We have been getting rain off and on the past few days.  So far, the heaviest has been during the evening hours.  Projections are for more rain this afternoon.  Monday looks clear with slight chances (20%) Tuesday and Wednesday.  Nothing Thursday but slight, again, chances Friday and through the weekend.

The past six days have had no generation during the morning hours and generators coming on from noon to 1:00 p.m.  May have had one day in there when it was 2:00 p.m.  Bottom line, we have been able to wade in the mornings!  Same projection for tomorrow morning.

Dana and Darren on the water last Wednesday with a group from Oklahoma.  Dana’s couple, Keith and Brandi, were catching on the ruby 2 and black copperhead.   Darren’s couple, Karsen and Bailee are new to fly fishing but got some fish to the boat on the copper dun and black and silver midges and a midge larvae.

Thursday, Dana and Darren had a group of brand new guys out for a wade trip….Kody, Daryle, Anakyn, Jeremy and Hunter.  Sow bug/ scud  combo, midge emerger and a cerise San Juan worm were the patterns they used.  Kody wad the lead fly fisher and caught several.  Everyone worked on their casting and hook sets!

Carolyn took Robert and Owen out Friday.  Slow start early, but we finally found a honey hole and pulled several fish our on the ruby 2 midge or stripping the

Owen & Robert with double – 6/9/23

holographic green crackleback.  Fun day.  Owen caught his first trout on a fly rod.

Darren was out all day with Galen from Virginia.  Galen is an experienced fly fished and had a very good day on the sowbug/scud combo and stripping the Tiger

Galen – 6/9/23

Tail with a holographic green crackleback trailer.

Beautiful weather!  Sunny and a slight wind the past three days.  We did get about 20 minutes of heavy rain yesterday afternoon but that was it.  Looks like more sunny days in the mid 80s with slight chances of rain Thursday and Friday.  Up to 50% chance Saturday…..that that’s aways off.  We’ll see.

Ran water all way every day over the weekend and Monday.  Today, however, is a new day and the water is off this morning.  Looks like it will be off until noon or 1:00 p.m.  We think this trend might continue through the week.  Table Rock is just a tad above power pool and Beaver is over power pool by a little over a foot.  We’ll get a better feel when we see tomorrow’s generation schedule.

Kevin – 6/2/23

Lots of trips the past several day.  Dana on the water last Friday with Mike and Kevin.  They had a good day

Mike – 6/2/23

on the ruby 2 and black copperhead midges.  Water running then so they did the full run.   Dana had a fun day.  Jeff and Nicki brought their son Jay to catch a fish on a fly rod.  Jay did great and landed two fish on a fly rod all by himself!  They were fishing the Ruby 2 and Lil’ Rusty midges and the mop fly.  Don’t know which was bigger….the fish or his smile!

Jay – 6/2/23

Friday it was chaos!  Bachelor party for Tyler.  He’s the last one in this group to get married!  The pretty much all grew up together in Pennsylvania.  Of course, they are now scattered around, but they all gathered here in Branson for the party.

Kevin – 6/3/23

Amongst the many things they had on their agenda of stuff to do was go fly fishing!  Fun half day!  Gina hade Allen and Kevin.

Allen – 6/3/23

They were brand new to fly fishing but fast learners and landed fish on the ruby 2 and black copperhead midges under the big ruby.  We had a little over two generators going so we did the full run.  Darren had Tyler and Ryan.  They were catching on the Ruby 2 and Lil’ Rusty midges and the mop fly.  Chris and Tim fished with Dana.  Dana had Tim stripping a JQ streamer and they were catching on the Ruby

2.  Carolyn’s guys, Corey and Mango were stripping the Tiger Tail, and nymphing a Ruby 2, Cerise San Juan worm, or Lightning Bug.  All working great!

Sunday, Carolyn took Jim out for half a day.

