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Just spoke with MoDOT's Springfield office at 417-895-7600 and the KC bridge is NOT closed and was NOT closed at any time. They are monitoring the situation but it appears the Lake may have crested at about 1400 hours at 935.47 and went down a teeny bit to 935.44 at 1500. Not down much but better than the constant rise !

Maybe not, but we all pay to rescue their butts when they hit something at 70 mph in flood conditions.

Pictures of the entrance road to Baxter campground/launch ramp. Courtesy dock is being sucked underwater by the cables. Have heard many docks are having this same problem.

935.03 at 0700 4-27-08 ! 68,000 cfs being released at the dam, also new record. Hope they don't have to use the spillway.

Safety first with all the floating debris just under the surface. Observed several tournament type wrapped boats this afternoon with dual power poles running just about wide open despite trees, limbs, trash etc. all over the water. Then along comes a big play boat throwing the usual high wake. Many docks have been taken in as far as their cables will allow and are putting a lot of stress on anchors, cables, structure etc. 933.17 at 1900 hours. Going higher.

The Corp's website is predicting 931 by Thursday 4-28. http://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/WCDS/Reports/Daily/lakfcst.htm After seeing the water in the Rivers, streams and roadside ditches that is draining towards the Lake on a trip up to Springfield yesterday, I can understand that prediction. And that is just from the North, to the South, the rain was even heavier. I have recorded 13.28 inches since last Thursday with 5.39 inches of that coming yesterday, Monday, and thankfully, it has stopped for a while.

Those storms that were parked over AR moved North during the night and are right over Table Rock and are "training" West to East. 2.03 inches since Midnight as of 6:18 A.M. Monday. Storm total since Thursday now stands at 9.88 inches and it's pouring and will continue to do so. You can almost watch the Lake rising. Severe weather predicted by NWS for Monday afternoon.

According to my Vantage Vue rain gauge, since it began raining Thurs., we have had 5.64 inches + an additional .79 inches as of 11:30 A.M. since Midnight, today, Easter Sunday. Looks like that NWS prognostication for 6 to 9 inches over the seven day forecast period may be a little bit low ! Good spawn/fry survival should be a result.

My point exactly, aimed at the finger pointer who targeted lake homes as the culprits behind "rock snot". Thanks for posting the facts.

Nope, not open yet. They open April 1st or the 1st weekend in April.

Anyone interested can find an informative article in the newest Bassmaster magazine about the effects of the use of Gasoline containing Ethanol in outboards. Title of the article is "Death by Ethanol". Makes no diff if your engine is newer or older this stuff is gonna' getchya' in the wallet. The notorious affinity for water that all Ethanol exhibits is the chief culprit. And now the EPA has approved 15% Ethanol for newer vehicles so be sure and read those gas pumps before filling up the boat.

6.22 Nothing wrong with "lurkers". At least they don't yap endlessly about inane subjects.

That survery sure didn't ask many questions of those who catch smallmouth on lakes. It seemed to be aimed at stream/river fishermen.

Yeah, and "pouring" phosphorus and fecal bacteria down the rivers and creeks from inadequate sewage treatment plants from Cities, chicken farms, cattle pastures and small towns. What River/creek does Buffalo, MO drain it's sewage into ?

Thank you Sir for stating that opinion. Being a Bass angler since way before tournaments started attracting so many participants and grew so numerous, that has definitely become my opinion also. It sure does seem counterproductive to remove the resource we all treasure from their attempts to further the species. "Plenty for everyone" is what commercial Cod fishermen in the Western North Atlantic thought too. Those schools of Cod were so numerous our Boat's skipper used to "hide" from sonar underneath them during NATO war games. No more !

Now they are claiming the entire landmass moved 8 FEET ! http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=weather/earthquake_center&id=8009020 I wonder if we will hear from any of the Japanese bass fishermen ?

30 million tons of Bighead carp to be exported to China for food. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/article_067546f6-0b89-5c30-a5a1-e56d0e61b740.html

Thank God for Missouri Term Limits. Now if we only had them at the Federal level too !!

Go directly across the main Lake at Table Rock from Point 19. There are two small coves there on the Eastern bank that are not deep nor long. On the right hand or Southern bank of the Northernmost cove there are several tall Pine trees that Great Blue Herons nest in every Spring. They are very noticeable every year with all the noise they make coming back to the nests with food for their young. In other words those Herons shouldn't poop where they eat ? [grin] Good luck with your research.

I wonder why this guy would do that ? Was he busted for poaching or fishing violations and wants revenge ? It doesn't save the State anything. Remember the old saying...."No one is safe when the Missouri State Legislature is in session". Proven time after time, year after year.

Did Ameren/ UE ever get that deal passed where everyone had to chip in and pay for their site development where they are installing their second Nuke plant at Callaway ? I thought that was way out of line...expecting people to pay for a new generation plant (nuclear or otherwise...don't start that crap) so a private Company could make more profits.

Also at Table Rock.

Thanks much for the picture. I'd definitely agree with you that's an Otter due to head shape and ear placement. Since they follow watercourses it makes sense as the River Des Peres drainage system runs under Forest Park. If the City still stocks Grand Basin Lake with Bullheads there is also a great food source.

The "original" (make that old) float n' fly jigs were tied with "craft hair" by the originators down in the Dale Hollow area. "Craft hair" is the material used for hair on the heads of those ugly little rubber "troll dolls" that used to be hot sellers. The diff between craft hair and marabou is the craft hair is far more stiff when wet than marabou. Whereas marabou "undulates" with little movement of the rod tip, craft hair remains almost motionless by comparison. Apparently, different materials are being substituted, with success, for the craft hair. Used to be that F n' F jigs were seldom bigger than 1/8 oz and were tied using a dart head or pointy nosed jig head with eyes painted on it. Without the eyes the jig was a dud.

Weather Channel is more than likely yapping about snow melt coming down the Big Rivers. Heard it's already at flood stage at Louisiana, MO on the Mississippi up N of St. Louis and that's really early. Weather Channel is so unreliable I hardly ever bother wasting electricity to tune them in. For your area of TR I would suggest you average the Tulsa NOAA office's forecast for Oak Grove, AR http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.46326301239126&lon=-93.44833374023437&site=tsa&smap=1&marine=0&unit=0&lg=en with the Springfield NOAA office's forecast for Lampe, MO http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=sgf&zmx=1&zmy=1&map.x=139&map.y=242 to get some idea of what's coming. The dividing line between those two National Weather Service forecasting areas is the AR State line just a few miles, as the crow flies, to your/our South so you kinda' have to read the "forecast discussion" at the bottom of the page in the text list and then interpret and average what each office is saying. This Winter I have had no faith whatsoever in the Springfield office's forecasts and found the Tulsa boys to be about 75% to 80% accurate and very good about issuing Winter weather advisories/warnings vs. the Springfield bunch. Tulsa's a heck of a lot further away than Spgfld but their forecast area is just over the hill ! It's gonna' take a whole lot of rainin' to fill this pond back up to normal. It will probably come in one Ozark-Frog-Strangler storm......like usual.