We have had boats on the water the past three days and fishing has been good.  Great father from Texas wanted to get his 10 and 12 year old sons started in fly fishing so they went out with one of our guides Saturday.  Real troopers as it was pretty cold Saturday morning.  In a couple hours they were getting their fly into the water, mending, and catching fish.  Had three boats on the water yesterday and they all did well.  Two couples from Georgia took 1/2 day drift trips.  they caught fish, learned a lot, had a fun time, and think they might make this an annual tradition.  Other boat out all day and boated 50 plus fish.  The consistent fly on all these trips was the size 18 copper dun.  One of the boats did catch some on the black and rusty midges.  I went out for a while in the afternoon to get my weekly "fix" and had a good time first with the sink-tip leader and the olive filopflume.  Saw fish taking emergers so I changed out my rig and threw some size 18 olive/brown soft hackles.  If I didn’t get a hit, it was because I had lost my fly.

Checked with the folks at the Hatchery today to confirm that Table Rock Lake has turned over.  We noticed dingy water for several days last week.  Also, we have been getting good reports on fishing.  Fish are hitting almost everything.   The dissolved oxygen has been bouncing around between 7.5 ppm and 9.0 ppm which is very good for the fish and fishing!

Weather has been agreeable the past couple of days and so has the generation.  We have had no generation since Tuesday and they ran a couple of generators for little over an hour starting at 6:00 a.m.  We fished for maybe an hour yesterday at the Rockin Chair area.  Probably 12-15 people scattered from the Rocking Chair area to down below the Boat Ramp.  Caught a few fish on the olive filoplume on a sink tip and then switched over to black wooly bugger.  They liked the black wooly best.  Stan was up stream trying some new bugs.  Nothing spectacular on the new bugs…..back to the drawing board.  But, our regulars did okay.  The Burgundy Midge and Copper Dun were working.   Did note they were taking pretty soft.  One of our friends fished the Pointe area yesterday.  He did well on a crackleback.   Think he said it was a light cream color.

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Good news is that fishing has been good.  Bad news is that wading has been greatly curtailed.  They have been running water almost non-stop all week.  It has been off for 4-5 hours starting at midnight, but for the rest of the time, they are running anywhere from 1 to even 4 generators. 

Had trips out last week and they caught a good number of trout.  Copper Dun, size 18 is still catching fish as it the Burgundy Midge ( mainly in the morning).  A couple we had out last week were celebrating their 1st anniversary.  Even though it was a little nippy, with hot soup for lunch, they made it through the day.  Mike caught lots of fish and was a very happy husband when they came off the water.  Anastasia when along to take pictures.

Trip yesterday started out with three generators running and it was down to one by the time they came off a ittle after noon.  Had a pretty good day on the Burgundy Midge, blood worm and sculpin.

Missed the bullet with the weather.  Today it is overcast, with light drizzle.  They are forecasting 1-2 inches of snow for later today but it should be gone by tomorrow as we are supposed to have sun and temps in the mid 30s.  Right now they are running two generators and the tailwater level is 704.8.  One could almost fish that.  Definitely could get in around the outlets!

Know the folks fishing up by the hatchery have been doing very well on gray scuds and red or orange San Juan worms.  Guy that came in and purchased a new outfit from us said he has had two of the best days (this week) on the water that he has had in a long time!

Our very first guided customer in 1997, Doc from Tulsa, OK, and his good friend Bob spent the day on the water with Stan on Thursday. Water was on when they started, so they fished the red tunghead midge.  Once the water was turned off at 9:00 a.m., they went to the Burgundy Midge.  Good thing Stan was between the two as they were frequently sparring back and forth as to who has the most or biggest fish. Lots of fish to the net, lots of fish that never made it to the net and as many with sore lips wondering where the fly went. Read the rest of this entry »

Water has been very erratic this week. They have turned on the generators about every 4-6 hours after the water has dropped, keeping it on for 2-3 hours. The good news is that fishing has been good. Some awesome midge hatches and from what some customers described, a caddis hatch two days ago. The Burgundy midge, red tunghead (high water), and small olive or dark olive hackles have been working. When the sun was out, the P&P soft hackle was working.