Thur Fri Sat 4/21-23 Night Fishing

[gary2400]

The only thing about night fishing last thursday through Sat nights was Thursday was WOW, Friday was Cool, and Saturday was a bust. After the rain cleared on Thursday with NO generation I caught about 30 in 1 1/2 hours on an olive pine squirrel up on the flats. Friday night the water shut off at midnight and my dad, brother-in-law, Leonard, and me killed them as the water dropped and until another storm came in around 2am. Saturday they never shut off the water and it was slow. Dad tied on one of Leonard's new H2O flies and caught four in a row. That fly was catching a lot of fish but Leonard didn't have enough so I didn't get one:(......It looks like I'll have to wait a long while now to try one. The FLOOD....I went to the dam and looked around at 5pm today and it is incredible! The pavilion is all but covered in water and there is only about 6" of the top of the doors visible on the restrooms. The water was splashing over the top of all the floodgates, and it looked like they were evacuating the fish from the "brown trout" hatchery area. I drove down to Lilleys and his dock is a mess with the water looking like it would only have to come up around 5 or 6 feet to be in his store. I also looked at the new bridge down at the Landing and I would say you can't take a boat under it on the west side....I kind of thought it was a little low when they built it. I think it would be tough to get a boat under the Kimberling City bridge too from the looks of it.

[Leonard]

Hey bud...

NO more special coffee for you

Next time you pee on the bank... pee a little further into the trees...

1 cup and you flooded the place!!