After The Flood Gates Close....

[rps]

Is the flood gates being open what puts the stripers and Hybrids below beaver dam or are they put in by the conservation dept?

The stripers in the White River below Beaver are from Beaver - over or through the dam - Table Rock doesn't have a striper population other than those. Once they are here they tend to stay upriver and eat trout. Jeff Fletcher caught a huge one near Spider Creek several years ago. It weighed 64 lb. 8 oz. and holds the Arkansas record.

[RonS]

I guess thats what I wanting to hear.So because of the flood gates being open we should have some fresh stock below the dam .About 3 years ago we were going up fishing for them above beaver town and got into more whites and hybrids than any thing but accasionly a decent size striper .

[smac]

in 1990 the gates were open for 10 days and did quite a bit of damage- washed banks, lost aquatic vegitation, washed gravel in deep holes, etc. After that flood, the AGFC did several studies then partnered with TU to do the bank stabilization and boulders we see now to improve the trout habitat. Beaver was the ginnea pig for expanded trout habitat projects that are now in existence throughout the white river system.

After the same above mentioned flood there was quite a population of hybrids and stripers from beaver. AGFC removed 400 in the 8-12 lb. range and trucked them back up to beaver lake in the summer of '90. In '94 there were a couple removed in the 40-50lb. range from beaver tailwater.

who knows what we're in for after this, but it will recover- at least it is a small tailwater and is being managed better than it has in a long time.