What's the safest route from 121 cut to Lake Dallas cut? I know there are trees down there between them. I usually head toward Twin Trees then bear right to Lake Dallas cut but I wonder if that is a waste of time.

Right now, it is a waste of time - go right to the cut. When the water level drops a couple of feet, stick to your current path, and deal with the few minutes you loose.

http://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/reports/fish.htm

When we're at the normal level, it's all good - when we're low, do what you're doing - there is no better path.

After giving it some more thought, I changed my mind. My recommendation would be to stick with what you're doing now. That is the course I would take if I were driving your boat. Better safe than sorry!

Stump city is unforgiving.

I think the route you're going is the way to go. A couple of minutes saved is not worth tearing up your boat. On rare occasions, I will cut across the middle but only if I'm in a real hurry (like trying to outrun a storm) or the wind is just howling and it's too rough to run my normal route. Never when the lake is below normal pool. Those of us that have been fishing LL a long time remember what it looked like before they raised the lake 8' back in the late 1980's - stump city. There used to be a line of pretty closely spaced buoys running east-west and north-south marking the stumps way back when - anybody remember that? It just makes me too nervous running through there even though a lot of people do it.

In 1996\7 when the lake was down to 507 I took a couple of weekends marking the outline of the forests in the main body of LL with a GPS.

I have that set of waypoints in Garmin format and a simple map that transfers the waypoints to something that you can recognize. I would be more than happy share it with anyone interested. It does not show individual trees, but the outline of the areas where the trees are present.

Drifter,

You sent me that information a while back and it is good. Thanks again. I have some tree lines saved on my GPS from it. I see people blowing right through there when I know from your information that there are trees down there. I wondered if I was being too cautious or if these guys know something I don't.