Update 11/15/08 Saturday, Nov 15, 2008 by Ron
Cold and windy with some light snow showers…… a perfect season opener. There are definitely some decent deer being taken today. Pictures on our website. Remember, you can’t cross State Park land to get to Corp land this year. They ARE enforcing it!! Also, the law says you can’t leave a stand unattended on Corp land, which means you aren’t supposed to put it out the night before. There is a fair amount of orange in the woods so please be sure of where your bullet will go before pulling the trigger. We want you all to get home safe and sound. It is supposed to be cold pretty much through the rest of the season by the sounds of it. Talk about different, last year it was 80 on the opener.—- As far as fishing goes, it will be a bit chilly on the water but I would think the crappie are still biting when you find them. We have had several people come in and tell us the channel cats are hitting pretty good also, and with the lake level creeping up I would expect it to stay that way. Shad seems to be the bait of choice right now. We had some bass fishermen in this past week and they were quite pleased with the catches they had. They were using spinnerbaits. The water temp is about 50, the level is just over 607 and the water seems to be about it’s normal clarity. I did not see anything unusual as far as color this morning. We got .5″ of rain overnight so I expect the level to rise a bit more.
