Like I said previously, after all the rain, I’m not complaining about the hot weather.  BUT, it is a little toasty out there in the direct sun!  More warm days ahead.  Little chances of pop-up showers with temperatures in the 90s until next week.  Monday and Tuesday look like better chances for showers with temperatures in the upper 80s.  Back into the 90s by Wednesday and rain chances move out.

They had the generators off early this morning for a couple hours, then right back to four units.  Supposed to shut down late tonight for a few hours.  We’ll see.  Wish they would just leave then running at a steady 3-4 units and not shut down.

Stan on the river Sunday with Jeff and his son Owen.  Good day for these guys on the tiger tail,

Owen – 7/12/15

P&P and white grub.  Owen, who is 11 years old, is a good fly fisher. How about this nice 18″ bow?

Monday, Jim had Truman from Florida out for half a day.  Truman is a good fisher and caught fish on the ruby and hot hare’s ear nymph.  Stan had Doug and Susan from Georgia out.  Both are pretty new to fly fishing, especially Susan.  However, Susan caught a 17-1/2″ rainbow on a holographic green crackleback.  Their other good pattern was the peach egg.  Carolyn had Wanda on the water for her late birthday trip.  Fish were not real cooperative, but we managed to pull in a few fish on the ruby 2 midge and P&P midge,

Looked like a flotilla yesterday with a group of guys (related in some way, father/son, brothers, brother-in-law, etc.).  Randy and Ross were with Stan.  Randy started out early with a nice 19-1/2″ rainbow.  Carolyn had Brian and his son Nolan.   These two were brand new to fly fishing, and both caught fish stripping the tiger tail or holographic green crackleback.  We worked on nymphing earlier, but could not find a consistently good pattern they would take.   Brian was pretty happy with his nice, fat 18″ rainbow he caught on the tiger tail.   Nolan was pretty happy too with this nice 16″ rainbow.  Dana and his guys, Rocket and Ryan were catching fish on the red d-rib midge, P&P and rusty midge.  Jim had two more new to fly fishing guys, Joe and

Joe Paul – 7/14/15

Paul.  After some basic instruction, they caught a few fish on the ruby midge and hot hare’s ear nymph.  Hot, but fun day!

Finally, it has quit raining.  It has been an interesting week with all the rain, flooding, road closings, and even some water rescues.  Fortunately, no injuries and no major property damage.  Certainly tore up some roads and a parking lot up the street.  I think a few cars on a car lot were damaged.  We are now in a heat wave, but like I said, I’m not complaining.  I am seeing very little chances of rain over the next 7 days.  Tuesday has a 40% chance of afternoon showers.  That could certainly change by then.

Looks like we will see four units running 24 hours/day for a while.  They might cut back a little Monday or after Monday.  Remains to be seen.  The Corp is addressing a lot of issues with all this water in the system.

Stan squeeked in a half-day trip last Wednesday when he took Susan and Lionel out for half a day.  They just got to the take out and the sky opened up.  It was a ruby 2 and peach egg pattern day for these two.

Jim and his folks, Wendy and Roger, from Wisconsin did not fair as well on Thursday.  They fished most of the morning in on and off rain, more on than off.  They caught fish on the ruby, ruby 2 and hot hare’s ear nymph.

Saturday, Carolyn took Jeff and his son Jack out for the morning.  We worked hard and caught a respectable number of fish on the tiger tail, peach egg and ruby 2.  Both can throw a pretty good line and their best pattern was probably stripping the tiger tail on the 3.9 ips sinking leader.  Stan was out with Tracy and his daughter, Brighton.  Their best pattern was the peach egg pattern.

As I sit here writing, it is raining frogs and catfish!  As we have experiences for the past several weeks, we are under a flash flood warning…..again!  Forecast is for more rain off and on through tomorrow and possibly into Thursday.  Better get started on the ark!

Stan on the water all day yesterday with Dan and Lorne.  These two guys are here for the annual antique fishing show being held in Springfield, Mo. this year.  Couple of fun guys with great knowledge of antique fishing gear of all kind.  They had a great day on the water with the tiger tail and insect green soft hackle.  Brian and his son, Dustin, spent the day with Dana.  Very good day for these guys two.  They were fishing the size 16 red d-ribbed midge, peach egg and ruby 2 dropper.  They saw all 5 eagles on their float out!  Nice finish to the perfect day.

Beautiful day today.  Small chance for some rain today, but later in the day.  Tuesday’s forecast is a pretty good chance for thunderstorms.  Chances again on Wednesday; then slight on Thursday and no rain predicted for Friday through the weekend!  Temps staying unseasonably cool until Friday when we get back into the 90s.

Generation projection for today was four units all day.  However, some time after 10:00 a.m., they shut it down to 2 units.  Right now, Taneycomo is at 707.7 feet and the cfs is 6,423.  To be continued…….

Mark – 7/4/15

Stan on the water all day the 4th with Mark from the St. Louis area.  Good day for them on the tiger tail and ruby 2.  Even caught a few on a light olive soft hackle.

