Phil Lilley

Sounds nice. Thanks for sharing.

Released...

Bill and I are in.

@Al Agnew will know!

They always make a pretty picture!

There ya go..... they knew you were coming!

Sorry no one commented. I don't live down there but I do watch the trends of all the White River Lakes. I'd think BS and NF dams will continue flows till the levels are close to or at power pool. Watch those levels and you can get an educated guess at future flows.

I hired Lance to take me and my 2 grandsons out fishing Sunday mid day on Beaver. I've been wanting to meet and fish with Lance for a while. We had a great time. I've only spider rigged once and that was in Mississippi on Lake Granada. That's a lot of work!! But effective. We caught quite a few crappie even though we'd have a very old night and Sunday was a bright sunny day. I'd recommend Lance to anyone!

They did the same on Table Rock. Now if we have a dry summer, it will get very interesting.

It makes no sense even without considering what the Corps said. Why keep one lake so high while dumping the rest. I can’t remember the last time Table Rock was below 915 in April!

Went fishing with my friend Richard Marks yesterday. He's been on the crappie for weeks and assured me we'd catch a few. I met him at the ramp at Cricket at 11:30 am. I had my doubts.... high sun but some wind. Not the best conditions. We went to the mouth of Yoccum. 14-18 foot of water, 60 degree surface. He turned on the Livescope. We targeted crappie throwing either a 1/32nd ounce Lilley's jig or a Garland's bait. Richard caught them pretty good - he was on the scope and I threw where he threw. They were suspended 4-6 feet deep and were in groups of 2 and 3, but they were active and aggressive. We ended at 14 nice keepers and quit at 3.

Shane said he thought the fish looked in good shape and didn't think it would die but recover.

Got a report this morning that after the gates were closed and turbine flow reduced, tons of shad were still coming through. Scheduled flows are as low as 2 units the next couple of days. Should be interesting.

They are replacing it with a new one!

It shouldn't.... not for awhile. I'd say it should be strong for at least a week. Last time we had this many shad - live shad - we were catching fish chasing shad on the Cooper Creek Flats a month later.

Gates will shut down Saturday morning at 8.

26 inch solid 10 pound rainbow this morning. Beautiful fish.

I guess the shad are still pouring in. Huge numbers. I still can’t get anyone to tell me if it’s just over the top or through the turbines. I need to go up and see today. Seems like way too many to be over just 2 gates. Tony sent me this last evening. It’s a ball of shad on the surface below the dam. He said even though there’s Tom’s in the water, the white bite is good.

They're pretty aggressive eaters... but I think the constant flow of water helps their population better than food. They seem like they always get plenty to eat.

Don't forget sculpins.

When I went up lake yesterday about 5 pm, I was met by a wall of shad in the water about a mile below the dam. After 2 drifts from the dam to Lookout and only catching one rainbow, I fished on down and caught them good against the bluff bank. This morning I'm getting pics from guides showing big schools of threadfin shad in the water. Nonstop. I haven't gotten confirmation but I think they're coming through the turbines as well as over the 2 spill gates.

I don't understand either. They have said they want to keep the chain of lakes "balanced" but that's not happening. I am grateful they're running this water out of TR right now although I think we'll see a reduction real soon. UNLESS they start dumping Beaver. TR power pool changes to 917 soon. That will slow the flow down I guess.

16k cfs isn't going to do it though. I just looked. We're running 18k here. But they might kick it back shortly.