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Flipper
Joined: 21 May 2010
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 Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 12:25 pm Post subject: CT river vs Holyoke Dam |
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Is it just me or has the river been low for the past 2 striper seasons? I live in Enfield, but fish mostly in Windsor. It seems the river has been higher in August than it has been in May. Yesterday, I had a hard time even finding water deeper than 5 ft and most of it was 2-3ft. I know this stretch of the river well, but the water is just too low. It seemed like in the middle of the striper season last year, the water went down and the fish disappeared.
I have heard that Holyoke closes the dam just before the weekends to draw the water up for recreational purposes on their side. What about the effect it has downstream? Am I the only one that finds this disturbing? |
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Rivernut
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:25 am Post subject: |
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A new system was installed a few years ago to control spillage. They replaced the flashboards with an inflatable / deflateable bladder. They shut the flow off easier and more frequently so the can make more money on water passing through the turbines.
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Rivernut
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:28 am Post subject: |
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We also have that global warming thing going on so the snow melt is happening weeks earlier and the high water no longer coincides with the later part of the striper fishing. Go earlier, we get hundreds in march and April when most people have no clue that they are even in the river yet!
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Bass Addict
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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lol at global warming....
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Sorry honey, looks like we will be late again due to motor problems.
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Rivernut
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Oops! A Republican...it's warmer because god is hugging us closer with his greenhouse gasses that he put here 5,000 years ago when he made the Earth. Amen.
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chumley
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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LMAO.............
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Bass Addict
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Sorry honey, looks like we will be late again due to motor problems.
Justin
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Johnny Skeeter
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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Rivernut is a smart dude and knows his stuff.....
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cthonkerheaven
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| who doesn't believe in global warming? theres to many facts and data to back it up, go look at diagrams, satelite pictures hmmmmm |
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Bass Addict
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 11:49 am Post subject: |
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lets keep the discussion about fishing.
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Johnny Skeeter
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I agree..however rivernut does know his stuff i believe he is a fisheries guy in mass or something like that...
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Rivernut
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 4:21 am Post subject: |
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I worked as a fisheries biologist at the Holyoke Dam.
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