What is Lake Taneycomo?
[[File:Taneycomo fog.jpg|thumb|300px|right|{{center|Fog rising from Lake Tanycomo}}]] '''Lake Taneycomo''' is a man-made [[lake]] or [[reservoir]] on the [[White River (Arkansas)|White River]] in the [[Ozark Mountains]] of [[Taney County, Missouri]]. The reservoir is named for the county in which it is located: '''Taney Co'''unty, '''MO'''. It flows through the city of [[Branson, Missouri]]. Tanycomo is the third of four reservoirs on the White River before it enters the [[Mississippi River]]. The other three are [[Beaver Lake (Arkansas)|Beaver Lake]], [[Table Rock Lake]] and [[Bull Shoals Lake]]. == History == Lake Taneycomo widened out to be a lake with the completion of the [[Powersite Dam]], near [[Forsyth, Missouri]], in 1913.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/V8/N8/S84g.htm |title=Powersite Dam |accessdate=30 August 2010 |archive-date=10 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410004354/http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/v8/n8/s84g.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> From 1913 until 1958 it was a warm water lake.<ref name=Pfister>Fred Pfister, ''Insiders' Guide® to Branson and the Ozark Mountains'' (Guilford, CT: Insiders' Guide, 2009), p. 189</ref> The [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] completed the [[Table Rock Lake|Table Rock Dam]] in 1958.<ref>Milton D. Rafferty, ''The Ozarks, land and life'' (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001), p. 211</ref> This changed Tanycomo from a warm water lake to a very cold 58 degrees [[Farenheit]] (maximum).<ref name=Pfister/> Gone were the [[Smallmouth bass]] the White River was famous for.<ref name=Dufur>''A Paddler's Guide to Missouri'', ed. Brett Dufur (Conservation Commission of the State of Missouri, 2013), p. 67</ref> But it turned Lake Tanycomo into a world class trout fishery.{{efn|Lake Tanycomo is ranked as one of the top 5 [[Rainbow trout|Rainbow]] and [[Brown trout]] [[fisheries]] in the [[world]].<ref>Marv Fremerman, ''Bass Pro Shops Hunting a