Hot is the word for temperatures right now.  90 is predicted for today and the rest of the week looks like 80s to 90s all the way through the weekend.  Our rain chances for Monday have backed off a little…only 40% chance now with possibility of scattered showers in the a.m.  Next weekend is looking like 50-60% chance of showers.

Flood gates are still open, but rumor has it that once Table Rock gets to around 917 feet, they might shut off the flood gates.  Since 917 is power pool this time of the year, we might also see no generators unless there is a demand for power.  And, with the temperatures the way they are right now, we will probably have some power demands somewhere.

Fishing continues to be good.  Darrell on the water for half a day yesterday with Greg and Dennis from Texas.  Very good day for these guys on the rusty midge under the big ruby.  Scott and “Rizzo” were on the water with Jim again.  They had fished with him Friday.  Another good day on the hot hare’s ear or copperhead black zebra midges under the ruby.  Stan had an afternoon half day trip with Lance and his son, Matthew.  They are from Texas but Matthew is attending college in Columbia. MO.  Good day for these new fly fishers on the ruby 2 under the big ruby.

Love this dry spell.  Looks like nothing of major concern until this coming Monday when there is an 80% chance of showers and thunderstorms.  We can always hope they disappear.  Next week looks like a little more chance for rain scatter throughout the week.

And the flood gates and two generators saga continue.  No change in sight right now.

Fishing continues to be good.  Roger and Gary from Colorado were on the water for half a day with Stan on Wednesday.  Good day for these two on the usual big ruby and ruby 2 or P&P dropper.  The fish are really starting to lay up in their normal high-water spots.  Jim had John from Arizona out all day.  They had a very good day on his regular patterns, ruby with hot hare’s ear or ruby 2 dropper.  John brought a nice 21 incher to the boat.

Gary – 6/4/15

Gary was surprised when he got on the river with Stan Thursday to find this good of fishing in Missouri!   Good day for him on the big ruby with the ruby 2 or P&P dropper.  Darrell had Lee and Steve from Oklahoma out for half a day.  They thought they would mix up

Steve – 6/4/15

their golfing with a little bit of fishing.  Good day for these guys too.   If I remember correctly, Steve is pretty new, if not brand new to fly fishing.  Carolyn had

Jim – 6/4/15

Jim from Arkansas out all day.  Very good day for Jim.  Some hookups but lots of misses stripping the JQ streamer on the 3.9 ips sinking leader.  Most of the fish were on the ruby 2 dropper in most cases either from the big ruby or a peach egg pattern.  We actually caught one fat female full of eggs!  Jim pulled this nice 17 inch bow almost off he bank.  Sorry the picture really doesn’t do him (the fish) justice.  He was beautiful!

Looks like we might have two or three sunny days in store for us.  Saturday’s forecast is for morning showers with temperatures in the upper 80s.  Ugh.  Sounds hot and humid to me.  Next week is looking “ify” with 60% chances of rain for Monday through Thursday.

We continue to see ten flood gates and the two generators.  No major changes in the water flows.  Table Rock Lake is holding at 919 feet.

Rod – 5/31/15

Jim and Stan on the water Sunday with a group from here in Missouri.  Stan took Rod and Barry.  Barry has fished with him before and could hardly wait and see what we did with ten flood gates open.  Ha! Good day for the guys on the big ruby and ruby 2 dropper

Barry – 5/31/15

Jim’s guys, Gene and Aaron are fairly new to fly fishing, and they had a whole lot of instruction while catching fish on the ruby, hot hare’s ear, and bug eye bugger.

Tuesday, Jim and Paul from Kansas spent the morning on the water with Jim  Very good day for these guys on the big ruby with the little ruby

Mike – 6/2/15

dropper or the hot hare’s ear.  Darrell’s guys, Mike and Jeff had a great day with the big ruby, ruby 2 and copperhead black zebra midge.  Can you tell these two guys are brothers?

Jeff- 6/2/15

Ken and Tom fished with Stan most of the day.  Yep, the usual patterns, big ruby and ruby 2 dropper.  If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.  They are working!  Tom even pulled out a nice brown.

Tom – 6/2/15

Looks like we might see several days of no rain!  Yeah!  By the weekend, there is an increased chance for rain on Saturday, with slight chances for next Sunday and through the early part of next week.  Cross your fingers.