Jim – 6/4/23

Good day for Jim on the Tiger Tail and drifting the Ruby 2 or Lightning Bug.

Monday, Darren and Carolyn took Fred , his son and his son’s girlfriend out for half a day.  Darren had Troy and Anice.  Anice is pretty new to fly fishing so Darren worked with her and got her to getting the fly into the water.  Hook set still needs some work but she is certainly getting there.  They were catching on the Ruby 2 under the

Fred – 6/5/23

Big Ruby and the White Mop Fly.  Fred was fishing with Carolyn.  He had a good day on the Ruby 2 under the Cerise San Juan worm.

Beautiful weather!!  Sunny, not much wind and temperatures in the 80s.  Had a brief shower yesterday and they are forecasting 30% chances through Saturday.  Sunday through Tuesday, 10% chances with temperatures staying in the mid to high 80s.

Off water every morning except yesterday.  Coming on around 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon.  With the warmer weather coming in, we might start seeing more generation earlier in the day.  We will just have to see.  Hope so, makes for better wading.

Jim on the water  Sunday with Andrew and his son Tate from Tennessee.  Slow day for them.  Small streamer was the only thing they brought in a few fish.

Monday, Darren had Dennis on the water.  Few misses and six rodeos but nothing to the boat.

Mark – 5/30/23

Mark from Alabama fished with Dana Tuesday.  Another toughie.  Tan b-bug and the black copperhead midge were their best patterns.

Water on yesterday and that seemed to change the trend.  Dana took one of his regulars, George, out for the day.  Much better on the ruby and P&P midges.  Even caught a brown trout.

Beautiful weather!  Sunny days, nice temperatures (upper 70s or low 80s), slight wind.  What more could one ask for.  Looks like today and tomorrow will be repeats.  Tuesday through next weekend is showing chances (40%) for rain with temperatures in the mid to upper 80s.

Water has been off most every morning then 2 or 3 units on around noon or 1:00 p.m.  This will continue, according to the SWPA projection, through Tuesday.  Unless we get lots of rain, or extreme temperatures changes. we will probably see a similar trend continue.

Daniel – 5/19/23

Carolyn had Daniel and Josh out for half a day a week ago this past Friday.  They had a good day on the ruby 2 midge under the big ruby.  We did have three units running that day.

Adam – 5/20/23

Lots of fishing going on this several days.  Dana on the water a week ago from this past Saturday with

Andy – 5/20/23

Adam and Andy from California.  Good day for them on the ruby 2 midge.

Last Thursday, Mike from Oklahoma, spent the day on the water with Dana.  Good, fun day for them catching on the JQ streamer, a gray scud and, of

Terry’s 20-1/2″ rainbow – 5/25/23

course, the Ruby 2 midge.  No generation that day so they fished the area up from the boat ramp.  Carolyn had one of her previous students on the water, Terry from Kansas, He had a very good day on the ruby 2 midge under the rusty midge and stripping the tiger tail.  His best fish was 20-1/2″!  Jim had a couple from Kansas, Ann and QJ, out for the morning.  They had a slow morning but did catch a few.  No best bug that morning.

Friday morning, Carolyn took Ann and

Ann – 5/26/23

QJ – 5/26/23

QJ out for half a day.  Different day.  The had a good day on the ruby 2 midge.  When the fish got tired of that, they switched to the tiger tail and finished up the morning with more fish.  Jim had some new fly fishers, Chris and Allison from Iowa, on the river.  They were learning and catching on the ruby and a #12 Copes.

Saturday, Erick and Elizabeth fished with Dana.  P&P and ruby 2 midges.

Having some nice weather.  Beautiful days in the upper 70s or low 80s.  Slight chance for some rain tonight then back into the low 80s tomorrow followed by upper 70s Friday and Saturday and low 80s through the weekend and into next week.

Seeing no generation during the morning hours, then two, three or four units on for a while in the late morning or early afternoon for five to six hours.

