One of my favorite spots to fish is all jacked up and I have no clue how to fish it now. Its a fairly large lake with a powerplant dam on the one end. Well the dam went down and now there doing maintance on it. Well because of this the lake is now super high like 6ft more then normal during normal levels. There's a point I used to fish by climbing the wall at the plant but now its all blocked off with barbed wire and I can't get to it. Almost all the bank fishing spots are underwater. Plus they have added some sort of dye to the water it seams because down by the plant the water is stained like hunter green kinda blueish all the plants and rocks are this funky color and there's no fish anywhere. This used to be a real hotspot for me the cove and point by the dam now its like fishing a chemical waste. The rest of the lake seems fine other then the high water levels. On the good side boaters can launch easier now because the ramp used to be a rea***rom water levels.

Unless you have a boat or a raft you probably will have to change fishing locations until the power plant fires up.

The fish are looking for cleaner water with more oxygen.

I would suspect they are deep and move back shallow when the water clears up.

Yup I'm boatless there's a creek channel I can fish that seems to be decent but this lake is crazy deep J francho came out and fished it and we were 3 ft off the bank and in 45+ft of water. Usually this lake has a lot of pads and grass mats but this year there's almost none the creek has the best vegitation iv found from the bank

Is this the place we went? If so, that sucks. You sure the dye isn't just a bloom? High water, I look for newly submerged brush - bass usually go there, since its the best cover located at the same depth they were before the high water. If you can look at the lake in a way that puts your past catches in the new shallows, then I think you'll find them.

John it is the same place we went so far my only luck has been that creek where the bridge was specificly that pvc pipe I pulled the pike and bass out of. Maybe the dye is bloom I'm not sure iv never seen it befor and its only on the end by the dam and along that last bank we hit. Iv hit that same stretch of bank also and befor the construction I was nailing them now its bare not even blue gill.

Maybe the dye is something they are using to look for leaks in the dam? If so, I'm fairly certain with as tight as environmental controls are these days, it is something that won't hurt fish.