Lots of water moving down the river.  Beaver is making very little headway in dropping.  They are just barely a half foot under flood pool.  Table Rock is now at 919 feet and still flowing ten flood gates and two generators.  Bull Shoals is about ten feel above power pool but they still have room to go.  We need a long spell of no rain so all the lakes can get drained and back to normal.

Gary and Bob from Oklahoma spent last Thursday on the water with Stan.  Worked hard but they caught fish on the big ruby with the ruby 2 dropper.  Sam, Vickie and John spent a second day on the water.  This time Sam was with Darrell and Vickie and John fished again with Carolyn.  Pretty much the same combination of big ruby & ruby 2

Stephen – 5/28/15

dropper.  Dana had Stephen and his son, Gyer out for morning.  Dana had them on the red d-ribbed midge with a ruby 2 dropper.  I’m not certain if they fished or Dana was getting all the information he could from Gyer after Dana discovered Gyer was a sushi chef in the Kansas City area. 

Ten Gates – 5/27/15

Opened up the other two flood gates this past Wednesday.  Not a major increase in flow, but we definitely know it is a little heavier than it was with just the eight.   We will see a continuation of water flow, whether it just be from the generators or a combination of generators and flood gates for some time.

Rain chances again today and tomorrow and then I think we have three days that look dry!  That would certainly be nice so we could get caught up on dumping the lakes!  With all the rain it hard to get ahead of the game.

Another great day for Jim who was out with Gina this past Wednesday.  Beautiful 17 inch rainbow.  Black copperhead midge in the morning and then the

Jim – 5/27/15

ruby 2 in the afternoon.  They were on the water when all ten gates opened up.  Didn’t hurt Jim’s fishing any and it turned out to be a beautiful day.  Stan had one of his regular regulars out too.  Gene, from Kansas, made his annual visit to fish Taneycomo.  I think this is the most water he has seen as I don’t think he missed the year of the flood in 2011.  They had a good day on the ruby 2 dropped from a peach egg pattern.  Don and Tim from Virginia spent the morning with Jim.  First time for Tim so he spent part of his time learning the “how’s”.  Good day for these guys on the ruby/ruby combination or the hot hare’s ear dropper.

Flood Gates – 5/25/15

Getting rain off and on this week, but so far, we have still been able to get onto the river as the rain has been very early or late at night.  Looking at 60% chances for rain Thursday through the weekend.  We’ll just have to wait and see.

Since Beaver Lake is very close to flood pool, Beaver has opened up their two generators which dump into Table Rock.  This, along with all the rain we have been having warrants all four generators going at Table Rock.  Unfortunately, the two units which were down a couple weeks ago are still off line.  Thus the eight flood gates.  Probably will see them open for a while to compensate for the off two units.  If you call the information number on the amount of generators going and the cfs flow, they only give you information on the generators.  They do not report on the amount of water is flowing through the flood gates.   You can always give us a call if you have a question.

Stan on the river the first day they opened the flood gates, Monday, with Tom from Nebraska.  Not a great day, but they had a good day on the big ruby with the ruby 2 dropper.  With all this water moving, Tom had a good day of exercising his skill in mending.

Yesterday, we had Sam, from the St. Louis area, and his friends Vickie and Tom who recently moved to Springfield out for half a day.  Stan kept Sam busy catching fish on the big ruby with the ruby 2 dropper or a peach egg pattern with the ruby 2 dropper.  They also caught a few on the holographic green crackleback.  Vickie and Tom were with Carolyn.  This is Vickie’s second time with a fly rod and all this current was challenging.  But she persevered and caught here first and several other fish on a fly rod yesterday.

Tom – 5/26/15

Vickie’s patterns were the big ruby and a cerise San Juan worm dropper.  Same rig was also working for Tom.

A light sprinkle yesterday morning, but pretty nice the rest of the day.  This morning we had some rain.  Looks like it has areas of clearing right now, but I think we will see more rain latter and maybe a good amount of it.  Cross your fingers…..we don’t need any more rain!

Two units yesterday and again today.  Looks like again on Monday.  We are close to power pool.  Depending on the rain, we might see a light at the end of the tunnel by next weekend.

