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THEJOKER
10-10-2008, 08:33 PM
Check in my brothers. I predict we'll have a wet winter and she'll be full by Spring!
DKerns
12-01-2008, 09:44 PM
I hope its full in July!! Our official move date is June 26th. After spending 20 years boating on the Ches. Bay, I am sure I will feel quite confined!!!! Still looking forward to checking it out!
THEJOKER
12-01-2008, 10:10 PM
I hope its full in July!! Our official move date is June 26th. After spending 20 years boating on the Ches. Bay, I am sure I will feel quite confined!!!! Still looking forward to checking it out! Welcome to the area!
DKerns
12-01-2008, 11:06 PM
Welcome to the area!

Thanks Joker. My wife's job is relocating us down there. I am not 100% sold on the move just yet. I get home sick pretty easily and have an awesome group of "boating" freinds here on the Ches. I do like the fact that there are a couple of lakes in the area. I also like being closer to Florida as I have family in Palatka!!!! Look forward to meeting some new faces towards the end of next summer!!!
THEJOKER
12-01-2008, 11:34 PM
Thanks Joker. My wife's job is relocating us down there. I am not 100% sold on the move just yet. I get home sick pretty easily and have an awesome group of "boating" freinds here on the Ches. I do like the fact that there are a couple of lakes in the area. I also like being closer to Florida as I have family in Palatka!!!! Look forward to meeting some new faces towards the end of next summer!!! Hey you'll like it. Great place and regardless of low water I'm on the lake all the time. Plenty to do here. Mountains are close , beach is close and big A is close. Economy is great in many areas.
Out There
12-14-2008, 06:54 PM
Lanier is a great lake with a little water. Well we're up a foot in the right direction. Lets hope it keeps coming!
RumRunner
12-17-2008, 08:44 PM
Check in my brothers. I predict we'll have a wet winter and she'll be full by Spring!


Spring of what year? We're over 19' below full pool right now!
DKerns
12-17-2008, 08:57 PM
Spring of what year? We're over 19' below full pool right now!


We were down there in September checking out the "area" and made a trip across Buford Dam road. It didn't look good then!! I will hope for the best!
:rolleyes:
Out There
12-17-2008, 10:38 PM
You also saw the deep best looking view of the lake. It really looks sorry when you look at anything back in off the main channel. It could fill to full pool but it will take some abnormally high rain fall. Let's hope for the best.
Greg
RumRunner
12-17-2008, 11:16 PM
The one good thing from the lake being down so low is that the traffic is low :)
DKerns
12-18-2008, 09:12 PM
Looks like I will need to find an experienced guide if I hit the water down there next year!!!!!
RumRunner
12-18-2008, 09:58 PM
The nice thing about a lake is once you figure out where everthing is you know where it is... No current
JnT
01-08-2009, 05:48 PM
Ya'll need to come over to Allatoona. I was at the marina yesterday and the lake was up 4 feet from the previous weekend. Full Pool is in our sights when they let it fill back up. Besides only sissies hang at Lanier. We have wild women and banjo music over here.......:)
Jim
RumRunner
01-08-2009, 06:10 PM
Did someone say squeal like a pig???
JnT
01-08-2009, 06:34 PM
Must have been Joker! LOL :D
RumRunner
01-08-2009, 07:12 PM
No comment...

But is anyone going to the Boat show in Atlanta???
THEJOKER
01-08-2009, 08:40 PM
Georgia’s rivers, lakes and streams are polluted. In 2004, nearly 3,000 miles of rivers and streams and 56,000 acres of lakes were recognized as too polluted to be safe for fishing and swimming, including popular recreation areas like Lake Allatoona. Part of the problem is our Environmental Protection Division (EPD) is too underfunded to enforce the clean water laws that are supposed to restrict dangerous levels of pollution.

I'll take a little less water anyday. Oink , oink!
JnT
01-09-2009, 06:28 PM
( Think Of Smokey in the movie Friday) , Don't be bringing up old schitt!
Allatoona is clean and clear.....Just don't drink it. :)
Hope to see ya'll at the show. Looks like Weds. evening for me.
Jim
JnT
01-10-2009, 09:01 PM
Anyone got a lead on a nice pontoon in the 5-9k range?
RumRunner
01-10-2009, 10:16 PM
Just a word of warning to anyone that might go out on Lanier any time in the near future with all the rain we've had here the lake is up a couple of feet (Still too dam low) and there is a lot of floating debris out there.

We were out today for a little while, and there were floating trees, railroad ties, and telephone poles!
Tres
02-17-2009, 10:56 AM
March 10-11th Performance boat courses, Master your skills. www.performanceboatschool.com in Lake Lanier.
THEJOKER
02-17-2009, 04:12 PM
Let me know if you need anything. I have plenty of secure parking , etc.
DKerns
03-08-2009, 09:42 PM
How's the lake level looking???

