Current: 358.11
Difference: 2.77 m
Lake Level: Still 9.09 feet down - No change!
I was looking through my pictures for past trips and I think back in 1999 or 2000 Cabonga was around this depth once. I recall meeting this retired guy from South Carolina by the name of Lou who drove up every year and spent a couple of weeks at DHL and had a chart of the lake water depth spanning multiple years. Of course his gripe with the low water was that it was harder to fish but from what we saw when we were there, while we got skunked a few days, when we were catching Walleyes, we were catching Walleyes!
I think Cabonga has definitely turned the corner as a Walleye fishery because Walleye fishing is getting better and better now. Just look at all the big Walleyes being caught at DHL this past year as proof in the pudding. I wonder if competition for forage fish is so fierce now that the Walleye populations are out pacing pike reproduction and that is why the pike fishery is in a state of decline. While we weren't necessarily fishing for pike we were amazed at how few we caught this trip.
I might have mentioned this last week but I thought I would show you some examples of what 2 feet down would sort of look like. Going to Stern's pass, you have to pass through this tight channel that I call the Water Falls. In the picture below, this is in 3 feet of water. Now imagine this section 2 feet shallower! Yikes!
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