Vacation help - Tennessee local input

[MJHSupra]

How is water depth at the other 3 in late June - July? I know Norris is 80-300ft deep. Safe to assume the other 3 are similar?

We boat in 10-30ft in Ohio, so really not an issue but curious. Only concern would be water depth at the shoreline. Rental house at Cherokee is shown at low season and still seemed good. Only real concern at Norris is the floating trees.

Lastly, we missed the meet-up 2 yrs ago by a couple days. I think some of the people here saw me drive over the jumping bridge on the last day of the event. We were just getting there. If there is a meet up at Norris the same wewk we go, that might keep us at Norris. I would like to make one of these at some point.

In June and July all the lake are at full pool, so not really issues in the main channels. Cherokee and Douglas would have more shallow spots cruising close to coves or points in the lake vs Dale Hollow. Douglas has some flat-spots where the water can change very fast, you might be cruising in 40-50', get into a wide open cove, then it drops to 10-15' and that whole area is only that deep.

Per the trees, that can be an issue on any TN lake if we get a lot of summer rain. Some seasons are worse than others. In the spring (Mar-Apr-May), Norris can get really bad for weeks b/c the water level is rising 20'. Douglas rises >40' in the spring, so that can get bad until everything settles down in the summer. Cherokee is probably 25-30', but I've never been on there in the spring. I'm not sure about Dale Hollow in the spring, but that lake is deep, thus why the smallmouth bass fishing is so good.

Cherokee and Douglas are the same size, but most of Cherokee is a longer open stretch of open water. Where Douglas has more twists/turns, so that might appear bigger. Cherokee has some islands in the lake, so one needs to be cautions around those.