Jim & 20″ rainbow – 5/20/15

How about this nice 20 inch rainbow Jim caught while out with Gina on Wednesday?  Yuckie day, but fishing was good.  Ruby 2, black copperhead midge and egg pattern were their flies for the day.  They had it all, rain in the a.m. and wind in the afternoon, but fishing made it worth it!

Bill and Genet spent the afternoon with Stan yesterday.  Nice brown and several rainbows made it two their boat.  Big ruby with the ruby 2

Genet – 5/22/15

dropper.  Of course!

Cool and wet so far today.  Supposed to clear up this afternoon. Tomorrow looks like a nice day with temperatures in the upper 60s and sunshine!  Slight chance for showers on Friday; increasing for the weekend.  60% on Saturday and 50% on Sunday.  Next week temperatures go from upper 70s into the 80s but up and down chances for showers all week.

Still running a solid two generators every day.  Nice thing is that the fish are where they should be.  Bad thing is it makes for difficult wading.

Gary – 5/18/15

Darrell on the river Monday with Gary from Oklahoma.  Very good day for Gary on the ruby 2 and P&P midges. Good quality as well as quantity of fish to the boat.  Ed, from Arkansas, spent half a day with Stan.  They too had very good day.  Ruby 2 under the big ruby most of the trip were their patterns.  Kept threating storms all day, but both trips pulled it off

Will – 5/19/15

Awesome grandsons, and wonderful grandparents were Gina and Carolyn’s treats to take out on Tuesday.  Kathi and Bill took Will and Ryan out for a day of fly fishing.  The young men had both done a little fly fishing several years ago, but with all their other activities, you know how that

Ryan – 5/19/15

goes….so this was a day of dusting off the cobwebs for them.  Bill and Will were with Gina and they fished a big ruby with a ruby 2 dropper most of the day.  Carolyn had Kathi and

Ryan.  It was the copperhead black zebra under the big ruby most of our day.  Obviously, it didn’t take the

Kathi – 5/19/15

guys very long to get with it.  It was a catching day for everyone.  And again, nice quality fish.  Several 16 inchers as well as a few 17 to 17+ inchers.

Bill – 5/19/15

Thunder boomers early this morning and sounded like lots of rain.  So far, it is looking pretty good for the rest of the day.  Slight chances for rain tomorrow and Tuesday looks like a dry day!  Yeah!  60% chance Wednesday, then slight chances Thursday and Friday.  Back to 50% by the weekend.

Two units all weekend and projected again tomorrow.  Although we are slightly below power pool right now, with the rain we received this morning, we will probably be above power pool tomorrow.  We’ll just have to see what they do with the water this coming week.

Trips out the past couple days.  Darrell took Dave and Jeff, from

Lee – 5/15/15

Kansas out Friday.  Very good day for these guys on the ruby 2 and JQ streamer.  Stan and his guy, Lee, also have a very good day on the ruby 2 under the big ruby.

Saturday was a drenching day.  We not only had one downpour, but a couple more.  Thank goodness the fish don’t care.  Several of us did however.   Stan had Bill and Jason out for the morning.  Another good day on the big ruby with the ruby 2 dropper.  Ed from Kansas, spent the morning on the river with Darrell.  Ruby 2 again and

Ed – 5/16/15

the JQ streamer.   Dana and Carolyn had a group from here in Missouri.  Dana took Nick and Gary and Carolyn had Tyler and Jim.  Good day and good time had by all on the ruby 2, red midge, peach egg and red San Juan worm.

Little damp this morning.  Light rain which should be gone later this morning.  However, slight chances all day.  Tomorrow we again have chances of rain….best chances are early afternoon.  More of the same for Sunday.   By Monday we are looking at very little chance for rain and Tuesday looks perfect.  Sunshine and mid 70s.  Back to 60% chances for Wednesday and Thursday, and possibly into the weekend.

Well, they turned the eight flood gates off around 3:00 p.m. yesterday.  Table Rock is at 917.0  What they ran with the flood gates was equivalent to a good, healthy four generators!  Today they have a full two generators going.

Stan and Jim both on the water yesterday.  Good day for everyone.  Jim had Billy, from Illinois out for half a day.  Good day for them on the big ruby, hot hare’s ear in a size 14, and the copperhead black

J – 5/15/15

midge.  Stan had “J” from North Carolina.  J is pretty new at fly fishing so this was a baptism by fire. J was catching on the big ruby, the ruby 2, and a peach egg pattern.