Anyone here from Memphis?

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Just wondering if there were any locals on here that go boating alot. Just got a ski boat and want to find places to go.
 

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Re: Anyone here from Memphis?

Grew up there, graduated from CBC (now CBU), but never boated much, outside of sailing on Sardis Lake. One of the reasons I moved here was better water...
 

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Re: Anyone here from Memphis?

Sardis unfortunately is drained. Been pretty dry around here.
 

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Drained?!! Wow...
 

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Yeah, I think they didn't plan for this bad of a drought when they lowered the lake after winter.
 

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That's a bummer. What about Enid? Dry, too?
 

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Not sure about Enid, haven't heard any reports.
 

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Hey! A Memphrikan!

I'm down here in Hernando (EDIT) -but I do work in Memphis.

I haven't been out all year:( Sardis is indeed low, over twenty feet below norm last time I checked.) You may still be able to launch at Engineers Point on the South side of the levee. That area was dredged out for the new marina a few years ago. The lower lake doesn't usually get too low but it's small and can get crowded fast.

My stepmother is down at Enid right now, I'll try to get some info from her.

Arkabutla is worse. You can just about walk across it right now.

Tunica may be your best bet (pun). The river is low but the Corps dammed up the cut-off a few years ago to keep it from getting too low.

Our neighbors over in AR are having better luck... their lakes are fine, 'cept for Horseshoe. That lake must have a hole in it or something. They're about to spend a bazillion bucks on a re-lift system to pump water back into it!:confused:

No idea about Moon, Flower, Dacus, DeSoto or McKeller but I'd bet they're low too. Been a bad year for us boaters... just don't tell the farmers that!


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Re: Anyone here from Memphis?

Any updates with the latest rain? Or did the ground just soak it up?
 

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Little to no change in MS lakes. The rains are too scattered and too short. :(

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xIIx

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Re: Anyone here from Memphis?

I am from Memphis.

Sardis is lower than the norm but FAR from dried up. I went in March and again last week. Enid looks low as heck. I drove down there one day without my boat just to look at it. Very low.

Local lakes that I know about

Sardis, Lakeview, Enid, The butler, Herb Parson, Pickwick Dam, and Genada Lake.

I've ONlY put my boat in Lakeview and Sardis.
 

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Pickwick now but lived in Collierville most of my life.:eek:

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Re: Anyone here from Memphis?

I'm in Memphis and have been going to Saltillo, TN to boat on the Tennessee River this summer.

It's a clean, slow-moving river...........pretty decent for water sports.
Water level was a little low last weekend, but once we were out of the marina we had no problems.
I assume the boat ramp was OK since you usually hear chatter about it when you meet other boaters on the island beaches.

Anyway, it's a beautiful place and less than two hours away.
 

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Re: Anyone here from Memphis?

If you going to go there..might as well go to Pickwick and jump on the TN river.
 

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Re: Anyone here from Memphis?

im from memphis and usually boat at pickwick
 
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