Fall 2021 Brown Run

[Ryan Miloshewski]

If you don't think the fish can get all the way up, you're underestimating nature. A lot of fish are milked from 3. They get up 2 easily as well. Bet if you go down there right now there are staging fish in the pool before (after?) the steep falls, and quite a bit of them. 

[Phil Lilley]

No, the ladder has worked each year.  I have an email in to see what the numbers are like presently.  They have been running 7,000 cfs - that's plenty of rise to get fish to the base.  Yesterday they can almost 10,000.

[Phil Lilley]

Clint (hatchery manager) says brown numbers of good.  Up the ladder.

[Nick Adams]

Am I reading the app right that the water has been coming on about 3pm?

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, Nick Adams said:

Am I reading the app right that the water has been coming on about 3pm?

yep

[snagged in outlet 3]

4 hours ago, Ryan Miloshewski said:

If you don't think the fish can get all the way up, you're underestimating nature. A lot of fish are milked from 3. They get up 2 easily as well. Bet if you go down there right now there are staging fish in the pool before (after?) the steep falls, and quite a bit of them. 

I've never seen it with that much water in it.  Barely a trickle.

[Travis Swift]

On 10/6/2021 at 1:44 PM, Phil Lilley said:

Definitely less browns.  We keep losing them to BS.  But hopefully with the new strain of browns, that will change.  That's going to be a while though.

Water temp isn't bad.  Last fall I believe the water temps were warmer.  DO has been good below Lookout -- I don't know about below the dam.  I need to get up there and gage it.

Had a friend catch an absolutely beautiful hook jaw 24 inch brown out of Bull Shoals last week.  It was fat and healthy I think he said it weighed over 7 pounds.