I live in Teague which is about 8 miles W of Fairfield. I got right at 4 inches today between 3 and 10pm. Just the kind of heavy runoff rain FF needs. It won't fill it up, but it might have brought it up a foot or so if it came down like that in the right places over there.
My source at the park office said it was just about to get out of hand over there before this rain.
Lets hope we get some more soon!

EW

Great now that would make it about 2.5 feet at the loading dock.

Slab, why was it going to get out of hand?

Water was about to get too low to get any kind of trailered boat in the lake...that's what he was meaning. When it gets that low a 14-16 foot jon boat in the bed of a pick-up truck with a 9.9 gas motor would be the ticket.

it's still raining today...supposed to rain all day from the reports

Keep us updated on the rain and if it helps. I have been wanting to go down there but I was not wanting to get the boat down there and mess it up. I was hoping it would rain alot down there. Steve

just talked to a couple of ppl said one of the roads in the park is flooded right now as we speak so it should be filling up a little

its about time...keep the rain coming!!!

Any one know how it's looking????

Yep they told me that, I was going to head out today but I am not sure with the rain.

at least we can launch a little easier..it just stopped raining here. but more is yet to come....daniel

Got another 2 3/4 inches between 10pm last night and 3pm today. That's just under 7 inches in 24 hours. From my past experience with FF, I'm guessing that will bring it up around 1.5-2.0 feet. That should help a little at least for launching. As for the fishing...ask JackieBlue.

Is there a place to see the lake level for Fairfield? It is not on any of the lake level sites I have found? Thanks Steve

I usually call the park office.

It's not on the normal lake level sites, but you can call the park office and they'll have a close estimate. I'll call my buddy that works there and ask him tonight. They got most of the same rain I got here at the house, so there's no doubt it has come up quite a bit.
Our are here around Fairfield just hasn't gotten most of the other rains others have seen this summer. We are way behind on our yearly total.

fished it today lake up looks to me about 2ft. fishing off some but still not to bad. 6 best fish weighed 47lbs on hand scales. 2 bigger ones and 4 smales ones. the two bigger ones 36 37 and 4 smaller ones 22 to 25

Thanks for the report Dobbin, I was going to go out today but I ran behind and I am waiting for the weekend.

Two foot is not bad but still not good for the bigger boats but we'll live...

What types of baits and techniques do you use to catch Reds out of Fairfield.

Thanks

jackieblue aka: Jackie Kennedy 903-603-3793

Does this mean it is up from deadly to just dangerous???

yes the tires of the trailer were on the edge of the dropoff at the ramp. we did not haft to push the boat off as we have had to.
just start like you were fishing for bass and you will catch the reds this time of year. that is how we started catching them. pay attentiton to what when and where you catch them as they will move around just like any other fish in the lake.

i will be out there again this weekend, maybe they will be settled down a bit by then...i'll let yall know how they are doing...daniel

Yes.
The lake is up exactly five inches. That is what the people at the TXU plant said.