Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/17/2020 8:17:25 PM

Level look here to stay, plan accordingly 

Name:	Sundial19 -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 11:07:59 AM

????

Name:	lakngulf -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 11:43:29 AM

I bet the Keepers of the Waters are wishing we still had 10 foot draw down in wintertime!!  They could use that cubic space

Name:	ChrisCraft -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 2:03:13 PM

Look out now. You'll get tarred & feathered here for voicing that opinion. 

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 2:08:35 PM

Tar and feathers is too good for violators 

Name:	ChrisCraft -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 5:31:05 PM

Violators? 

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 6:08:45 PM

It was a joke.  Wound a bit too tight?  Relax.

Name:	ChrisCraft -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 9:15:52 PM

Hard to relax when massive changes are made that dictate lake life negatively.  Money rules but nature will always win.

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 9:26:43 PM

I've been on lake Martin since 1985 when I bought my Jim Walter cabin and suffered through drought years when winter water was released to meet the old rules.  Summer without water is awful.  Studies determined the best resultion between flood control and recreation which was adopted last license renewal and now governs the lake levels.  

not sure of your beef with the levels but we fought for a rational solution.  There are other lakes that don't drop their level or lakes that will drain to meet your needs. Please find a lake that meets your needs and go.  Later.  

Name:	ChrisCraft -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 9:50:48 PM

Been here since '67 if that matters. Truth really is hard to take ain't it? With age comes wisdom. If you only knew...

Name:	ChrisCraft -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 9:54:21 PM

Oh...and "other" lakes aren't major flood control lakes for the watershed. 

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 9:54:40 PM

So what is your beef.  1967 is your birth year or ?....  what is your problem other than just bit*hing against life. 

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 10:02:14 PM

What is your beef?  I've asked many times and yes I enjoyed the lake back to 1967.  So spill your anger....

Name:	ChrisCraft -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 10:02:29 PM

You're funny.

Name:	PTClakefan -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 10:51:49 PM

I think Chris Craft is staunch supporter of a (much) lower winter pool level for LM.  If you go back and read a thread from almost exactly this time last year entitled "watch the water level over the next several days" you will see what I mean.  It doesn't make him right or wrong--just one person's opinion, like yours and mine.  I personally think that a higher level will be beneficial for the lake area in the long run, and I think APCO can manage these (heavy rain) situations appropriately, just like they did last year at this time.  However, we do know there is very little they can do under extreme drought conditions.  Regardless of what either of us think, FERC has mandated that this is what the winter water level will be until the next licensing term comes around.

I do have to add that I find it a bit ironic that a person whose user ID is synonymous with very large, expensive boats would be advocating for a much lower lake water level.  But hey, to each thier own.

Name:	BAJ -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 11:06:04 PM

Chris Craft has been on the lake long enough to remember when that was one of the more popular boats on the lake... and they were anything but big or luxurious, especially by today's standards. 

Name:	PTClakefan -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/18/2020 11:40:25 PM

Well, I didn't mean to ruffle anyone's feathers or get into a big debate, but if you do a search on boattrader.com or similar boat sale websites, you will not find any cheap, small-lake type  "Chris Craft" boats for sale.  Are you sure you didn't mean "Alumacraft" boats?

Name:	BRRick -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/19/2020 9:01:57 AM

I was on a TVA lake for 9 years.  The TVA lowers their lakes 22' ostensibly for flood control.  When I first bought my house in 2007 they started lowering in Sept of each year.  In 2011 they started lower on August 1st, so by Labor Day my dock was dry.  That's why I am now on Lake Martin.  If you are worried about flood control move to any TVA lake, they have about 35 lakes in 5 states to choose from.

Name:	F1Fan -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/19/2020 9:29:48 AM

To quote the fellow who used to write the closing pieces for Lake Martin Magazine; "Everyone wants the lake to stay the same as whenever they first got here."

Pretty accurate usually.

Name:	realfast64 -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/19/2020 10:47:38 AM

  Your so right nature always wins!!  Been on Lake martin since 1963 seen a LOT more full years than low/drought years and the drought years were interesting when i got my feet muddy!! Heck in 07 i found two pistols for real when it got so low!  don't freek out they were water pistols. lol 

Name:	BAJ -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/20/2020 5:38:29 PM

I meant ChrisCraft. And remember, he has been on the lake since 1967; that 60's and early 70s era is what I was referencing. The most popular model on the lake that I remember was not a big boat but was a bit wider than most; white with red and blue trim. They were great little runabouts that could comfortably hold more people than the average boat of the day.

I can't speak for ChrisCraft (the poster) and say that he has the same boat in mind that I do; there were several models, even back then. But that's the one I remember most. I wouldn't say that a majority of the baots on the lake were that make and model, but there were a lot of them.

Name:	BAJ -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/20/2020 5:56:34 PM

That was me. But, I'm not sure that I wrote that particular phrase. I believe that was part of the "apology" that was included at the end of the last article I ever wrote for Lake Martin Living. The editors and publishers would have liked everyone to believe that I wrote the "apology" (after all, they signed my name to it) but people who knew me saw through their BS right away.

When they printed that -- after promising me that they wouldn't --I severed ties with them.

Name:	F1Fan -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/24/2020 9:40:00 AM

I remember that. Sorry I couldn't recall your name last week. Talking with the wife this weekend she rattled it off right away. Glad to see you're still around.

Name:	Aardvark -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/24/2020 1:29:13 PM

This is slightly off topic, but I am in favor of 10 foot or more drawdowns...for lakes that don't have them.  I recently read an article by someone complaining about the creeks in Middle Pond being silted in so bad that access is impossible.  I have seen similar complaints about this happening in other lakes, especially Lake Mitchell, where siltation in Hatchett Creek threatens one of the few walleye fisheries in the state(yes, they are native).  Martin does not have that problem because of the drawdowns.  If you go to the back of any creek, you will find a channel.  The silted in areas are at the 480 level.  I wonder what would happen if lakes like Jordan were drawn down, even for one winter.  Would that be enough to let the creeks flush out decades of built up sediment and form new creek channels?  If that was done periodically, would that keep more of the creeks open?  Would APCo go along with it?

Name:	Aardvark -	Reply
Subject:	Forecast of 4” over next 10 days
Date:	2/24/2020 1:36:05 PM

Actually, I would love to see the lake go down to 2007 levels so that I could take a front end loader and move all of the sand that has washed down to the 480 level over the years back onto the lot, and collect some big rocks that I could not move last time.