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100 lb... awesome...

Good question, made me ponder. I think it boils down to existentialism du jour. What matters today. Due diligence. The act of personal participation is a weighted influence in decision making. Who are we really... the nice guy with a good point that you shared lunch with, or one of xxx posts on the web? Besides, the cause is one you admit you're behind. Let the man light his fire and see how much he can burn.

I think the fact that they're 80% off indicates their (lack of) popularity. On the other hand, they create a pretty good argument for open carry. Pretty sure I'd shoot first and ask questions later... :-)

This profile is from the 'biggest' water, right in front of the dam. The sheer volume of (in this case) 100-150' water in the big end seldom is devoid of O2 because it's so large. The fish that prefer the cooler water can usually thrive there, trout at Bull, stripers at Beaver, or walleye at... You won't have to go too far uplake before that oxygen pocket peters out.

There is no 2nd thermocline in that profile. Look at the temperature/depth numbers. From 40' on down, there's only a consistently stable 1 to 1.5 degree drop every 10 feet. Compare that to the ~6 degree drop from 30' to 40' where the real thermocline is strongest at 32-33 feet (2.3 deg/ft). The "spike" between 100-150 feet is merely oxygen that hasn't been used up yet. Were the summer to continue, that too would be gone in a few weeks. It's nothing to drop a spoon to though, at <2ppm O2, not even cats or carp can survive there.

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I'd say it's more that there is nowhere to go more than they can't figure where to go. Take walleye, which have been sighted floating in numbers. The surface water's too warm.Tpreferred temp water has lost DO. Even if they "knew" there were better conditions only 4 miles away, they couldn't get there without croakin'. There's a Catch 22 with DO. The warmer the water, the higher the metabolism of a cold-blooded fish, the greater the O2 demand. Unfortunately, the warmer the water, the less oxygen it will carry; Most fish stress (some die) at 5ppm O2. At 77 degrees, water will only hold ~8.4ppm. Throw in some BOD from decaying matter and things can go south in hours. Having hauled live trout and watching the O2 meter all the way, you can eat up the miles as long as you maintain 6-7ppm. Hit 4 for 4-5 minutes, and you lost the load.

Hmmm. Is now a good time to admit I have a pro grade YSI portable DO/TEMP meter with a 50' probe? I bought it for fish farm duty, but drug it to the lake a lot over a the years. Much like a camera, it teaches you to read the water column with your graph better. Thermal and oxygen shears appear as noise shears on the screen... say the top 30 feet are fuzzy, but everything below is clear as a bell. What you're seeing is mostly living stuff. Where that life appears to end is usually a shear, sometimes both of temp & O2, sometimes just one of them. I found that information quite helpful. In a lake that often has fish to 50', knowing there's nothing alive below 30' removes a lot of water to eliminate.

Five stars and an attaboy! The first few nights you need a jacket is always good flattie time. Then it gets even better. Dude. Really. There's plenty enough good flatties there to make a hell of a night rod 'n reelin'. Set the clickers and kick back. You know where they are. You have what they crave. You have to do it man. I loved runnin' lines, but I love em even better on R&R.

That's Tie Slide Bluff. If you look closely at the west end, you'll see where they slid thousands of railroad ties off the hill above (currently right off 86) to be rafted down for the new rails. Ironically, those very rails heralded the end of commercial river traffic on that stretch of the White. It's a pretty good fishin' hole too... Never had the desire to risk my neck on that bluff to look inside that little hole, and I like cavin'. If it was anything worthy of mention, it would have been marked ;Cave' on the old topos, but it's not.

I don't think they make a tequila strong enough to make a 'dillo palatable (now watch it pop up in the 'whuts cookin' thread). They've sure put the red worms in my yard on the lookout. Almost tripped over one on the way to my truck one dark morning last week.

Lakeside's nothin' but a deserted quad of gas pumps now. Too bad. The closest decent bait shops left that serve the big tailwater market are in Van Buren & Russellville. Can't find those 8oz bank sinkers and 4" goldfish just anywhere. Best bet for bait now with regular flow all summer is a cast net. From the bank, the accessible area is all riprap, so you can't let it reach the bottom or you'll lose it. Watch what others do and follow suit. For rod & reel bait go to the shallowest end of the backwater by the lock (all the way to the right on the bank). Rod & reel in the day for bait there, and toss the net at dusk & dark farther down. Setup to fish near the extreme far end of the parking and cast towards the end of the dike that extends from the lock wall. Fish as near any current as you can (but not necessarily in it). If you hit some good baits keep a few of the best alive in a bucket for the flatheads. Don't get greedy. 2 or 3 lively baits beats a bucketful of dead. Chunk and mangle the rest for the blues. Enjoy! A hot nght below the dam is prime time.

Au contraire...

Hi Ron, Are those from river spawners, dam spawners, or both? Also, it would be interesting to check the broodstock from Table Rock for the trace chemical in a few years to see how many Beaver 'eyes made the jump.

Great reference, thanks! It's been done, but this one back in '12 didn't make it. http://archive.news-leader.com/article/20120314/NEWS01/303140055/Table%20Rock%20Lake%20plane%20crash%20one%20dead

Beautiful fish!

What good did it do him? He still got shot.

A meth head, a skin head, and a Tactical+511 guy walk into a bar. They're all packing. At a corner table sits Andy and Barney. Barney's packing, but Andy has his bullet. Bruce Wayne is at the bar (packing status unknown). Ted Nugent is behind the bar with a rotary grenade launcher. Who walks out alive?

Ever consider a summer vacation to Syria?

Everybody gets a label. If you're not a basshole you're a knifer.

Duh... this is the internet... 3 billion viewers and growing. To post locations and expect the place not to be over run is what's hard to fathom.

There might be a big wad in Blue Springs about now...

I've gotten my $ worth from my rig, enjoyed the view and learned a lot too. What they don't tell you is you can't watch TV and fish at the same time. TVs fun, catchin' fish is funner.

Durn nice fish on a flyrod.

Spent many a night under the dams on the AR, I can smell the shad in your pictures. Mostly at Ozark & Van Buren, but they look the same. Just a bit smaller and without the pretty colors... :-) See if you can time lapse a barge under tow headed upstream when he's about 2-3 miles from the lock. The arc that huge spotlight cuts would make a great picture.