Bull Shoals Conservation Pool

[Wayne SW/MO]

I don't like it simply because it did away with the Pothole access. I like being able to fish that area on foot all year, especially when they were generating. The area around lower Beaver will be the same way, flooded most of the time.

It will be interesting to see if they keep River Run. The campground flooded fairly often in the past and now it will only have about 6' to work with.

[Sam]

I wonder about the big new launch ramp, about two years old now, across from Snapp Holler. To get there by road you turn on MM Hwy. by the convenience store and wind around a little. I've never launched there but watched it being built and figured it was to replace the Highway K ramp after the plan to raise the permanent lake level took effect. That would make sense because the new ramp and road go straight up a ridge so even if the water is 20-30 feet above normal level you could launch there. It's not much good at the old 653' level though, as there's not much water around the new ramp then.

I thought I had it all figured out, but then improvements were made to the Highway K launch area and someone told me the new MM ramp is private (I don't know if that's true). So if there's a master plan about the Bull Shoals water level and boat access in that area, I sure don't know what it is.

[Wayne SW/MO]

So if there's a master plan about the Bull Shoals water level and boat access in that area, I sure don't know what it is

You and me both. I know they had a meeting to discus it, but I had the impression that there wasn't much support for it. I suppose some well connected could have added some pressure?