Lake Taneycomo - November 20

[Phil Lilley]

I thought I'd post daily for a while to give updates on the water condition-- and also the fishing.  Today, the water in the lake looked so much better.  It has that greenish look again, not the dark brown we've been seeing for a month.  The Corp bumped up generation this morning to 110 megawatts and the level made it up to 708 feet but only for a couple of hours.  Then it went back down to 706 feet, 45 megawatts, and stayed there all day.  Of course they're still running 4 flood gates.

I thought I'd post daily for a while to give updates on the water condition-- and also the fishing.  Today, the water in the lake looked so much better.  It has that greenish look again, not the dark brown we've been seeing for a month.  The Corp bumped up generation this morning to 110 megawatts and the level made it up to 708 feet but only for a couple of hours.  Then it went back down to 706 feet, 45 megawatts, and stayed there all day.  Of course they're still running 4 flood gates.

The hatchery reported the water temperature dropped another degree today.  I didn't ask what it was but it's probably about 57 degrees now.  That's a good sign - something's moving above the dam!  With the real cold weather this weekend, Table Rock just might flip!

No bad reports from the hatchery.  They have everything under control, if there's such a thing.

Very few boats on the water today but those who did get out fishing was pretty good.  I saw one group with rainbows at the dock at dusk with their limit of pretty nice rainbows.  They said they caught them up just below Fall Creek.  But most boated down to the Landing and caught fish there too.

I got out for the last 90 minutes of the day.  Drifted from the cable below the dam down using a drift rig, 1/8th ounce bell weight and a duo of flies-- an egg fly and a scud.  The best was the scud, catching a total of 6 rainbows.  It was a #14 orange scud.  The egg caught a couple.  The trout were about 12 inches and in good shape.  Did catch one rainbow on a sculpin 1/8th ounce jig.  It was bigger - about 17 inches and very fat.

The lead image is of one of our vets who participated in our Healing Water Event earlier this week.  Guide and image compliments of Chuck Gries.

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