Chattahoochee

Eagle/Phenix Dam is runnable and has been run. I'd post the video on here but I don't want to encourage anyone else to do it. I ran it when there was just enough water going over to get a clean move off it. The danger is that there are only a few safe landing zones where there are not rocks at the bottom and it's impossible to judge where they are from the top. I had someone on the island below to line me up correctly. We measured it at 22ft. The play spot on river right is good at optimum levels, but very rarely do they run a good level consistently. With the normal release you have to be there to catch the water rising when there is a short interval when the hole is good, but then quickly washes out. At a good level, it's a nice spot where you can spin,cartwheel,blunt, and loop. ( See loop video above). You can predict when the release will start by looking at the usgs gage at 280. The release times generally run in patterns which are apparent in the 7 day graphs. There is a smaller shallow hole, as pictured above under 'cartwheel hole' which is pretty fun in a short boat. The big hole in the middle line, known as the cut bait hole, at the normal release is very trashy and should be avoided.

Van Atkins chattahoocheeoutdoors@charter.net