Water level changes killing trout on the White

[netboy]

This was on Dally's blog this morning. The minimum flows are great for wading but the COE needs to drop the water a bit slower.

Hopefully they will get the message.

https://ozarkflyfisherjournal.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/usace-flow-changes-killing-trout/

[snagged in outlet 3]

I'll tell ya.   The COE has done a poor job of managing flows for years.  I'm still surprised more people haven't been killed over the years....

[Quillback]

Clicked on the link and it appears to be deleted, but anyway sorry to hear there was a fish kill, hope it wasn't too bad.

[Ham]

Completely unnecessary. 

[netboy]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

Clicked on the link and it appears to be deleted, but anyway sorry to hear there was a fish kill, hope it wasn't too bad.

Yes, looks like it was deleted for some reason??? I know Duane and trust what he said.

Here is the first part of the notification...

USACE flow changes killing trout by ozarkflyfisherjournal

THE USACE is killing trout and endangering waders with wildly swinging flows below Bull Shoals Dam. Guide Duane Bell posted Facebook video of "hundreds" of dead fish stranded without water below Bull Shoals yesterday morning when flows plummeted five feet in a couple of hours: from around 14,000 cfs to 750 cfs in under 2 […]

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

I saw it.  Looked legit.  Lotta dead trout. 

[netboy]

Just a couple more comments on the big drop in water levels. I fished at Bull Shoals dam yesterday and saw lots of buzzards feasting on dead trout in the depressions along the shoreline. Not to mention that the herons were too fat to fly much more than a couple feet off the water. 

Today I waded at Roundhouse Shoals on minimum flow and there were 4 boats pulled up on the shore and guys walking the shoreline. I talked to one of them and he said they were collecting sculpins that had been stranded by the big water drop. Apparently they sell them to the trout docks for bait. 

Seems like the COE could even out the water flows a bit better. Why go to absolute minimum flow in the morning to 6 or 7 units in the afternoon for a few hours?

[gotmuddy]

Like everything in the government, the COE does not communicate, nor care about what happens "downstream" of their job.