06-25-2013, 05:39 AM
I agree 100% on the fact AF. Reservoir does have a huge trout & smallmouth fishery potential if the water level was just kept up at a decent level & in addition when the reservoir is held up the perch do well there too thus making for a good ice fishery. In my opinion if AF Reservoir was one of them reservoirs that was kept full I think it would easily be one of the best fisheries in the NW.
It sickens me how how the Bureau Of Reclamation are so careless when it comes to this reservoir & how some years it gets drained so low (especially in 2007 when it was down to 1% full which really killed off a lot of the monster trout). I know last year not only it got down to 8% full which I was quite upset about like a lot of people were but also the bureau of reclamation was real careless when it comes to conserving water cause around this time of the year they were shooting out about 15,500 cfs of water through the AF dam & were letting so much out they were bypassing some through the spillway too which this went on for like 2 weeks & while this was going on the reservoir was dropping like 3% every 2 days which was totally unnecessary!
Having a meeting like this is a step in the right direction I just hope it'll make enough difference that something gets done like getting a minimum pool requirement set for AF cause there's no excuse why they can't manage to even on drought years keep the reservoir from going below about 15% full or below 250,000 acre feet
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It sickens me how how the Bureau Of Reclamation are so careless when it comes to this reservoir & how some years it gets drained so low (especially in 2007 when it was down to 1% full which really killed off a lot of the monster trout). I know last year not only it got down to 8% full which I was quite upset about like a lot of people were but also the bureau of reclamation was real careless when it comes to conserving water cause around this time of the year they were shooting out about 15,500 cfs of water through the AF dam & were letting so much out they were bypassing some through the spillway too which this went on for like 2 weeks & while this was going on the reservoir was dropping like 3% every 2 days which was totally unnecessary!
Having a meeting like this is a step in the right direction I just hope it'll make enough difference that something gets done like getting a minimum pool requirement set for AF cause there's no excuse why they can't manage to even on drought years keep the reservoir from going below about 15% full or below 250,000 acre feet
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