The lake level is 564 and still rising with no generation for 24-hours. They are still running Table Rock heavily to protect Branson and the Landing even though the level at Newport is still relatively high.at 25 feet. It is just below flood stage there. Table Rock is at a normal level. It has been sunny and a little windy for a couple of days and has really helped to dry things up. They should at least let out enough to compensate for the river inflow. Fishing has been slow for me for the last two weeks. I am having to work hard for only three or four fish a day. About two crappie and two bass are all that have been caught per day. You can catch white bass and small hybrids almost at will but am not interested in them. White bass are for people that cannot catch anything else and trout are for people that cannot catch white bass.(that has been my joke for years). I am a walleye, crappie, bass and catfish guy and many of them are in open water on shad still. I am glad the temperate bass are in the lake anyway. Not nearly as many shad are showing up this year as before and it is good that there will be no shad kill. It makes for easier fishing but it would be good the see the shad population rise a bit. I took two nice bass and two crappie to the pond yesterday but nothing big. They were all caught on the grub and minnow just outside the buck brush part way back in the wind blown creeks. Surface temperature is still 44 and the lake is still stained. The lake is still in good condition for fishing.
