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Yes, looks like it was deleted for some reason??? I know Duane and trust what he said. Here is the first part of the notification... USACE flow changes killing trout by ozarkflyfisherjournal THE USACE is killing trout and endangering waders with wildly swinging flows below Bull Shoals Dam. Guide Duane Bell posted Facebook video of "hundreds" of dead fish stranded without water below Bull Shoals yesterday morning when flows plummeted five feet in a couple of hours: from around 14,000 cfs to 750 cfs in under 2 […]

This was on Dally's blog this morning. The minimum flows are great for wading but the COE needs to drop the water a bit slower. Hopefully they will get the message. https://ozarkflyfisherjournal.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/usace-flow-changes-killing-trout/

Interesting. I didn't know they would hit a lure. Also I remember reading that they are pretty tasty when battered and fried.

Cool story. What are they, some kind of carp?

We only got a half inch of rain out of Laura but apparently there was lots more on the lower White. They turned the water off last night and there was only 1 generator running this morning. I waded the area just upstream from Cotter and there were lots of fish everywhere I tried. I caught a ton of rainbows as well as this nice golden and brown. I caught around 10 on dry flies early and the rest on eggs, midges and San Juan worms later. Don't know how long it will last but it was nice not fighting the higher flows.

I used to live on the Laguna Madre near Corpus Christi, TX and fished for trout and redfish most every day. If you have a decent rod/reel setup for bass fishing that should be perfect for trout, slot sized reds and sheepshead. A 7 foot spinning rod and a 2000 to 3000 series reel is all you need. Now if you want to target bull reds then you will need something heavier.

The bigger boat should be no problem with the current flows. They are running around 4 units in the mornings and bump it up to 6 or 7 in the afternoons.

I am kinda confused. When I look at the USACE web page it shows that the current power pool is 917 thru Nov 30. Anyway, glad to see the generation slow down as that will allow Bull Shoals to drop a bit faster. https://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/pages/data/tabular/htm/tabrock.htm

I think a siphon would help, however the $$$ are probably not in the budget. Here's a short article on the Norfork dam siphon which helped the water quality. https://garverusa.com/services/federal/projects/steady-flow-for-trout-below

Here's a pic of one I caught last week around Stetson's. Hope they get as big as the one in your picture.

Great. I hate poachers. Not much different than a common thief. The warden may or may not show up but at least you'll know you tried.

If you see them using bait in the C&R area (and probably keeping everything they catch) then get their boat registration number and call the AFGC poaching hotline.. https://www.agfc.com/en/enforcement/report-poaching/

What a shame. Hopefully it died of natural causes. I guess if someone caught it recently and then tried to release it we would have heard about it and there surely would have been pictures.

Water was a bit lower this morning so I launched the boat at Cotter and ran up to a shoal that was wadeable. I didn't see any fish coming up so I started with a Y2K and midge dropper under an indicator. I noticed a nice golden rainbow holding in the current and made a cast just upstream of him and he took the Y2K. After I released him I saw another golden and caught him also. Then one more showed up and I caught him. That was 3 goldens in a row, all different sizes. This shoal is not close to any of the stocking points so I guess the goldens must like each other's company and hang out together. Overall it was a good morning with lots of rainbows and one decent brown. They liked the Y2K better than the midge today. Here's a picture of the biggest golden and the brown...

I take 2 fly rods, 1 rigged for indicator fishing and the other for dry/wet flies, a pair of waders, wading boots and fly vest. And the normal safety stuff, a rainsuit and some basic tools.

Ran out of file space. Here is the rainbow...

I launched at Wildcat this morning and ran to some protected water and then put the waders on. There were some fish rising to small mayflies so I tied on a size 18 parachute Adams. I had 6 or 7 takes and landed 3 rainbows and a decent cuttie. Then I noticed a big splash close to the shoreline so I switched to a size 10 green foam hopper since I saw quite a few small green hoppers yesterday when I mowed the yard. Second cast and I hooked the brown in the first and second pictures. A while later I hooked the rainbow in the last picture. I missed a few more takes on the hopper and then I didn't see anything rising so I switched to a Y2K/midge combo under an indicator and caught quite a few rainbows. Glad to see the fish starting to look for hoppers as that is one of my favorite ways to fish.

I forgot about those. They stocked them last fall just to confuse us TU guys after the Bonneville plants. I caught a few at Rim Shoals and thought they were Bonnevilles but Christy Graham said they put them in. Add another species to the slam list...That would be quite an accomplishment to catch all (now 8 species) of trout from the Bull Shoals tailwater in a single day.

It is really going to be difficult to get a true White River "Slam" in one day's fishing. 🙂 You would need... Rainbow Golden rainbow Brown Snake river (fine spot) cutthroat Bonneville (big spot) cutthroat Brook Tiger

They stocked 5,800 brook trout between the dam and Gaston's earlier this month and another 2,700 at Norfork... https://ozarkflyfisherjournal.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/brookies-stocked/

They only stocked them in the C&R area below the dam with the thought that many of them would stay up there and be protected. But apparently some of them are moving downstream as the one I caught was just upstream of Stetson's. Here's some more info... https://www.agfc.com/en/news/2020/05/27/agfc-to-try-tiger-trout-hybrid-in-bull-shoals-tailwater/

Sounds like a good day. I fished around Stetson's this morning and also caught a small Tiger trout. I understand they are triploids so they should grow pretty fast.

Well since there aren't many reports on here lately, I guess I'll put one up... I launched the boat at Cotter ramp and ran up to a side channel that has a big coon tail weed bed where sulphurs have been hatching. Put the waders on and there were a few fish coming up but they were few and far between. I caught 3 on a sulphur dry fly and then switched to a Y2K and ruby midge combo and started to do better. I caught quite a few rainbows, lost a really nice golden rainbow and then caught this long but skinny brown on the midge. Still decent fishing but the flows are coming up more each day. It was 22" but looks like it hasn't had a decent meal in quite some time.

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