Devan S.

Their new pool policy didn't amount to anything. Little bit of massaging the regulating stages at Newport and Georgetown by a couple feet or days here or there. Min flow was 950cfs and they doubled it to 1900cfs which they had been running that or more for weeks if not months now. 30-40,000cfs is an entirely different magnitude. The only real change as I recall was instead of pulling it back down 1129 after this type of event, it'll be 1127 to give them a little more reaction time.

Glad someone finally said it. Heck in 2 months there will be 5x the traffic, bigger waves, and people falling off tubes, skis, and wake boards all over.

As a local, the idea that this is just "one big event a year" couldn't be further from the truth. There has been complaints about amount of pressure for over a month by people out there fishing everyday. The amount of pressure is growing every year and its not just the one 400+ boat tournament. I would highly doubt any local businesses are making or breaking their year on the 3 days of the BBT. In fact, most of their cash cow shows up late next month. At this point, to my knowledge, there is nothing stopping this event from being a weekly or monthly shindig. LOZ does something 2x/year, Grand 1x/year, BBT is multiple lakes. Heck smaller outfits are even running this type of tournament. Who would consider Holiday Island a location for a big bass tournament setup but they do it. Obviously there is a ROI so what prevents it from becoming a one big event a year to a non-stop onslaught. I think Fish's concern is that he is just a hop-skip-n-jump away on a lake that was much like TRL was years ago and he gets where things are headed and he doesn't like it.

Beaver was spilling almost 4k over the top yesterday.....down to 900cfs over the top today.

Beaver was running gates and generating. Shut down the generator like 5 or 6 days ago and just gates now.

Guide curve changes either tomorrow or Friday downstream of BS I believe. May not effect the gates at Beaver or TRL but probably will BS.

My last 2 I have just called the Rogers office....paid over the phone and in a couple days a new pass shows up.

Beaver bumped up this morning about the time they bumped Table Rock up.

16 1/4 is getting awfully close to 3lb anyways.

I understand the idea behind peaking plants. It wasn't that long ago that power companies doing rolling blackouts in the middle of the deep February freeze...yet we weren't running these plants 100% then either. My point being you still have the Arkansas River and numerous other lakes in the area with capacity that I think if you looked at the numbers are all utilized far below 50%. How long has it been since any local lake has gotten remotely close to the minimum power pool? Wouldn't increasing generation percentage also increase flood storage capacity? Are those goals # 1 and 2 in the water control plan?

Beaver, TRL, BS, and Norfolk dams have a combined generating capacity of 841 MW. How much of that is actually utilized? Is it even 50%?

EIA monthly data already indicates domestic production is at Jan/Feb 2019 levels. Dallas Fed did a survey with oil execs and 60% said Investor pressure is slowing them down. Only 11% cited environmental, social, governance issues and 6% cited government regulations. Haven't we been natural gas independent for years? Why did it double or more in costs?

Been that way everyday for 2-3 weeks that the sun was shinning.

I hate standard time with a passion. Of course if you don't have a job with set hours it doesn't matter.

I've done it from the boat up James river years ago. Interesting to go out at midnight opening night for a first timer. Last year I did it in the tailwaters below Beaver dam from the bank with floodgates open. If I cared and had my choice from the bank at the tailwaters is far more fun.

MS crappie are just build differently. The MS crappie has a set of shoulders like its been lifting weights. It just doesn't compare to the crappie locally.

Its the livescope principle......just because someone takes you there....tells your what to do, when to do it, and how to do it....the fish still has to bite. The only person that gets credit for that is the guy holding the rod.

Dang I feel like your always finding them 18" smallies.

He averaged the average twice and then hedged his bet by 10% so I'm not sure why it matters that its only 74 degrees for 1 hour a day.

If they are recreational then its highly unlikely they would pass up trees, docks, ect full of active fish if they didn't see big ones or go out looking for the open water roamers that are generally bigger. Fishing like that isn't a numbers game. Tournament anglers aren't looking for a 15 fish limit most are just a 7 fish limit so you have a whole lot more benefit to taking the risks of passing up barely legal fish looking for bigger fish.

This right here.....Every argument I see for livescope assumes that the hammers are still hammers. Livescope and SI have allowed the bottom 90th percentile to get significantly better, to eliminate tons of unproductive water, to get real time feedback, to know nearly exactly where your bait is with respect to a fish or target, to shrink the years it took the hammers to learn. It doesn't make them all hammers but taking that bottom percentiles and making them 20% better is a huge deal. I don't think were going to see this kind of stuff go away but I do think between the last 15-ish years of side imaging, livescope, and the user base growth that were going to see some reductions limits in certain places pretty soon.

Get rid of multispeed transmissions and run your car at 5k everywhere you go and I bet it doesn't get 20mpg and dang sure won't last 200k miles.

Agreed had a terrible balance on the background noise vs. the performers.

I have a family member on a local SWAT team. He brought his to the farm one time to shoot and this is 100% my experience shooting full auto. Zero control and to someone untrained its essentially a run away with the recoil for the first 15 shots and an overcorrection the final 15 if your fast. Best I can tell is full auto was only meant for running into a room knowing full well your going to die and the goal is to hit as many ceiling fans as possible or just wasting rounds and making noise. 3rd burst or semi auto is all they use unless a real SHTF situation.

Those things are freaky when you've been drinking all day and didn't know they exist until you go dragging them through the hole in the floor.