Flow and Fishing 1/13

[Phil Lilley]

The Corp's email this evening says that the lakes are dropping slowly up from Taneycomo as predicted and that this release (20K) will continue till Table Rock drops to about 920 feet which should take another 8-10 days.

Our water color has improved immensely... and the trout bite has also improved.  Our trout are still seeing shad as far down lake as Monkey Island.  I threw a white jig almost down to the island and caught rainbows and browns I'm used to seeing just below the dam - big and fat.  Then boated to the dam and caught some hogs on white.

Video to follow later tomorrow.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

I was down pass the landing and i actually saw trout chasing shad on the surface right next to might boat.  I saw them doing this multiple times, My graph showed a big ball of shad and lots of streaks through them. I have never seen that on Taney. In fact i feel like I rarely see any fish on the graphs there.