Is Taneycomo Wadeable At 1 Unit.

[yummysmokedham]

Thinking about driving down this evening and doing some night fishing, looking at the corps site it looks like they are planning on running 25 MW all night. I take it that is one unit, is Taney still wadeable at that level? I usually fish the outlets at night.

[barredrock]

thats like half a unit, its doable if that was all they ran

[jasperflyfisher]

I hear that if you go fishing on friday nights without attending a football game you will not catch anything and your team will suffer a humiliating loss!!!

[yummysmokedham]

I hear that if you go fishing on friday nights without attending a football game you will not catch anything and your team will suffer a humiliating loss!!!

LOL they suffered a humilating loss last week. You guys have a home game tonight or are you away? If you do not have to be up to do anything tomorrow we can go after you are done with the game tonight.

[jasperflyfisher]

LOL they suffered a humilating loss last week. You guys have a home game tonight or are you away? If you do not have to be up to do anything tomorrow we can go after you are done with the game tonight.

Home vs Osceola. I'll try to get home as soon as I can.

[troutgnat]

Can anyone clarify how many Mega Watts (MW) per unit??? Table Rock dam has 4 units with a total MW capacity of 230. So, 230/4 = 80. Does 80 MW mean 1 unit??? I never really knew for sure. Tomorrows generation states 40 MW's. Just exactly how many unit(s) is that?

Thank you for whoever would like to contribute their insight.......D

[Aeronikl]

http://www.swpa.gov/generationschedules.aspx

http://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/WCDS/Reports/Data/Tabrock.htm

The SWPA generation schedules web page shows the potential for each dam/powerhouse in their system. I don't pretend to have any inside knowledge - but while each "unit" can run up to the 80 MW, they normally run multilple units at lower outputs - like now, they are running 2 units to only get 30-40 MW's, or down to less than 25. The only things that matter if you plan on wading are the CFS flow rate (directly tied to the MW's being generated) and the tailwater elevation - directly . Since "0" flow elevation of the tailwater is just over 701', subtacting from the current elevation available on the Taneycomo realtime web page or on the computer generated message you can call - you can get the additional depth of the water you will be wading in or around. The flooding this year really changed the river at the top end. Phil Lilley, Leonard and many others have documented this very well - but I will only add that it is definately wider, flatter and more shallow - and I find it very accessable and fishable at 1-2 units - up to 704.5', with flows below 2800 cfs. That doesn't mean you can wade everywhere, but you can get away from the bank in many places and strip streamers or nymph with lighted indicators and not be limited to banging the outlets at night. If you look at the report closely, you will see they change the flows every hour - up and down, as they need to match the power requirements - and you can see and feel the difference. I've never seen so many people wade fishing in so many different locations with the flows we are seeing this weekend.

[troutgnat]

http://www.swpa.gov/generationschedules.aspx

http://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/WCDS/Reports/Data/Tabrock.htm

The SWPA generation schedules web page shows the potential for each dam/powerhouse in their system. I don't pretend to have any inside knowledge - but while each "unit" can run up to the 80 MW, they normally run multilple units at lower outputs - like now, they are running 2 units to only get 30-40 MW's, or down to less than 25. The only things that matter if you plan on wading are the CFS flow rate (directly tied to the MW's being generated) and the tailwater elevation - directly . Since "0" flow elevation of the tailwater is just over 701', subtacting from the current elevation available on the Taneycomo realtime web page or on the computer generated message you can call - you can get the additional depth of the water you will be wading in or around. The flooding this year really changed the river at the top end. Phil Lilley, Leonard and many others have documented this very well - but I will only add that it is definately wider, flatter and more shallow - and I find it very accessable and fishable at 1-2 units - up to 704.5', with flows below 2800 cfs. That doesn't mean you can wade everywhere, but you can get away from the bank in many places and strip streamers or nymph with lighted indicators and not be limited to banging the outlets at night. If you look at the report closely, you will see they change the flows every hour - up and down, as they need to match the power requirements - and you can see and feel the difference. I've never seen so many people wade fishing in so many different locations with the flows we are seeing this weekend.

AERON THANK YOU!. YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY. I HAVE NEVER USED THE REAL-TIME LINK YOU PROVIDED BEFORE. NICE TOOL!, NOW EVERY THING IS BEGINNING TO MAKE SENSE. THANKS.