Phil Lilley

Wonderful. Congrats!!

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The museum at TOR is incredible!

I've been through it, although it wasn't finished last May. I've been through a lot of aquariums and attractions across the country but this is awesome! Pics and videos don't do it justice. Ticket price is not high - not saying it cheap either. We bought a table at Friday's event. I did get an email but I thought it was a public event. $125 per ticket. Not sure if they have any room left though. Tonight's deal is $1,000 per plate. I'd be cool to see 3 presidents in one place so close to home. Carter and Bush Sr. are getting up there in age. I wonder why the Clinton's weren't invited?

Wish I was going... would be cool to be there. We are going Friday to the Ozarks Heritage Event.

Warm weather gear... just layers of whatever you like to wear. You can get fancy with high tec stuff but common fleece and a good old hoody sweatshirt is good.

I have not been to the dam wading yet this year.... pretty sad actually. But boat fishing has been very good.

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Interesting. Thanks for posting.

Oh my 😬

He caught it on a small jig Brett's ties called a Baitfish I believe. Jimmy (son in law) followed Brett up to Lookout where they took pictures and released it, but it didn't make it. It's extremely hard to release a big brown like that even under the best circumstances but our water is low in O2 and it just couldn't catch it breath I guess. Another year and that fish would have been a state record.... but there's more out there.

Yes

That's a 6 year old fish!!

34x23 brown. Clipped adipose fin. 24.68 lbs. I helped weigh and measure it.

Thanks for posting, Al. As always...

Generation lately has been anyone's guess. According to the SPA online forecast, they're supposed to run about one unit for an hour late evening every day but that's not been very accurate. They're been running water starting about noon - 1 p.m. and off by 8 p.m.. They are running 2-4 units, 100 megawatts at about 707 feet. Lake temperature remains about 58 degrees. So the water has been off from 8 p.m. till the next mid day giving fly fishers a chance to fish below the dam as well as other parts of the lake. Tim Homesley fished a couple of mornings last week and "was impressed" at the number, size and quality of our trout. Tim owns Tim's Fly Shop near Roaring River State Park. He said his best fly was a chammy worm which is basically a San Juan tied with a thin slice of shammy cloth. Some people use it on a small jig head. I've been told the best way to work either a shammy or mega worm (white) is let it go to the bottom and move it, keeping it in sight. And when it disappears, set the hook because it's probably in a fish's mouth. Other flies have been small (#20-22) gray scuds, cracklebacks (#16), P&P or rusty Zebra Midge (#18), foam beetles and ants and black or olive wooly buggers (#16). Also brown or olive sculpins have been catching fish too. Even some bass have been hooked below the dam fishing streamers. I've done pretty good fly fishing, using a red Zebra Midge (#16) under an indicator 3-4 feet deep, fishing from the Narrows down to Fall Creek when the water is off, 6x tippet. Below Fall Creek, the pink Berkley's power worm is STILL king! It's amazing how well this bait has worked for so long. Almost all our guides fish it because it works!! Steve Dickey has been parked 200 yards above our dock for a couple of weeks each morning with his clients catch rainbow after rainbow. He stays in the shade of the bluff until his trip is over about 10:30 a.m.. Even during the day in bright sunlight, it works. Buster Loving reported his clients caught over a hundred rainbows on spoons (Cleo 1/8th ounce) in the Branson Landing area a couple of days ago. It was a fish on every cast, he said. Night crawlers and PowerBaits still are catching trout too. Again, we haven't seen much of any slow-downs this season. I believe it's because of the warmer water. Our fish are more active and need to feed most of the time to keep their strength. This also helps the food base, minnows, sculpins and bugs. This is a picture of the gravel flat at the Narrows above Fall Creek. At low water, there's more exposed gravel than ever before. View full article

That was a first.

I silver stick bait drifted through should work too.

3-4 inches what I heard. Bigger trout are eating the dead ones.

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They add enough to keep the level above 4 ppm. Not ideal. 6 is better. But that's the number they've picked.

One other bit of information. Talked to the manager at the Corps office at Table Rock over the weekend. He said they (Corps) started injecting O2 in June. That's the earliest they've ever had to start doing that.

Started dropping in June... I posted a topic on the subject.

You're dead on. What we see from, say, Lookout down lake is there's not much affect of this issue. The fish will not fight as hard and/or not bite as aggressive but very little if no death from it. It seems sunlight and wind play a big part of adding O2. At night would be the time when fish are more susceptible to harm, especially up close to the dam. But in 2015, when there was a strong smell of sulphur on the lake, it was bad down here too. We're hoping this year isn't a repeat of that.