Not a whole lot has changed in the past week here in southwest Missouri except a little rain on Saturday. Well, a lot of rain. Monett is cleaning up after local flooding, which is a town not too far down the road. Looking on our lake level page - SPA's Generation Site - I see that our area lakes rose from six inches to two feet. Taneycomo officials ran water all day Saturday and into the night, which turned out to be a huge blessing to those who fished Sunday. The rain washed muddy water and trash into the lake from creeks in the upper end, but the generation moved it on down lake. Sunday morning we had nice clear water greeting us, and fishing was pretty fulfilling for our anglers here.
Table Rock and Beaver lakes came up about six inches which was nothing to be alarmed about. We should not see any change in generation patterns this week because of the rains. But with more rain in the forecast, you never know what may happen.
Today's generation, Monday, usually dictates what we MIGHT see the rest of the week. The Southwest Power Administration chart reported no water would run until late this afternoon -- but nothing doing. One unit was running early and another unit was added about noon. Right now there are at least two units running. One nice thing about this hard generation is that it will clean out the lake a bit. So it's hard to say what the generation will be the rest of the week.
This morning Guide Bill Babler reported catching a lot of rainbows drifting from Fall Creek down to Trout Hollow using night crawlers. His clients caught their limits early and then caught and released the rest of the morning. Bill said their rainbows were good quality and fought hard. So if the water is running, this technique would be worth a try.
Yesterday, there was no current all morning. Guides reported doing very well using small micro jigs in tan or olive from the former KOA Campground site down to past Fall Creek, fishing them with two-pound line and four- to five-feet deep. There are two ways to work these -- let them sit with no movement or twitch them just a tiny bit every 10 seconds. Trout don't seem to be drawn by too much movement.
The normal Gulp Power Baits are still working. The Missouri Department of Conservation stocked twice last week and there seem to be plenty of rainbows caught in front of and off our dock here at Lilleys' Landing.
As far as fly fishing below the dam, well, I heard several reports from Sunday . . . one good and some bad. The good one was a guy stripping woolies off the point at the big hole; he did well, and he said others were catching trout, too. But others fishing below the big hole down to the former KOA said it was very slow. Farther down towards Lookout and below fishing picked back up and was excellent for most of the morning but slowed down in the afternoon after the water started.
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