Draining Hopatcong- any truth ?

[AndyS]

Saw this on another site, I wonder if it is true.

"I was fishing below the Hopatcong dam yesterday. River is full of hybrids and muskies. Some of them looked pretty beat up..."

[Wilson]

Christie (the gov.) was saying that they were in fact lowering the lake to increase floodwater holding capacity.
Then they are going to let it rise to help with flooding down stream.

[jimmythegreek]

partially true andy........they did open up the damn to let some additional water out, but I went by there on my way home sat morn and talked to some guys fishin the musky after Laurie at Dows told me about the water level change. They didnt see or hear of anything in the river. I do know for a fact that when we get big storms and high water they do go over the damn into the musky lake. Years ago my buddy was nailing hybrids out back of the lake like crazy, and they prob went down as yearlings in the current and grew up in the weedy musky. If anything is actually in there stuck between pools after this rain its gonna be right into the lake, maybe it'll be actually good to fish next year LOL........

[Thinman]

I saw Christie saying they were lowering Pompton Lake 5 feet. Looks like only 3 feet down so far:

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/uv/?site_no=01387998&PARA_cd=00060;

[frugalfisherman]

I think they are lowering all the reservoirs.

[anthrax2244]

Speedwell Lake in Morristown has been emptied, no water is flowing over the falls, only a trickle of water moving through what was the lake.....I drove by it last night, I thought I was hallucinating, I wonder if it will still be stocked during the winter stocking??