Yesterday, Dana had Paul and Andrew our for half a day.  They did well on the red d-rib midge, ruby 2, and peach egg.  Had a couple browns in their mix.  Darrell and Carolyn had our long time customers and friends from Louisiana, the Kerrs, out for the day.  Always a fun day and usually lots of action.  Yesterday was no exception.  Albert and James Albert in Darrell’s boat were catching on the ruby 2, tiger tail and JQ streamer.  Dawn in Carolyn’s boat caught fish on the ruby 2, ruby, P&P, copperhead black midge, lightning bug, light olive soft hackle and a few on the tiger tail.  Had a couple browns in our mix.  As a matter of fact, the last fish for the day was a nice brown.

Rain!  What we need is a little more rain.  NOT!  Forecast for today is 60% chance of rain.  Just got off the water and we had a 5-10 minute shower while we were out there and another good downpour right after we got back to the shop.  Maybe that will be it for the rest of the day.  Tomorrow’s chances are pretty slim.  Sunday is calling for afternoon showers and Monday says showers late.

Four generators running today and that remains constant through Monday.  No reason to think it will not continue this way for a while.  Everyone has lots of water.

Sunday Stan had Mike from Iowa on the water late Sunday.  Good day for Mike stripping the tiger tail and drifting the ruby 2 under the big ruby

Madison – 6/29/15

Carolyn got to take new fly fishers, Dad (Darren) and daughter (Madison) out for their first time fly fishing Monday.  I think these two will be doing a lot of fly fishing together over the years…..certainly hope so.  They both picked up casting quickly and looked good.  Great, fun day on the water.  We started out working on the roll cast, then the regular cast and some work on line handling with a fish on.  Paid off as both of them were throwing some good lines and definitely catching fish on the black copperhead midge, ruby 2,  and stripping the tiger tail.  They are getting ready for a family trip out to Montana and Wyoming.  Gina had Dale and his friend Doug out for the day.  They had a great day on the ruby 2, JQ streamer and tiger tail

Dale – 6/29/15

This was Doug’s first time fly fishing and

Doug – 6/29/15

he was a natural.

Sunday Stan had Mike from Iowa on the water late Sunday.  Good day for Mike stripping the tiger tail and drifting the ruby 2 under the big ruby.

Jacob – 6/30/15

Tuesday, Darrell took David and his son, Jacob out for half a day.  Very good day for these guys on the ruby 2 and the JQ streamer.  Stan had a couple from Tennessee, James and Lisa out for the morning.  They had a fun day catching on the ruby with the ruby 2 dropper and the white grub.  This was Lisa’s first experience with a fly rod and she did very well.  Carolyn had Gerrie and Rob out for their first day of three days they booked of fishing.  Don’t try to take a picture of these two when they catch a double (both hook and bring

Gerrie – 6/30/15

in a fish at the same time).  What a fun day on the lightning bug under the big ruby or stripping the tiger tail.

Chuck and Laura from Kansas fished with Stan all day Wednesday.  Lots of fish for these guys on the tiger tail and big ruby with the ruby 2 dropper.  Gina took Derek and his son Bart out for half a day.  Lots of first for these two fishers, first drift boat trip, first time catching a brown (we are still catching lots of browns), and first time streamer

Bart – 7/1/15

fishing.  They were stripping the tiger tail and JQ streamer or drifting the ruby 2 or black copperhead midge.

Derek – 7/1/15

Carolyn had Gerrie and Rob out for their second day.  Another good day, but not quite as good as the day before.

Thursday, Tom from the Kansas City area hit the water with Carolyn for a half day trip.  It almost came to an immediate stop when we looked at the chocolate water!  Lots of rain Thursday morning and every stream was running.  In all the years I have fished Taneycomo I have never seen the upper area look like this!  We decided we’d try a few places to see if anything could find our flies, and if not, off the water and try another day.  First fish to the boat was a beautiful 17 inch brown.  Great!  Well, as it turned out, water started clearing and we started picking a few fish.  Turned out to not be a bad day, but certainly not a banner day and Tom worked for every fish he caught.   Stripping the tiger tail was the best way to go that day.

Friday was Gerrie and Rob’s last day with Carolyn.  What an ending!  Great day,  The rain held off and the fish were hungry.  They were eating so well that several of the fish we caught had their mouth’s full of tiny scuds, midge pupa and worms!  How could they even think about eating one of our midges?

Rob – 7/3/15

Gerrie and Rob – 6/30/15

It was actually a little cool when I walked out of the house this morning.  Probably in the 60s.  We are expecting mid 80s today and lots of sunshine with a few clouds mixed in.  Upper 80s tomorrow and low 90s Tuesday and Wednesday.  Still very low chances of rain until Friday and Saturday.

Four generators running at about 12,800 cfs.  Table Rock is dropping slowly, but it is dropping.  This morning at 8:00 a.m. it was at 919.67 feed elevation.

