Tellico

I was talking with Mike Lewis (Louie on BT) today. Recently there has been some disagreement about runnable levels on the Tellico. For a long time the conventional wisdon was that 1.7 on the gauge was about minimum. However more and more people have been reporting good runs down to 1.3 and even lower.

Mike, who has been running the Tellico for more than 20 years and did a Tennessee Outdoor Life TV show on the river, went to see if he could figure what had happened. He says that the river bed under the gauge has gotten scoured out and, relyng on some of his long time water marks, he thinks that what was 1.7 is now about 1.3.

This means that the river is runnable lower than many of us generally thought. If you like the Tellico then you might want to try it down to the 1.3 range, or, for my money, even lower. Please report you runs and levels. Chris Kelly