Chris – 5/21/23

Fishing has been great.  Darren on the water here Sunday.  (They had waded Norfork the day before) Good day for Chris and John on the copper dun midge, rainbow and micro scuds.  John is new and had a wonderful time.  Dana had

Dennis – 5/21/23

Dennis from Texas on the water.  Dennis was catching on the ruby 2 midge and stripping a JQ streamer.

Kimi – 5/22/23

Monday, Carolyn had a couple newbies on the water, Jim and Kimi from Texas.  Their best fly was a rusty midge.  They had two doubles

Jim – 5/22/23

(both had a fish on at the same time) down by Eagle Island.  What fun!

Tuesday, Carolyn took Adam and Suzette out for half a day.

Adam – 5/23/23

They had taken our two-day fly fishing school over a year ago and Suzette wanted a little refreshing on casting.  Adam hits the water a bit more than Suzette.  After a little refreshing, she was throwing a great line.  Good enough we pulled streamers all morning.  The midge and scud bit was off, so we switched to a 56er and spent the morning catching fish.  Wonderful day!

Just have to comment on the great quality of the fish we are catching.  They are all healthy, and FAT!  And, we are catching more fish on a regular basis above 17 inches!

We have now seen four generators, and for a few days, a couple of gates open, all day every day since early Monday morning.  Yesterday, they closed down the two gates so we are just a four generators, or 13000 cfs +/- every day.

According to the weather forecast, and we know how accurate that is, we have a 95% chance of heavy rain tomorrow (Friday).  After that, very slight chances every day into next week.  Temperatures running in the mid 70s to low 80s.

Zach – 5/16/23

Gina on the water Tuesday with Brian and his son, Zach.  They had a good day with the little ruby under

Brian – 5/16/23

the big ruby and stripping a tiger tail using a sinking leader.  They had fished with Gina around eight years ago and had such a good time they had to come back.

Gary and Barry from Lees Summit fished half a day with Carolyn.  These two guys have fished with us since 2007!  Very good and fun day on the water.  Early part of the day was a little slow, but it finally picked up and they stayed busy bringing fish.  Ruby 2 or black copperhead midges under the big ruby.

Barry – 5/17/23

Gary – 5/16/23

Wednesday, Gary and Barry had to hit the water for another half day with Carolyn.  Another very good day.  Early it was either a cerise or red San Juan worm under the big ruby.  Nothing fast and furious, but again, later in the day fishing started picking up and they were again catching on the ruby 2 or back copperhead midges.  Caught a couple stripping the golden variant leech.  Fun day fishing with these two!  Dana had Alec and Jim on the water.  They were out all day catching on the ruby 2, P&P and black copperhead midges.   Almost forgot, Murphy was out and about.

Murphy

Alec – 5/17/23

Had a bit of rain last week.  Forecasting slight chances for rain today, tomorrow and even Tuesday.  30% chance for Tuesday.  Wednesday and Thursday are both dry, then slight chances show up again.  Temperatures in the 70s and 80s.

Seeing some generation after all the rain we had last week.  Generators were off Friday until 1:00 p.m. when they were supposed to fire up two units.  Actually fired up three and eventually four.  Two to four units yesterday and again today.  Looks like more of the same tomorrow.

Dean – 5/12/23

Dana on the water Friday with Seth and Natalie from Blue Springs.  They boated a few fish on the P&P midge and a gray scud.  Carolyn had Dean from Kansas out again.  He had a good day…..after a slow start……on a #16 ruby 2 midge.

Doc – 5/12/23

Darren’s guys, Doc and David were catching on micro scuds and midges.

Gina was on the water Saturday with one of her regulars, Dale.  They had a good day on the tiger tail, black midge and sparkle Jan Juan worm.  Fished the full run as they had four units running.

Rain moved in last night and will continue into this afternoon.  Looks like a little more rain tomorrow morning.  Temperatures will continue in the 80s and slight chances for rain continue through the weekend.

