Sunny and hot the past two days.  Looks like today will be more of the same.  Forecast for tomorrow is looking like rain with possibly some hail.  Nice for Saturday but chances for rain show up again for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and slight changes for Wednesday.  We’ll see.  Our weather forecast many times do not pan out.

Since the spillways closed, they have been running two generators 24/7.  Expect to see this for several more days.  By June 1, our power pool will be 917.  Right now we are at 916.8 and dropping very slowly.  Let’s just hope we don’t get a bunch more rain!

Jim on the water Monday shortly after they shut down the spillways.  He had Brian and Tim from Oklahoma.  Needless to say, fishing was a bit off as the water was dropping during most of his trip.  They did catch some fish on the JQ streamer and ruby midge.  Worked on casting and had a good time.

Tuesday, took Dale and Tammy, father and daughter team out for half a day.  Their best pattern was the Ruby 2 midge.  Jim has one of his regulars, James, on the water.  Best pattern was the JQ streamer.  Carolyn had Clark from Illinois on his first day of fishing.  He was a glutton for punishment and booked two days!  Best pattern was mainly on the Ruby 2 midge.   Everyone worked hard to find fish.

Carolyn and Clark back on the water Wednesday.  Fish are starting to settle in after the drop in water level.  Much better day than Tuesday.  Pulled in a few on the JQ streamer with the holographic green crackleback, but best pattern was the big ruby.  A few on the Ruby 2.  Fish are definitely, fat and healthy.  Jim and Dana has a father and two sons on the water.  Jim had Dad, Trae and they were catching on the big ruby and ruby 2.  Dana’s guys, Tyler and Preston caught on the ruby 2.

Nice to be back on the water.  Things should just start getting better as the fish get settled.

Nice day yesterday.  Not too hot but warm enough with the sun.  However, the wind was a fit!  Today we are having some light showers.  Looks like most of it will go north of us.  Thursday has a 40% chance for rain and after that it looks like nothing for the next week!

No change in generation.  Still running 9 spillways and two generators.  Table Rock has maybe dropped a half a foot in the past two days.  Hopefully, we won’t get much more rain and we can start making some progress.

Ron and Kathy from Louisiana fished with Carolyn yesterday.  They have been fishing with us since 2008!  The wind and high water didn’t help any, but they brought some fish to the boat, mainly on the cerise San Juan worm dropped from the big ruby.  Fish were nice and fat.  They must be getting lots of food.   It was nice just being on the water and it was a fun day!

This year is streaming by!  Can’t believe it’s already May!  Just had a another bout of rain yesterday.  Forecast is 80% for tomorrow.  We set a record here for the amount of rain in April.  Think we broke the 1945 record.  Temperatures are in the upper 60s and low 70s.  Let’s hope this passes pretty soon.

Of course, with all the rain, we still have two generators and nine spillways open.  As we mentioned before, this is just a little more water than they normally release with four generators.  It’s still a lot of water.

Dana on the water last Thursday with Dirk from Kansas.  Pretty good half day for them on the white mop fly.

They just keep forecasting rain.  Some days we get it and on other days we get nothing.  Really hard to plan anything!  Forecasting a warm day tomorrow in the low 80s.  Tuesday’s forecast calls for 70% chance of strong to severe thunderstorms, and Wednesday has an 80% chance for showers and storms.

Still running nine spillways and two generators.  This will probably continue for several more days or weeks, depending on how much rain we really get.

Carolyn on the water with John and Nancy from Florida last Thursday.  We finally found a soft spot and landed several trout on the black copperhead and ruby 2 midges.  Beautiful day!

Friday, Darren and Dana had a group out.  Darren took Ryan and Ryan.  Worked hard and caught a couple fish on the black copperhead midge.

Spencer – 4/25/25

Dana took Spencer and he also landed a couple fish but on the Ruby 2 midge.

Martin – 4/26/25

Martin went out Saturday with Darren and they landed a few fish on the black copperhead midge.  Jim had Gary and Steve on the water.  They caught several on a #8 JQ streamer.

Wow!  Lots of rain the past few days.  Soooo, yesterday they opened up nine spillways.  Again, however, they are generating just a little more than if they had all four generators going.  As I mentioned earlier, two generators are down for maintenance.  But we certainly do have a lot of water!  Beaver, just above Table Rock, opened up some spillways also.  They are getting close to their flood pool.  That, of course, is dumping more water into Table Rock.  Think we have had enough rain now.  Chances for some rain this afternoon.  Monday and Tuesday are looking day, but chances move in again for Wednesday through Friday.

Darren on the water Thursday with Won and Tyler.  Fortunately, they had the advantage of only two generators as they are new fly fishers.  Caught some fish on the black copperhead midge.

The big rain we had about two weeks ago resulted in nine spillways being open with two generators running.  Part of the reason they had to open spillways is that two of the generators are down for maintenance.  However, they finally shut the spillways down this morning.  Yeah!   The do still have two generators running and I think we will see that trend for several more days.  They want to get the lake level down to power pool of 915 feet.  Right now we are at 915.77 feet.

Weather has been pretty nice but we are in for some more rain this weekend.  Let’s cross our fingers that it is not as much as we had with the storms we had a couple weeks ago.  Temperatures are in the 70s for the most part, but chances of rain Friday through Sunday and again starting Wednesday into the weekend.

Before the rains, Jim had Greg and Rebekah from Virginia on the water for half a day.  Tough day due to the high winds!  Despite being blown around, they caught some fish on the JQ streamer and a ruby 2 midge.

