No they are not. Those lanes were created long after the lake was filled. The lanes that are currently marked are good when the lake is at full pool but not when it is as low as it is now.

Guy,

I fished the lake when it was new and first filled but that has been a while. From memory, above 515 East and north of 2946 the lanes were cut before the lake was full. The buoys were not there but the lanes were.

All the buoys marking the lanes south of the 515 bridges were set about ten years (or so) ago when the lake was close to full pool if my memory serves me correctly. I have hit stumps running from buoy to buoy when the lake was 4 feet low. I am sure with the lake being 8 feet low, there are many dangers lurking just beneath.

When I am on the lake, I run the paths from memory that I have always run with not much regard for the buoys. That makes me really dangerous because I "think" I know where I am going.

If you are running into or out of Little Caney you need to be really careful. I was running in there on Sat am and hit a stump in the area of the orange cone in the middle of the run.

I have been through there well over a 1000 times and I had just told my guys every time the lake gets lower this spot scares me a bit. No longer than I said it we hit one.

Did not do any damage but it did stop up my water pick up with wood. I idled back through on the way out and there are several I spotted using my SI that are very close to surfacing also. Please be careful.

Good post Marc. I've been watching guys run the gauntlet in there and cringe every time. I've idled that enough to know there is no clear straight path through that middle section from there on up to right past that second pipeline at this level. I see guys who make it but no way I'm doing it.

The lake is gonna claim a lot of lower units and damaged hulls this year. It's starting to effect guides who know the lake a lot better than I do. The one in front of moccasin in the boat lane got a friend of mine a couple weeks ago. I must have had a guardian angel telling me to take it off plane early running into Chaney last week, I was way way out, where I would always normally run. I hit one idling that brought the boat to a complete stop. 43' of water. N 32degrees 48.096'
W 95degrees 33.002' . Now I know there's a ton at the mouth but I was out there a good ways from the ones most of us know about.

Good post Marc. I've been watching guys run the gauntlet in there and cringe every time. I've idled that enough to know there is no clear straight path through that middle section from there on up to right past that second pipeline at this level. I see guys who make it but no way I'm doing it.

The lake is gonna claim a lot of lower units and damaged hulls this year. It's starting to effect guides who know the lake a lot better than I do. The one in front of moccasin in the boat lane got a friend of mine a couple weeks ago. I must have had a guardian angel telling me to take it off plane early running into Chaney last week, I was way way out, where I would always normally run. I hit one idling that brought the boat to a complete stop. 43' of water. N 32degrees 48.096'
W 95degrees 33.002' . Now I know there's a ton at the mouth but I was out there a good ways from the ones most of us know about.

Saw a smaller one just off a buoy in Birch as well. Its maybe 10-15' from the bouy.See boats running right by it a lot. Hell I have done it a 1000 times till I noticed it the other day. I marked it but cannot recall what buoy it was. I will write the coordinates down and post.