SWEPCO is again posting the generation schedule, for what that's worth!! I've done my duty best I could, you are on your own from here forward!! 😅😅.
Thanks Mike for all you've done and relaying your info.
Doesn't sound like there will be very much to report for another month anyway... 🫤
Mike, you have a great help for everyone out there!
I think everyone should be thanking you Jeff for providing the web site so they could get the information!! Thanks Jeff. Hope you and Sandy are doing well. It's 55 degrees here on the river this morning. What a perfect morning to fish, if we only had fish!!!
Jeff Maybe we should have some casting instruction and fly tying lessons at the riverside Park. And a cooking contest.
We would be up for one.
Jeff thank you for all you have done for the little Mo these past years. 🙏🙏
Yeah, thanks, Mike! It's been much appreciated. Y'all, does this mean that the repairs are finished and that things should be "back to normal" generation-wise?
Thank you, too, Jeff, for all you've done here through the years. I hope that things are going well for you and the Mrs.
Edit: Hopefully things will get back to normal by say, sometime in October. I imagine there won't by anything to fish for until the first stocking, whenever that will be. The bad kill of invertebrates and, one presumes, fish, that occurred about when generation first began, I would thing was because solvents were flushed into the river, leftover junk from the repairs. In that case, hopefully it's a one-time disaster and things will improve a lot in coming weeks and months.
MIKE, your reports have been both helpful and very interesting. Hopefully the river and Mother Nature can adapt to all the mechanical and physical manipulations impacting it and the creatures that inhabit it. Time will tell. Thanks for all you do.
I can recall back in the 70's how the river had often been referred to as a "dead river"! That there wasn't much life out there. Presumably because of the transition from a natural seasonal flow and temperatures to a tail water. Changed the entire ecosystem! Which is why the AGFC started stocking trout to begin with.
I will say that over the decades it was quite apparent that whatever invertebrates were lost in the transition certainly made a full recovery! To the point where it was teeming with aquatic life!
It'll be back. Mike - what have you seen as far as any Light Cahill hatches? We'll be getting into their peak hatch period over the next four weeks!
And thanks, everyone, for the kind words!
Sandy is fair. 🫤 Parkinson's is brutal! 😔 We did get to Colorado this summer at least! 😎