A week ago this past Tuesday, Dana took Sam from Texas out for half a day.  We now had lots of water so they went the full run.  Tough day but caught fish  on a crackleback or scud.  He also went out again on Thursday.  Jim had the same scenario, he had Jerry our on Tuesday and Thursday.  They caught some fish on the ruby 2 midge.

Sunday, Mike from Lee’s Summit, spent half a day on the water with Jim.  Still had heavy wind and lots of water problems but they had a good day on the JQ streamer and ruby 2 midge.

Landon took Ryan out of Ohio out for half a day Monday.  Good day for them on the bug eyed bugger and ruby 2 midge.

Gary – 4/15/25

Tuesday, Carolyn took Gary and his grandson Alex out for the day.  This was Alex’s first catch of a trout on a fly rod and grandpa was happy.  Caught a few on the cerise San Juan Worm but best pattern was a cream mop fly under the big ruby.  Fun day!

Alex – 4/15/25

Nice today with the temperatures topping out in the low 70s.  Sun is shinning and very little wind!  With this front that came through, temperatures tomorrow will only be in the upper 50’s but after that 70s for Tuesday and Wednesday, when another front comes through.  Possibility of rain Wednesday through Saturday.  We need it.

Generation schedule over the weekend was a low one unit all day both days.  Tomorrow it is supposed to be off all day.  We will see.

Darren out Thursday with Ken from Lee’s Summit.  Good day for him on the red midge and the black copperhead midge.  Jim had a couple of his regulars, Dwan and Robert.  They had a good day on the JQ streamers, ruby midge and the cream mop fly.

Friday, Dana took Ethan and Ed out for a full day.  Ruby 2 and cerise San Juan worm were their best patterns.

Beautiful weather!  It will hit the low 80s today with lots of sunshine.  70s through the weekend with chances of rain Sunday.  Next weekend will start out in the mid 50s, but by Tuesday it will be upper 60s and finished out the week in the 70s.

Generation has been two or three units during the morning hours then down to one unit by 10:00 or 11:00 a.m.  Yesterday, they ran it a little longer but eventually cut it back to the low one unit.  Today and tomorrow are projecting a low one unit all day.

Monday, Dana, Darren and Jim took a group from New Mexico out for half a day.  It was in celebration of Jim’s 78th birthday.  Dana’ couple, Abby and John had a good day on the cream mop fly.  Darren had Nadine and Ben fishing a Ruby 2 or black and silver midges.  Jim’s guys, Jim and Steve didn’t fair as well.  No best flies but they did bring a few fish to the boat.

Michael & Carter – 3/25/25

Tuesday, one of Jim’s regulars Frank, from Belton, MO. went out for half a day.  Pretty steady fishing day

Carter’s first fish on fly rod – 3/25/25

for them on the Ruby midge, tan mop and a JQ streamer.  Michael and his grandson, Carter fished with Gina.  Fun day for them.  This was Carter’s first fly fishing trip.  They landed some fish on the Ruby 2 midge.

Carolyn took Tom and Sandy out for a half day float Wednesday.  Beautiful day with just brief periods of wind.  Nothing like we have been having.  Sandy had not been fly fishing for quite a while so we worked a little on casting.  It was a good day for them on the Ruby 2 and black copperhead midges.  Dana had one of his regular, regulars, George on the water for half a day.  They had a good day on the Ruby 2 midge.

Sandy – 3/26/25

Looks like we are in for several nice days.  Temperatures in the low 70s for the most part.  Some chances for rain sneaking in toward the end of the week and into the weekend.

No generation all day this weekend.  Three units on tomorrow morning, then off at 10:00 or 11:00 a.m. with a low one unit running most of the balance of the day.

Brian -03/20/25

Dana on the water Thursday with Brian from Minnesota.  Good day for them on the ruby 2 midge.

Taz spent part of Friday on the water with Carolyn.  He was wanting to hone his skills, so we spent some time working on the various casts.  Then he finished up the outing catching some trout on the the Ruby 2 midge.

Saturday, Dana and Carolyn took a group out for half a day.  Don and Tim fished with Carolyn.

Don – 3/22/25

They wanted to learn the river on where and how to fish as Don has his own drift boat.  Dana had Dan and Mike who are both pretty new to fly fishing.  Dana’s guys caught some fish on the Ruby 2 midge.

Tim -03/22/25

Car0lyn guys were catching on the Ruby 2, cream mop fly and Tim threw a red soft hackle for the first time and caught a nice fish on it.  Fun day.

Having some warmer days, but several of them have also included some really mean wind!  They are projecting high winds tomorrow from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. with gusts id 50-60 mph.  Thursday looks better but temperatures are dropping to the mid 50s.  Friday and through the weekend will be mid 60s.  By late next week it’s back into the 70s.

Water off this morning at 10:00 a.m.  and the projections says it will be off all day tomorrow.

Noah – 3/16/25

Kevin and his son, Noah spent time with Carolyn on Sunday learning how to cast.  We worked on the roll cast, regular cast and shooting line.  After some time with that, it was to the water.   Unfortunately, it was a tough and windy day.  Noah did hook his first fish on a fly rod and got it to the boat.  Few others but they got away.  It will be better next time.

Monday, Dana took Jeff and Mary out for half a day.  Good day for them on the Ruby 2 midge.  Darren was on the water with Steve and Henry.

Henry – 3/17/25

They too had a good day on anything red.

Steve & Henry – 3/17/25