Building Dam At Roaring River

[timsfly]

They started putting chunk rock in right below the hadicap access at the mouth of dry hollow, they said that they would be done with that today if all went well, don't know how high they will make the rock dam, but anything would help there.

They will start working higher up tomorrow.

fishing was really good this morning, i caught both of these out of the C&R area below dry hollow, one was 6 1/2 and one was 3 1/2, I missed several others, when I left the water was a nice dk. brown.

http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...hollowtrout.jpg

http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...hollowtrout.jpg

Caught them both on a #16 apricot egg, with a red spot.

[smartfish73]

is there any way you can take pics of the construction i live in joplin hard for me to find time to make it down there you could e-mail me the pics or just post the here my email is smartfish73@yahoo.com thanks for all the tips and thanks for keeping me posted on the latest rr news

[Paola Cat]

Hey Tim ... It appears that the C&R area is holding some good fish. Have you seen more good fish holding there than the rest of the park? Anybody seen that giant brown that was holding down there (you posted the picture of somebody that caught him this summer)? I fished that guy hard for 3 days and couldn't get him to hit anything. PC

[timsfly]

There are some nice fish in the C&R area right now, a lot of them are going thru the spawning motions. It looked nasty after they started putting rock in the river this morning.

The big brown last time I saw it was down near the F- hwy bridge.

I have posted a video on youtube for the dam work.

I'll take more pics this week when I'm in the park.

Sorry the video isn't better but I'm not sure about the settings, so

what you see is what you get. I don't know how high they are building the dam. I'll find out in a day or two. I'm hiding in the storm shelter right now, hope everybody else is also, sounds nasty out there. My mom and dad have been out of power for a few hrs now.

[flyfshn]

Nice Fish!! Thanks for the report....stay safe!

[timsfly]

I think we will head to the cellar a few more times tonight the way the weather looks.

[smartfish73]

thanks for the video that gives me a idea of what is going on. i am glad everyone is ok after all the storms last night.

[timsfly]

The dam is up, and it looks good, the extra water right now makes it look even better, the water is in great shape, fishing was easy this morning, just fished a bit, but managed a 18" rainbow, and a few smaller trout.

I'll put a video on later today(youtube) for everybody to see, my computer at the shop here doen't do the upload to youtube very good.

Water is clear(where they are not working) and the flow is great, the river came up about 2 feet.