail, but this was all at the rumor level and I was never able to confirm it.
Hefner is pretty deep in spots, but Overholser will get you stuck on a sand flat if you aren't careful. An elderly guy once told me he had seen Overholser being built, and that it was 75 feet or so over much of its area. I kind of doubt that, but the river has brought in lots and lots of silt/sand over the many years of the lake's life.
About Draper, I too heard that it was going to be 'way down for several years. CB
