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Well to be frank ... they shut the water off Thursday night and it got really low. Thy nvr ran any water all day. Left around 2pm. Managed about 10 rainbows the whole day. The guys I took caught nothing. Saw only three browns. No water made it tough. Plus there were a million people by like 8 am. Outlet two and below three were the best. Scuds were only thing I could get to work. Had to put it in the moss and twitch a little after it settled. This made for a lot cleaning off moss though. Really would've liked half a unit running. Better luck next time 😂

I'll be down for the annual pilgrimage below the dam. Hopefully some browns are moving . Had a great year for rainbows one time but something bout the browns I just thoroughly enjoy

See any browns moving ?

When it's wet it looks real.

Started tying these little dudes. Fly fish foods baby fat minnow. Super simple very fishy

Stupid to take down all three hatcheries at the Sametime... oops we don't have no fishes for da peoples again... wuhtwhoa. Silly nonsense to do that

Mostly stocker size in zone 2 zone one the fish were better quality but more weary

The spring is just loaded with fish. Got there at buzzer Wednesday and went straight to work on stocker bashing in zone 2. Managed 15 to 20 before migrating to zone 1. Zone 1 was less populated between rock dam and big dam. I managed another 10 to twelve up there. Most fun was sight fishing to fish staged up behind grass beds. Drifted a scud over the back edge and fish on. Caught a few below the Rock dam as well stripping streamers and deep dredging scud. Had a fish blow up on a froggy fly as well. (I got bored 😂 ') beautiful day and the most fish I've seen in the park in years.

Kinda early still with the really cold temps and lack of water I'd say it'll be later I n March for whites and maybe after the rains for walleye you may see some in the river.

Why would they dump them any way? Unless they were inter mixed it seems kind of like a bad idea.

Sad ... ty and Jim were the best. That's where I learned to tie flies

They didn't have enough money to float it during covid they really struggled. Nice guy from joplin. He just couldn't keep it stocked and couldn't compete with amazon

Yep got your note. Should've went up there first but instead I wandered all the wY down to shoal creek looking for a fish who hadn't seen a person. Found some but didn't connect. The creek has changed so much I hardly recognize it down there. I wonder of they have even stocked that creek this fall?

I mo wd three decent browns but didn't stick any solid and moved four rainbows way down toward shoal creek. The guy fishing by the bridge caught five with worms and marshmallow including a big rainbow . Slow day. Went up by dam and caught a goggle eye for my trouble. Saw rainbows doing the spawning dance by the bridge up there. They were not interested Ina fly