Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Maybe one of those fly-bys over the lake bed caught ole Fred in a compromising position.

Ernie wrote:

Interesting development, Dan Turlik just reported that Fred Jennings (GM) resigned from Loudoun water on Friday. He was the boss. I wonder what's up with that?

I drove by there today and reminded myself that they were supposed to start the stakeholders meetings in January. They are late. I will send message to Sup. Williams.

Indeed Fred is gone, I want to stay positive on his replacement.  In more bad news, a huge ally of ours, Sup. Williams will not be running for the chairman position.  My one time attorney Charles King will however, which is bad news.  Nice guy, but to say he does not have his house in order is an understatement.  Janet Clarke is also bowing out.

We will need to work closely with the new supervisors to keep the momentum.

dan wrote:

Indeed Fred is gone, I want to stay positive on his replacement.  In more bad news, a huge ally of ours, Sup. Williams will not be running for the chairman position.  My one time attorney Charles King will however, which is bad news.  Nice guy, but to say he does not have his house in order is an understatement.  Janet Clarke is also bowing out.

We will need to work closely with the new supervisors to keep the momentum.

Agree about Shawn...thanks for the update. We have work to do. And we have not yet been contacted for the Stakeholders meetings but I am sure the Jennings resignation put that back a ways.

It is a cold day in hell gentlemen.... the reservoir is going to be opened back up this SUMMER!!!!

http://www.loudounwater.org/blog/defaul … ;blogid=72

June 1 2015!!!!

It closes again in fall, but this is HUGE HUGE HUGE.

Woohoo! Looks like I know what I'm doing this summer.

That's great news indeed! Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!

VDGIF will try to get in there in May and assess the fish population that remains....more later.

Awesome!

So with the draw down, do you really believe they'll be fishing?  I think it'll take atleast a couple years for the fishing to get anything close to decent.

The reservoir is full right now unless the picture of it frozen over posted on the Leesburg Today site is old.  It was probably quite full before it ever got really cold.  I think the most likely loss due to cold would be the gizzard shad, but that would be a good thing.  I think there are too many big ones.

I think the biggest loss would be crayfish that didn't move with the water.  Though that might actually help to catch fish.

Last edited by T. (Mar-09-15 7:26PM)

Live report from the LoCoWater Board meeting.

Dan, Bob and I got to speak to the LoCoWater board today and thanked them for reopening of the res. It will be for 2 seasons and it will close again for needed repairs.

NVRPA will manage it temporarily and it is expected that they will do so long term.

There will be stakeholder meetings and I expect that when it is all said and done, we will have a much better place than what we had before.

Stay tuned.

Osprey wrote:

Hope they won't be draining it again for their repairs

They will but we already knew that. It will be interesting to learn what is there once Odenkirk shocks it in May. If i can be there for that, i will!

I talked to John Odenkirk and his concern is draw-down vs drain. Big difference. According to one of the engineers we talked to yesterday, there was a fairly big pool of @8' of water still in place before it started to fill in again. May electroshocking will tell us the "rest of the story".

Regardless, that place will  be a prize if all goes to plan.