Generation has been spastic.  Yesterday they turned on two units at 2:00 p.m. for a couple hours then ramped it up to four units.  Today, they turned on two units at 10:00 a.m. and it will continue all day at that level.  Tomorrow will be another surprise.

Dana on the water last Friday with Steven and Kyle.  Tough day.  Water came on early and when it did, everything went south.  When the generators came on, it turned the water to junk!  Cleaning flies every cast.  Fortunately, Steven attended the one-day fly fishing school with Carolyn on Saturday and the water was more agreeable.  He managed to get several to the net while working on presentations.

Monday, Dana took one of his regulars for many years, Jeff, and his friend Don.  They had a good day on a gray scud, black copperhead and ruby 2 midges.

Chris – 5/10/23

Wednesday, Dana and Carolyn had a group from Texas, Bill, Chris and Nick.  Dana took Chris and

Nick – 5/10/23

Nick and Carolyn had Bill.  Started out really slow, but we finally found a pocket of fish and Bill had a good day catching on the ruby 2 midge.  Dana’s guys picked a few on the ruby 2.   Darren had Ron from Pennsylvania out wading.  They were catching on a micro scud and a #22 midge.

We have been having beautiful weather.  Days in the 70s and lots of sunshine.  Unfortunately, we are expecting some weather to move in late tonight and during the morning hours tomorrow.  The weekend looks like 80s and slight (20-30%) chances for rain through next week.

Table Rock is below power pool.  One to two units of generation has been the trend over the past several days.  Today, there is no generation except for a low one unit late this afternoon when they will turn on a low one for only one hour.  Then, it will go back to zero generation.   Unless we get a lot of rain, the trend might be no generation over the weekend.  Just have to cross our fingers and wait and see.

Darren on the water late Friday.  He had Martin and Spencer on the water for half a day.  Very good day for these guys on the rusty, black copperhead and copper dun midges.  Low flow for the trip so they stayed above the boat ramp.

Gary – 4/30/23

Sunday, Carolyn took Gary and his friend Michael out for the morning.  Another very good day.  They were mainly catching on the ruby 2 and rusty midges.

Dana had one of his regular, regulars, George on the water Monday and Tuesday.  They had a good couple of good days on the black copperhead and ruby 2 midges under the big ruby.  Lost a nice one!

Weather has been pretty nice this past week.  Only negative has been the wind.  Yesterday was very windy, but the sun was shining and temperatures were pretty comfortable.  Looking at chances for rain scattered throughout the rest of this week with temperatures in the low to mid 60s.

The past two days we have had a low one unit running.  This is wadeable in several different locations on the river.  If we do not get a lot of rain over the next several days, we will probably see this trend continue for a while, unless it really starts warming up a lot and they need power.

Luke – 4/19/23

Dana on the water last Wednesday with Chris and his son Luke.  Chris and Luke had been on a turkey hunting trip and Luke got his first turkey!  Decided to make the rounds and see if he could get his first trout.  New fly fishers had a good time.  Caught some on the black copperhead midge.

Fred and Ellen took our Orvis Fly Fishing School last year and decided to come back and see how

Fred with 20 incher – 4/21/23

our fishery was.  They spend half a day on the water with Carolyn last Friday.  Good day for the first two and a half hours on the ruby 2 midge.  Then, SWPA turned on three units and fishing went south!  Picked up a couple more on our drift out, but it was tough.

Ellen – 4/22/23

Saturday. They went out again with Dana.  Another good day plus they did not turn on any more units.  This time it was the black copperhead midge.

Monday, Darren had Dennis from Florida on the water.  Erratic generation early in the day so they started at 11:00.  Low one unit going and Dennis had a good day on the

Kathleen – 4/24/23

rusty midge.  Kathleen was out with Carolyn and they caught some fish on the rusty, the ruby and a black copperhead.