Comments on: Wolf Creek Dam #8 on the Ruh Ro List http://pageonekentucky.com/2008/04/08/wolf-creek-dam-8-on-the-ruh-ro-list/ an informed, savvy take on media & politics in Kentucky Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:26:06 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jeff Noble http://pageonekentucky.com/2008/04/08/wolf-creek-dam-8-on-the-ruh-ro-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4537 Jeff Noble Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:33:01 +0000 http://pageonekentucky.com/2008/04/08/wolf-creek-dam-8-on-the-ruh-ro-list/#comment-4537 Interestingly (if you are a subscriber as I am), this Spring's issue of Kentucky Afield, the official publication of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, contains several references to Lake Cumberland, none with more than a fleeting mention of the ongoing work of the incorrectly-named Wolf Creek Dam on Lake Cumberland, the largest dam east of the Mississippi, and which actually dams the Cumberland River and not Wolf Creek. First there is mention of a release of White Bass reared over in Herrington Lake. Nearly one-fourth of another article has Cumberland's fishing forecast for the year, citing the drop in the level of the water as a good thing, saying it "concentrates the fish" in a given area. Some areas that were "too deep" before, especially for walleye, are now ideal. Bass fishing remains very popular as well. If the repairs to the dam pose a problem downstream, I suppose the fishermen and women along the now more-exposed banks will just ride out the waves to Nashville and beyond. Is this better than arguing over orthography? (For some reason, this idea of fishermen and women riding the waves set loose by the failing of the Wolf Creek Dam brings to mind visions of Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb towards the end of the movie Doctor Strangelove). Interestingly (if you are a subscriber as I am), this Spring’s issue of Kentucky Afield, the official publication of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, contains several references to Lake Cumberland, none with more than a fleeting mention of the ongoing work of the incorrectly-named Wolf Creek Dam on Lake Cumberland, the largest dam east of the Mississippi, and which actually dams the Cumberland River and not Wolf Creek.

First there is mention of a release of White Bass reared over in Herrington Lake. Nearly one-fourth of another article has Cumberland’s fishing forecast for the year, citing the drop in the level of the water as a good thing, saying it “concentrates the fish” in a given area. Some areas that were “too deep” before, especially for walleye, are now ideal. Bass fishing remains very popular as well.

If the repairs to the dam pose a problem downstream, I suppose the fishermen and women along the now more-exposed banks will just ride out the waves to Nashville and beyond.

Is this better than arguing over orthography?

(For some reason, this idea of fishermen and women riding the waves set loose by the failing of the Wolf Creek Dam brings to mind visions of Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb towards the end of the movie Doctor Strangelove).

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