We arrived at the tailwaters in Branson around 4 am and found that they had all of the generators off. I started out using a black wooly bigger below the second outlet. My second cast brought me my first fish, a nice 12-inch rainbow. A couple of casts later a 14-inch brown exploded on my bugger. The fishing slowed soon after this and after switching to scuds, I decided to switch to dries after seeing fish rising. I caught a couple more rainbows with a Deerfield Special as the sun was coming up. The rainbows were extremely active, especially in the shallow water. They were either picking midges off the surface or digging in the rock for scuds. I tied on a white wooly bugger and soon had another rainbow on. In all I landed 7 rainbows all between 12-14 inches and 1 nice brown before the horn below around 11 am and they turned the generators on. I fished mostly below the second outlet, but had the most success at the top of the Big Hole. The best flies were the Deerfield Special, Wooly Buggers and Wooly Worms, Scuds and Sow bugs. The water depth was 1 to 3 feet deep with the most active fish in the shallower water.