Loz Water Level

[tkite]

Anybody know if they will get the lake up to full pool this week with the rain and keep it up?

[WeekendWarrior]

Anybody know if they will get the lake up to full pool this week with the rain and keep it up?

A resort owner told me it had come up a foot and a half after this past rainfall.

[steveearle]

658.6 right now...Doubt if they let it get to 660 (If they do it will be very temporary) unless we get more HUGE rains. 659 will fish as full pool as they rarely keep it at 660 even during the summer-usually hovers around 659 and change..

[Jbrant]

Got a tournament tomorrow. Was planning on running up the Niangua and fishing a little cleaner water. I haven't fished the Niangua much and certainly not right after this much rain. How dirty is it going to be now??

[Fishing Dude]

I'm doing the same. Might run the Niangua too. Probably fish mid-lake area first though. Can anyone answer the question on water clarity mid-lake also?? I'm assuming it's dingy (2 foot clarity maybe)?? But would love to know for sure.

[Jarrett Ellis]

I'm doing the same. Might run the Niangua too. Probably fish mid-lake area first though. Can anyone answer the question on water clarity mid-lake also?? I'm assuming it's dingy (2 foot clarity maybe)?? But would love to know for sure.

I ran the Niangua yesterday, little niangua was really muddy. Big Niangua not so bad. By the end of Saturday the Grand Glaize was getting muddy too.

[knuck]

We had 8 guys staying at a resort at MM 33 on the main lake this past weekend and the water was surprisingly clear with the visibility around 3-4 feet. We did a last minute redirect to LOZ when the resort owner at Pommie called at 7AM Friday to tell us the dock would be unusable due to how quickly the water was coming up, we have been going to his place for a lot of years and he is a decent ,honest guy to call and let us know how screwed up the conditions were. Back to Loz, we had some decent results but not on a consistent basis from day to day. Plastic baits were the 1st choice of many with sinko's & 5-7" PW's the norm, colors ranged from pumpkinseed to blue & purple flecked. Spinner baits also produced but not on a consistent basis, my go to was a single colorado blade & chartreuse skirt along chunk rock back in the coves. One of the other guys did well on a SB in shallow water way in the backs of coves, three keeps in a few hours Sunday AM before the sky opened up again. The best bite for me fishing plastics was in about 8-10 feet of water while sitting in about 20. Everyone agreed the bite was light with a lot of fish just picking up the bait and moving it, or extremely quick hits with just a split second to react. Depending on the fishing preference of each boat we caught fish from 2-15 feet of water every day. On Sunday I caught my big fish which was nicknamed lil pig, not a trophy by any means but a solid 19" 3 1/2 pounder, short & squat and full of eggs is my guess. My son insisted on one final boat ride Sunday before heading in (so he could drive of course) and we headed around the corner and up into the Nianga, there was significant difference in clarity with a distinct tinge of brown, we only ran up a few miles but I am sure it was worse farther upstream. On the way home heading up 44 towards STL we encountered a circus/freakshow right in the middle of the same storm that nailed us as we were loading up. Torrential rain + many stupid drivers = many accidents in a short stretch of highway, I was a few miles in front of my buddies and counted four incidents, and they said a couple more must have happened after I passed, all of them between the Big Piney to Rolla stetch. My personal favorite was the old man in an old Chevy stepside (1965 vintage) hauling about a 16 foot fully loaded trailer with a giant blue tarp flapping wildly in the wind, as I was about to go around him his rig started the weebie jeebies with the front end of his truck and the back of the trailer gyrating in opposite directions, when I went past I took a look his direction and his knuckles were white gripping the steering wheel and his eyes were the size of silver dollars, thank God he got it slowed down. All in all a great trip with good friends and some interesting moments thrown in for good measure.

Steve in STL