MOPanfisher

Looks like we are still releasing heavy right now, if we get heavy local rains we will have to cut back to prevent flooding on the river below, and let the lake do its job. If local rains don't happen I would expect a precautionary partial reduction in case the big rains come in the middle of the night. Every hour we can run hard before a big inflow helps.

Think Jeremy Wade might do a River Monsters episode on Shoal Creek?

I sincerely hope it peters out or shifts, not a lot you can do. Be careful down there.

I will take the aged steak and the whiskey on the side, preferably with an ice cube or 2 but not critical.

I honestly don't think anyone is defending tournaments that relocate fish, it's likely more of not being able or willing to take on that fight. MDC current policy requires a biological basis for changing the regs, and while nobody is really saying mass relocation is good they do say that it doesn't have much effect on the overall populations. Personally I think they should all adopt the MLF style, but then I aint even a bass fisherman let alone a tournament guy.

Think I would pass on that steak myself.

Good info Notropis. Thank you.

I believe the annual reports from MDC have been posted before. When doing sampling they sample the same locations under as close to the same conditions as are feasible to get a consistent baseline, jumping around and sampling different locations each time will tell you nothing about the population trends. Agents are spread very thin on a lake the size of TR, 4 or so for the whole lake, plus a few hundred thousand acres of land and some rivers and creeks. I wish they did more of a viable enforcement effort on all lakes as I some we a lot of undersized fish and over limits taken. For lakes that gets as much pressure as TR and LOZ I sure see a lot of impressive reports. And those high water years are always a boom for fisheries for the next few years. https://fishing.mdc.mo.gov/reports/table-rock-lake

Length limits, creel limits, sampling of populations, enforcement, addition of habitat, testing water quality along with other agencies, yep doing nothing. MDC doesn't act upon the legislatures i.e. politicians desires, their funding is mostly through sales tax, they may not do what every single one of us wants but they do a lot. I admit that the amount of habitat that Table Rock could stand to have added is a LOT, crews working full time, year round certainly wouldn't over do it. Color me an MDC fan boy if yiu wish I can deal with that. I certainly don't agree with every thing they do.

A few of my fishing buddies have been putting in there, I have been there this year, but they said it's fine.

Sometimes his voice to text doesn't pick on accents, happens to me to sometimes.

AWESOME!

I heard that the angler used a live cotton mouth for bait.

I haven't even finish tilled my gardens yet. We never put out tomatoes until may anyway. Looks like i will have some time to wait for it to dry out enough to even hold my tractor up let alone work the ground. When it finally does get right, seems like it's a marathon of olanting, getting plants etc. Usually tomato plants are on sale by then too.

Since I have a big sack full of hickory saw dust I worked hard to make I stick with that, though have used a lot of oak and apple in past, like most of you say the nuances are lost on me. I tried to have some Lebanese for lunch, but the Lebanese place in downtown Spfld was closed today for personal reasons the sign said, oh well maybe next time.

That would suck but all those little crappie in Pomme right now are the 2015 year class so as they say for every cloud there is a silver lining.

Rain events seem to be going more that direction in the last several years, larger rain events leading to faster and more severe flooding. I don't know if it is climate change, loss of vegetation that slows down run off, or more concrete and asphalt to funnel more water off quicker, or all the above and then some. Maybe I am just getting old as I keep saying things like "back when I was a kid",.

Was it last year that LOZ released a bunch of water in anticipation of a big flood. Except that flood didn't happen, and Ameren was asking the COE to release water from Truman to bring the level back up. If the COE could predict the amount, location and duration of rainfall events that accurately they would put all the meteorologists off the news channels. When heavy rains happen the basic principal is to reduce outflow so that flooding on the rivers below the dam is not made worse, then when the downstream conditions allow releases are increased based on conditions, and current lake level, inflow etc. The lake is designed to fill up and hold the inflows, the vast majority of the time it works perfectly, only a very few times will long term heavy precipitation outpace the ability to hold the water and release it in a controlled manner. Nobody, including the COE wants to see the lake at 100% or more of capacity, or to see releases that put water into homes or close own businesses either down stream or upstream.

That warmer water out to fire up the suds too.

Man I have been eating leftovers for most of a week. However I feel a fish taco or white bass chowder coming on.

I would guess the muddy water is somewhere between Bolivar and Hwy 83 marina. Was across Nemo Bridge today and it is fine still, drove down toward Lightfoot/hwy 83 marina and didn't see any dirty water. However there are several factors that affect how far and fast the dirty water moves. Releases from the lake, which is fairly high right now at 2500 CFS, inflow, which has dropped way off, additional rainfall, predicting up to inches or more in the drainage basin but will depend on where the heavy rains moves through at. In th event of hey rainfall the outflow will be drastically cut back to avoid making the flooding on the river below worse, until the rains and river levels stabilize then be increased again to evacuate the flood water stored in he lake. Throw in a cold front with the predicted rain. I hate to see the lake jump like that during the spawn but it is performing exactly as it is supposed to, so we all just have to work with the facts as they are.

The dam area is high and clear. I haven't been up either the lid let or pomme side to see how far the muddy water extends. Releasing 2500 cfs right now and lake has crested and begun to fall.

I am still waiting for it to dry up enough to plant garden. Was dry enough earlier but I chose to go fishing instead.

I should have planted yesterday but got busy doing other things, now I have to wait a few days for it to dry out enough to work it. Oh, I am not concerned, don't like having to water in april, so only things I have worried over is the cold frame and strawberries.

You can also season them with plenty of Cajun seasoning like slap ya mama and grill them. Then crumble up and make fish tacos, some micro greens and a tadziki sauce and enjoy.