Name:   Lifer - Subject:   How high? Date:   4/2/2014 11:38:06 AM

Very rarely is the level maintained at 490 for extended periods.  It will ususally reach it on target as scheduled then drop back to an average of 489 for most of the season.  Your time on the lake will be much more enjoyable if you accept this and look at 489 as full pool and anything above that as a bonus.  In many years it will even drop to 488 or so late in the season if it is a dry summer.  I prefer to enjoy the 489' we do have as opposed to fretting about the 1' we may not.  Actually as the lake gets more and more crowded I enjoy the lower level even more becasue it affords many more opportunities to find a nice soft beach to land at and enjoy hanging with freinds.

This is just my opinion of course based on 55 years of being blessed to be on the best lake east of the Missippii ( and maybe west of also ).