Buckhorn dam high water pics !!

[fishindevil]

Was going through buckhorn yesterday and stopped at the dam to see the water !!!! Man what a sight it sounded like thunder !!!!! Check it out !!! the big waves in the center looked to be about 7ft tall all gates were wide open !!!!!!

[porkpie]

Yowza.... Well, it's a good while till opener yet!

[Headhunter]

Nice Pickereye chop there!

That's alot of water!

HH

[oldphart]

~~~~Check out Reach Marnia web cam as of this morning

[lew]

Great pictures Shaun, I crossed over that bridge a few days ago and could hear the roar of the water.

 

If you don't mind, I'll add a few pictures I took yesterday in Lakefield, a few lakes downstream from Buckhorn.

 

This is the Lakefield dam at the north end of the Ottonabee River where it flows south from Lake Katchawanooka .

 

 

 

Most the water from the Kawartha Lakes has to pass down this narrow channel all the way to Rice Lake. I think the guys looking after the system do a pretty good job of controlling the flooding.

 

These waves are prolly 5' high.

 

 

Here's a couple osprey sitting 30' above the rapids wishing all the noise from the rushing water would end.

 

 

I took this picture of the Youngs Point lock last Sunday showing how high the water was

 

 

Same lock yesterday but now the water is another foot higher and is up over top of the concrete sidewalks.

 

 

I've been around this river 40 years and don't recall the water level being this high before.

Edited April 26, 2013 by lew

[young_one]

Schools of pickereyes are all I see.

[fishindevil]

thanks for adding those pics lew,it sure is amazing all the water this year thats for sure,and downstream south of peterbourough is gonna be getting it soon they said,hastings and places like that are going to be hit hard they say....

[Joey]

Wow, that is alot of water!!!

[Kawartha Kev]

Great pics Fishindevil I know those waters well. I have a cottage on the lower Buckhorn lake about half way down the lake guess I won't be fishing around there for a while it is a sanctuary anyways so it doesn't open until a couple weeks after the walleye opener so hopefully it will calm down by then.

 

Kawartha Kev

 

Looks like the water level has dropped a bit from yesterday as the picture from Reach Harbour is showing the some of the small docks on the right side of the picture just floating on top of the water and yesterday they were submerged.

Edited April 27, 2013 by Kawartha Kev

[Sharkbait22]

Hey Lew, walk over to the trestle bridge and on river right just upstream you can see lots of walleye.