Attn: Crappie

[Forsythian]

Hey Sam, I wondered if the lot at Kdock was being affected yet... the lake's almost 663 now (thursday), I'll bet easily another foot from your Tuesday trip. I guess it's a write-off, especially if we get the rain tomorrow we're supposed to.

I read the other day where they're considering opening some gates at Table Rock... might be another one of those summers.

[Sam]

Hey, Ken - You were there in spirit with me the other day when the fish were biting, though I knew you had to work.

I sure hope they don't let Bull Shoals get 40 feet high again like last year, that's impossible to fish. Around 2004 though, they kept it about 20 feet high and I had my best season ever. I was launching at that little dip where the K Dock high road and low road split, and ducking when I took my boat under the power line that used to run to a street light where the old marina used to be (I really HOPED that thing was dead).

In May and June in those conditions I was catching crappie, bass, white bass, and I even got a couple of limits of keeper walleyes. So I kinda like high water down there, as long as it ain't unreasonable.

What worries me with the water rising is that one of these days I might get to K Dock, go over the high road, and find that the whole lot's flooded with no place to turn around. Backing a boat and trailer up that road doesn't sound like fun, but I guess I could do it if I had to. Then I'd go to Beaver Creek.

[FRENZEL]

Last week on sat there were thousands of those little crappie. A school large enough to cover the ramp and the complete underside of the courtesy dock.. Never seen anything like it. You would think that 2 years from now ought to be awesome.. Lots of smaller whites too. Hope they make a comeback to what I remember in my college days.