When the rain finally pours down in Georgia, people always wish for it to stop. I admit, Georgia’s lakes are hurting pretty bad, but some of them fill up so fast, it’s almost hard to believe. I’ve seen lake Allatoon go from 20 feet down to over 10 foot over flood stage in just a month or two. Then they hurry up and drain it down too low for the summer.
The only decent lake in Georgia is Lake Oconee, which stays pretty steady year round. In extreme drought years they have lowered it by 4 foot one year. That made for the best fishing the next year, because of all the weeds and brush that grew up on the bare shores. So far this year they have only lowered it 2.5 feet during the drought. For one thing, it’s a pump back resevoir and it varies each day like a tidal system during the week when the dam is operating. That’s also when the fish bite best, making fishing during the weekends horrible.
They need to build some more dams in north Georgia and build some pipelines to Atlanta. I went a week without water in Savannah when Hurricane David hit in 1978, and that wasn’t much fun either.
I hope you’re right about the lake’s recovery...
There is a high probability we will be moving back home soon, and I’d love to locate on one of the more remote northern fingers of Lake Lanier.