My wife and I will be down from March 18-21 looking at houses.....Hoping it looks better than it did last Sept!!
RumRunner
05-26-2009, 09:56 PM
How's the lake level looking???

My wife and I will be down from March 18-21 looking at houses.....Hoping it looks better than it did last Sept!!


She's up higher than she's been in years :)

Still about 4' to 5' from full pool, but way better than we've had...
DKerns
05-26-2009, 10:05 PM
She's up higher than she's been in years :)

Still about 4' to 5' from full pool, but way better than we've had...


Looked better when we were down last month!! Looking forward to visiting Lanier and Allantoona!!!
JnT
06-05-2009, 09:14 PM
Just found this. Its on Allatoona but some of the Lanier folks may be interested.
http://www.joyfoundation.org/2009lakepokerrun.html
Bobcat
06-13-2009, 07:42 PM
:seeya:
DKerns
07-12-2009, 11:50 AM
Any Allatoona guys around today??
RumRunner
07-12-2009, 12:49 PM
D,

I'm pretty sure JnT boats up there.

So are you down here now? I was at a bar in Marietta Friday night... Not as young as I think I am some times. The 5 am deal killed me.

Doug
DKerns
07-12-2009, 01:23 PM
RR,

We are here!!! I am actually alot closer to Woodstock/Cherokee County than Marietta. I am going to try my luck on Allatoona today. My first trip out since the motor was put in. We will have to meet up sometime!!!

Dwayne
RumRunner
07-13-2009, 03:59 PM
RR,

We are here!!! I am actually alot closer to Woodstock/Cherokee County than Marietta. I am going to try my luck on Allatoona today. My first trip out since the motor was put in. We will have to meet up sometime!!!

Dwayne

Cool. Yea we will, I'm stupid busy right now. Heading to Canada for a race this weekend, Richmond the following, then Martin Mi, and St. Louis. I'll give you a call.

So how did you like Toona?

Doug
DKerns
07-13-2009, 04:04 PM
Cool. Yea we will, I'm stupid busy right now. Heading to Canada for a race this weekend, Richmond the following, then Martin Mi, and St. Louis. I'll give you a call.

So how did you like Toona?

Doug

Been to most of those tracks........Have fun!!!!

As far as the lake goes, it was "OK"!! We ran around for a little while checking it out. Not used to dealing with thousands of tubers and jet ski's!!!!! Found a couple of the hang out coves. Too much traffic for any speed runs!!!!!!!

Dwayne
JnT
07-18-2009, 05:35 PM
Sent you a PM DKerns
I agree on the traffic. Seems like people enjoy pulling tubes through the narrowest places on the lake. Don't even get me started on the jet skis...
Once school starts it will get better and we boated into November last year. Fall is the best in my opinion. We mostly run a pontoon and hang out down toward Allatoona pass in a cove they call "Flamingo". Occasionally we run the Apache up to Illinois Creek which is the hot spot.
Call me sometime.
Jim
DKerns
07-18-2009, 10:16 PM
Thanks Jim..... I returned your PM

D
THEJOKER
09-21-2009, 03:08 PM
Lake Lanier should be full by the end of the week. I have never seen rain like this! 10 inches in a day!
Brad
09-21-2009, 03:28 PM
Lake Lanier should be full by the end of the week. I have never seen rain like this! 10 inches in a day!
I'm glad to hear that! My folks live in Dahlonega and I visit several times a year. It used to amaze me passing over the bridge in Gainsville. I live on lake Murray is SC and we went through several bad years when thetdropped the watrer to enforce the dam.
Ratickle
09-21-2009, 04:52 PM
Lake Lanier should be full by the end of the week. I have never seen rain like this! 10 inches in a day!

I was watching the lake level site. Going up fast......


Now it'll overflow and flood out everyone.....
Brad
09-21-2009, 08:40 PM
Saw this online, sound terrible
A two-year-old Georgia boy swept from his father's arms Monday was among six people killed by storms pounding the Southeast, and more rain was expected after the historic dumping that also forced drivers to scramble onto the roofs of cars on Atlanta's main artery.
THEJOKER
10-14-2009, 02:00 PM
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/24737/ Full Pool!
THEJOKER
10-14-2009, 02:00 PM
spring of what year? We're over 19' below full pool right now!
haha
RumRunner
10-14-2009, 02:12 PM
She is most certainly full!!!
Ratickle
10-14-2009, 02:54 PM
She is most certainly full!!!

Good to hear. Now probably more flooding....:ack2:
RumRunner
10-14-2009, 02:57 PM
Good to hear. Now probably more flooding....:ack2:

Agreed flooding bad, damage bad, but sometimes you need to thin the heard...


Can't fix stupid!
THEJOKER
10-14-2009, 03:46 PM
" Oh how pretty living next to a creek " haha--- yea right! What are these people thinking buying houses in a flood plane?