moxie Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 I have been at this for weeks and been sending emails and heard all their crap excuses and it's still right now a long way from even summer levels !!!! What a joke same crap as usual every year !!!! Parks Canada & Trent Severn water clowns are at it again !!!! I have sent in pics as well !!!! A week & a half ago I was able to walk up and touch the base of the caygeon dam from the downside !!!!!! It's the same crap as usual !!!!!! It's still way below normal and will be Good for you. At least some of us care enough to yell in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singingdog Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 I feel the need to defend the PC guys; I really don't know what they could have done differently. They have had all the dams shut down since the thaw started, trying to hold water back. It seems like a low snowpack, combined with virtually no runoff, has led to the present conditions. Lots of warm, windy days, and very little rain, have meant the snow disappeared without causing much runoff at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted April 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Clearly the dams werent shut down if water levels are so low. I understand its a tough gig, but its pretty sad when we have a 400km waterway, full of dams, with no water in the middle of april. Its not hard to measure snow pack, and look at water levels, then make a decision. There is always problems with the system, what gives? S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 I sounded the alarm back in febuary the levels just kept dropping & dropping for no reason !!! I have had several discussions and emails with parks canada !!! And they said every excuse known to mankind as to why there is no water !!!! Same crap every year !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Cliff Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Fields that are normally under a foot of water this time of the year are dry, roads that are usually flooded out aren't even close to being breached, there just isn't the water available to bring the system back up to where it normally is for this time of year. I expect that droping the water levels so low this winter is also going to have created a massive pan fish kill, years past when they have dropped it in the winter we have seen hundreds wash up just on our shore alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappieperchhunter Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 I expect that droping the water levels so low this winter is also going to have created a massive pan fish kill, There you go ruining my fun Cliff. That's supposed to be my job after we move into the cottage May 1st Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Cliff Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 We have our own way of controling the pan fish levels LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted April 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Scugog was at normal SUMMER levels last night. I was dredging bottom with my main motor getting into myy crappie spot. I did my part on the panfish kill S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bacon Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Are the low water levels limited to just the Kawarthas? Lake Ontario looks low to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillM Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Lake O is low as well, the ramp I usually use is going to be a tough gig this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallie Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Water level at my house is below fall levels, im not sure i can get my boat to and from my dock. It is down 3 feet from where it was this time last year... 3 feet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 (edited) I sounded the alarm back in febuary the levels just kept dropping & dropping for no reason !!! I have had several discussions and emails with parks canada !!! And they said every excuse known to mankind as to why there is no water !!!! Same crap every year !!!! We did the letter writing, petitions and phone calls to PC decades back before there was email. We got all sorts of excuses and explanations. The worst response we got. from PC was that if we did not like the way things were, we should "think about relocating". Edited April 16, 2015 by bigugli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKRISONER Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 reading this stuff makes me shutter, Im going to enjoy the high water on GB while it lasts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Half the spawning beds the walleyes use in the spring are still either dry or barley covered with water !!!! It's only just now at low summer levels very sad !!!! We should all be really pissed off because it never gets any better ..... Parks Canada & Trent Severn together are clueless !!!! I'm fed up with them ...... And the MNR is not really doing much about it !!!! Concerning minimum water flows during the walleye spawn .... As if the walleyes don't have enough problems already ....... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Cliff Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Just got back from Pembroke, there is no snow in the bush at all anywhere between here and there so there won't be any water working it's way down through the system, our only hope is for rain but it doesn't look like there is much of that coming in the next two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Chemong looked to be clear of ice as was Upper Buckhorn...Observed on my way to and back from the pulmonary clinic in P'Boro... Taites Bay still has ice (north shore of Pigeon)... Wasn't close enough to see if the water was any higher...Will try to get down to the shoreline tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirCranksalot Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Good for you. At least some of us care enough to yell in the right direction. Your aim was a bit off when you blamed the prov gov't though!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 I posted these pictures a couple weeks back but things are even worse now. Here's the bridge at Burliegh Falls a year ago and is normal for this time of year. Here's the same place 2 weeks ago and you can see how much lower it is than normal I didn't get a picture but I was just over that bridge an hour ago and where those rapids are in the 2nd picture is basically bare rocks today and about 1/2 the amount of water from 2 weeks ago. I live at Clear Lake 3 miles south of Burliegh Falls and the lake is about 2' lower than normal for this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattaw Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Interesting, just saw stony, it's about half a foot down, but not as bad as expected.. Hopefully we'll get a bunch of rain next week and some water will come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captpierre Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Lew, I'm guessing they are trying to help fill the lakes upstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 NO ITS A FOOT BELOW SUMMER LEVLS IN SOME SPOTS AND WORSE !!!! Sturgeon lake was an inch!!!! Below historic low water mark !!!!! It's insane !!!! Same crap different year Interesting, just saw stony, it's about half a foot down, but not as bad as expected.. Hopefully we'll get a bunch of rain next week and some water will come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 It's not even at the safe navigation levels yet on the graphs at parks canada !!!!!! I'm really suprised those guys can find their own way to work in the morning !!!! It's how clueless they are !!!!! We are atill waiting for the non- existant snow pack to come down from Haliburton !!!! That's one excuse they told me !!!! Hahaha ...... THERE IS NO SNOW OR WATER IN HALIBURTON EITHER !!!!!!! There is NO water Comming from anywhere ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted April 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Nope. We're screwed. Im headed to rice now, hope I can get the boat in! Pray for rain boys and girls. Lots of it! S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Well the only thing slightly positive, everyone can get out and fix their docks before the water comes back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James77 Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Well the only thing slightly positive, everyone can get out and fix their docks before the water comes back. Exactly! We just fixed our dock that had been pooched all last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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