How High

[Dutch]

is the water momma. I just saw a boat full of animals go down my street.

[patfish]

It has rained so much here in Saint Louis that our resident Canada Geese, Fred and Ethel, have moved inside the dock door. Along with their.... ugh, goose poop.

[Phil Lilley]

Heard 3 inches in Springfield and 4+ in Ozark last night. It continues here but don't know how much we got- not as much as up north I don't think. Lake continues to run which is a good thing.

[skeeter]

Sure hope for all you trout anglers that the new spillway at TR dam doesn't get a tryout. It lools like that could spell disaster for the SOH Hatchery if it happens. Pretty dumb design IMHO but they claim it was necessary. It's gotta' stop sometime!!!

[Snow Fly]

Montauk Park was evacuated early this morning with all the highwater. I looked at the site for water at Bennett. I don't know what all the number mean, but I fished there Wed and it was up and the number for that day showed 2.5 and the number this morning was almost a straight spike to 7.0.

I complained about no water for the last 3/5 years so I guess we should be happy some of the ground water should be replenished.

Larry

[Kayser]

Hmm, I'm supposed to be going down there Thursday. Think they will let people in by then? Better question, do you think the river will be fishable by then? Who cares about sleeping so long as you can fish!

Rob

[Al Agnew]

The rivers in the eastern Ozarks, as of the last hour or so, mostly have rises ranging from 14 to over 20 feet. Current River has a 20 foot rise at Van Buren, and that's a LOT of water. The St. Francis at the Hwy. 34 bridge above Wappapello is up nearly 21 feet. The Meramec is expected to crest within a foot or two of the all-time record. Big River has a 20 foot rise and still climbing.

This could be a good thing in the end. Small floods, the kind we get almost every year and that are barely over bankful, simply move gravel into the deep pools and fill them in. That's all we've gotten in this part of the Ozarks since the mid-1990s, and our streams have been getting shallower every year. But a huge toad strangler like we're getting now blows the gravel all the way out into the bottom fields and piles it up on the insides of bends, while scouring out the pools. This should eventually improve the habitat, and since it's coming before bass spawning season starts, it shouldn't have a really significant effect on present bass populations in the streams.

Wife and I plan to go out and look at the rivers in the morning...I'll post pictures.

[Larry Richards]

Norfork Lake has come up 7ft in the last 24hrs still on the rise and still raining.I may have waterfront property soon.Bull Shoals is up 5ft

[Dutch]

Norfork Lake has come up 7ft in the last 24hrs still on the rise and still raining.I may have waterfront property soon.Bull Shoals is up 5ft

The BS 5' are you talking 5' over power pool because it was already 4' or is that a new 5' and it is now 9' over pool?

[Larry Richards]

The BS 5' are you talking 5' over power pool because it was already 4' or is that a new 5' and it is now 9' over pool?

UP 5' in the last 24 hours acording to the twin Lakes news