Spillway apron is gone

[laker67]

As in covered up with water. Shows about a 2.5 feet rise overnight. I noticed that no brave individual was fishing on top of the dam this morning. Not yet anyway. 

[NoLuck]

Good. Maybe it flushed out some of that green goo that was all over zone 1 and 2. 

[laker67]

Lets hope so. Close to 4 inches of rain is what I am hearing from a local source. I wonder if they removed the tree at the rock hole prior to this flood. It was almost bank to bank last friday. That would do some damage if it went downstream. Not sure it would fit through the tube at the whistle bridge, or under the newly remodeled wooden bridge. 

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, laker67 said:

 under the newly remodeled wooden bridge. 

I hope it destroys that thing.

[Flyfisher for men]

3 hours ago, laker67 said:

 I wonder if they removed the tree at the rock hole prior to this flood. 

 

Can you explain what the rock hole is? I've not heard that name. Where exactly is that?

[laker67]

Directly upstream from the bluff hole in zone 2. Named for the large boulders{ rocks} underwater on the far bank.  The lower rock is known as "state record rock". A state record rainbow was caught there in 1974 by Bob Lamm of Sedalia. 

[Flyfisher for men]

3 hours ago, laker67 said:

Directly upstream from the bluff hole in zone 2. Named for the large boulders{ rocks} underwater on the far bank.  The lower rock is known as "state record rock". A state record rainbow was caught there in 1974 by Bob Lamm of Sedalia. 

Thanks for that. I've actually been gathering bits and pieces of information about BSSP regarding things like that. Also looking at old photos, albeit online. 

[laker67]

6 minutes ago, Flyfisher for men said:

Thanks for that. I've actually been gathering bits and pieces of information about BSSP regarding things like that. Also looking at old photos, albeit online. 

Due to flooding over the past 40 years, there are not a lot of the old landmarks left in place. Going upstream from the rock hole, you have kingfisher flats and above that is the high bank hole. In zone 1 about the only landmarks left are the gauge tower and the holland dam. Original wing dams have all been washed out and replaced. I can't recall if the sycamore tree is still standing for the sycamore hole. The hole is definitely gone. And of  course the original whistle bridge is gone. 

[NoLuck]

10 hours ago, laker67 said:

Lets hope so. Close to 4 inches of rain is what I am hearing from a local source. I wonder if they removed the tree at the rock hole prior to this flood. It was almost bank to bank last friday. That would do some damage if it went downstream. Not sure it would fit through the tube at the whistle bridge, or under the newly remodeled wooden bridge. 

I was down last weekend but never made it down to zone 2 at all. Fished up below the Holland dam and up at the spring.  It was there the previous weekend though. 

 

Growing up, that would’ve been cut out the day after it fell.  Seen it numerous times. Park maintenance just isn’t what it used to be. 

[Flyfisher for men]

On May 1, 2019 at 7:08 PM, laker67 said:

Due to flooding over the past 40 years, there are not a lot of the old landmarks left in place. Going upstream from the rock hole, you have kingfisher flats and above that is the high bank hole. In zone 1 about the only landmarks left are the gauge tower and the holland dam. Original wing dams have all been washed out and replaced. I can't recall if the sycamore tree is still standing for the sycamore hole. The hole is definitely gone. And of  course the original whistle bridge is gone. 

I'll have to look for a sycamore.  Whereabouts was it? The place definitely has evolved.