White Bass 2014

[Ham]

I freqking love the new minimum flow and I think the new 659 as normal is really going to help the warm water fish of Bull Shoals.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Ham it will help the spawn for awhile with all the new cover, but then it will just be Bull Shoals again with a lot of access gone. The Bull also suffers from being the holding pool for the lakes above and it has been brim full in the past, what will the head start do?

Economically it will hurt up above and I wonder what it will do for waders down below.

[Ham]

I understand the "new" cover in Bull won't last forever. I hoping for good spawns for a while 659 doesn't restrict my access at all.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I understand the "new" cover in Bull won't last forever. I hoping for good spawns for a while 659 doesn't restrict my access at all.

No doubt, but this upper end had a lot of bank fishermen. I would guess that on any given warm weekend there would be over a hundred people between the Pothole and Beaver creek. Most of that is gone now. Maybe 25% is still available, but the logistics have changed. I can only imagine how many people it affected lake wide.

For me the question mark is why was it deemed important after all these years of success. Follow the money maybe?

[Nighthawk]

"Really? Apparently the trout were just barely getting by for preceding 60 years. Not sure how it became so popular or produced a world record?"

Wayne, if you'll notice, I didn't say it wasn't good for the trout, I said I didn't like it.

[Rodney Boucher]

Dad sent me pics on Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th of two limits each night from beaver creek. He night fishes with 1/32 oz black jigs. trolling in a jon boat.

[Scott Keling]

Nice report. Some times those night trips are what fills my frieze.