Austin – 6/27/15

Austin, from Indiana, spent the day on the water with Stan yesterday.  He was impressed!  It did fish very good for them on the big ruby, ruby 2 and the Tiger Tail.  And what a great day!  Light wind, NO RAIN, not too hot….what more could one want?  All the guides have been bring in several browns lately.  Austin’s mix was no exception.  He had maybe 5 or 6 brown in his catch.

Beautiful weather predicted for today.  Sunny and highs in the low 80s.  Sunshine is the prediction for the next three days with temperatures in the 80s to low 90s.  Rain has moved out a little in the forecast.  Looks like mid week before we see chances of showers again.

Table Rock Lake is now below 920 feet.  Think that was their target for turning off the flood gates.  However, we still have a little over two feet to go before we are back at power pool.  It should not take too long with the four generators going to get this down.

Dan – 6/26/15

Dan and John from Dallas Fly Fishers on the water yesterday with Stan.  Good day for these guys on the big ruby, ruby 2 and stripping the Tiger Tail.  They still had the five gates and four generators going while they were out there yesterday.  Today, another river.  Two feet lower than yesterday,  and definitely a little less force in the water.

John – 6/26/15

Looks like temperatures will be in the 80s for a few days.  Although mid to upper 80s, it’s still better than 90s!  Chances of morning thunderstorms tomorrow with increasing chances as the day progresses.  The weekend looks dry with chances of showers sneaking in again by Tuesday.

What can I say about the water.  It’s still running.  Currently they are running two generators and still have the flood gates open, so we are experiencing approximately 19,000 cfs.  They are scheduled to turn on the third generator at 5:00 pm so the flow will increase.  Based on the projection for tomorrow, it looks like the fourth generator might be on line.  With that in mind, they may be about to shut down the flood gates.  Can we hope!?

Mike – 6/23/15

Mike and his son, Brandon from Ohio, fished with Darrell Tuesday.  Good day for these guys on the

Brandon – 6/23/15

ruby 2 and stripping the tiger tail.  Jim had Jack and his grandson, Zac out for the day.   Good day for them on the ruby, brown San Juan worm and stripping the tiger tail.

Jack and Zac didn’t get enough Tuesday so they spent another day with Jim on Wednesday.  Even better day for them on the same bugs.  I think Zac even out fished his grandfather.  Stuart, from Arkansas fish with Stan for half a day.  They had a good day on the ruby and ruby 2 midge.  Wednesday Jim spend the day fishing with Gina.  Good day for them on…you got it….ruby 2 and Tiger Tail!

Good news is, no more rain chances through Thursday.  Bad news, 60% chances Friday and Saturday.  Let’s be optimistic….40% chance it will not rain and lots of things can chance between today and Friday!

Doubt that we are going to see much of a chance in water flow for some time. They do have 3 generators on line, but they are still running the 10 flood gates at various openings, from 1.5′ to 0.5′   Probably going to keep this up until we get to at least 920′ on Table Rock and probably shoot for even lower.  Time will tell.

In the meantime, we are still drifting Taneycomo.  Although it is a big tougher for the fly fisher and to find fish, we are catching.  Darrell and

Bob – 6/20/15

Jim out Saturday with Bob and his sons, Tim and Jeremy.  Darrell had Bob and they caught several fish on a San Juan worm and the ruby 2.  Jim had they boys and it was the ruby with a brown San Juan or the hot hare’s ear nymph.   The boys are pretty new to fly fishing, so Jim spent a little time working on skills and techniques.  Stan and Carolyn had two couple from the Kansas City area out.  Stan took the guys, Mike and Jeff and Carolyn took the ladies, Vicki and Donna.  The guys had a good day on the peach egg pattern.  Vicki and Donna fished and caught a few on the egg pattern, but we had more action and caught more fish stripping the tiger tail streamer.  Two new strippers

Vicki & Donna – 6/20/15

were born!  They both preferred this method of fishing.  They even had one double (both hooked a fish at the same time).

Sunday Stan took Doug and Dixie out for half a day.  It was peach egg day for them  Dixie caught a nice 17″ rainbow.

We have had rain off and on today.  So far, not as much as they had earlier predicted, but we still have tonight.  Tomorrow looks like another day of off and on rain.  Good news….Saturday and Sunday should be warm and sunny.  An the forecast for next week looks dry.  No more until next weekend…..of course!

Needless to say, we are still seeing two generators and, so far, eight flood gates.  So far, Beaver Lake is holding it’s own.  No increased in level in 24 hours.  Table Rock is almost exactly where they were 24 hours ago.  Sounds good, but we still have not seen the effect of the runoff from this rain plus we will get more.

Jim – 6/17/15

Gina on the river yesterday with her Wednesday regular, Jim.  Not a bad day considering the water.  High water, lot water, they always have lots of fun and catch fish.  It was a ruby 2, JQ and Tiger Tail streamer day.  Stan took Mike from Texas out for half a day to show him some unique water and fishing.

Mike – 6/17/15

Big Ruby, ruby 2 and a peach egg were their patterns for the trip.  Almost forgot one of the highlight of their trip.  Sitting in the drift boat and this shadow goes under the boat.  Big paddle fish!  Stan said it was probably 6-7 feet long.