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[laker67]

Possibly spawning along with the rising water. I'm sure that fish at mid lake would move up to the dam area rather soon after the gates open. The high flow would have to continue for some time for others from farther down lake to be encouraged to continue to the dam unless they were already moving up to spawn. The spoonbill in the lake is quite interesting. I never knew they were in there. A lot of the blame for the lower population of spoonies in LoO is Truman Dam blocking their spawning run. MDC says that is why they have to continually stock there. It's really surprising that there would be any in Taney.

I think that the warm water fish would use the lower lake and it's tribs to spawn. One exception might be walleye. In the 60's and 70's, walleye spawn was common between rebar and the dam. As far as the spoons, they are native to the mississippi, so they have been in the white river system before the dams. LOZ, Truman, and TR are re-stocked on an annual basis from blind pony hatchery. The brood stock for the hatchery comes from TR. I would say that taney has a reproducing population of spoons.