Jigfest 2018!

[Ham]

1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

Let him try.  It's a big river.

I’m always trying

 

[mreed81]

If someone can pm me their number that will be there Thursday that would be great.  I would rather not wake anyone up looking for rooms for my friend and myself. Or maybe if the door is closed that means room is off limits?

[mreed81]

 there is a small chance we will get down earlier but it is a small chance as of right now

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, mreed81 said:

If someone can pm me their number that will be there Thursday that would be great.  I would rather not wake anyone up looking for rooms for my friend and myself. Or maybe if the door is closed that means room is off limits?

Good idea, closed door means it is taken.  The river Villa has a fold out couch-futon that is right past the dining area as you walk in.  I have slept there before and would do so again except that the Villa is no dog.  Probably that will be open.  Also back in the far right corner on the first floor of the Cedar Gables is a room with a fold out bed, usually that is open.  

[gotmuddy]

Those are the most comfortable futon's I have ever slept on.

[Ham]

Ok, this afternoon the water running by the house looked AWFUL. Unfishable BAD. I’ve been keeping an eye on things and this is the first bad water I have seen.

I know that Bull Shoals and Norfork are finishing turning over and today for the first time in a long while they ran approx 10,000 CFS for 3 hours. That tends to stir things up also. So this BAD water might may pass prior to Friday.

i checked with mojorig about the lakes and he feels like turnover is largely over. With the cold weather I expect more generation which should help flush things out, but I am honestly spooked by the brown water.

now combine the poor water quality along with marginal water conditions sand I feel like I need to see if the group wants to reschedule until February or stay on this weekend and relocate to Taneycomo. I’d bet Phil can accommodate us. My understanding is thatalthough Taney has some stain, it is still fishing normally. 

I spoke with Dave Wotton when I went up to check the water at White Hole this afternoon. The water looked better at White Hole, but worse than it looked last week when I fished there. He said he caught fish today. He felt like conditions were not perfect today, but he did mention a BWO hatch. I saw lots of fish feeding up in the water column the other day and caught some of them too. 😉

It is not my call. I wanted to pass along what I saw. I live locally ; I will still fish if we stay on schedule and fish here this weekend, but I did not want ppl to feel blinded sided by possible tough water conditions.

What do y’all think we should do?

[Terrierman]

I trust you.  That year we fished turnover it was not worth driving fifteen minutes.  See what it's like tomorrow maybe?

[JestersHK]

Thanks Ham for the update.  As I stated in the other thread I'll defer to you guys as we are all White River noobs... I'm also not opposed to moving to taney as that is the closest thing I have to home water for me depite the 4 hour drive lol.  Me and my guys are down for whatever.  We will likely go to taney anyways if you guys call it.

[Ham]

So, should we 1) Carry on and make it work

                           2) re-schedule until February  

                            3) Move Jigfest to Taneycomo?

[duckydoty]

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i got walleye