Sac River Jim

you might try running up son's creek and go in greisser. i havent heard any reports from my friends in greenfield but if i hear anything the next couple days i'll send you a pm.

we'll get together i'm sure we are practically neighbors and i'll let you know when the whites walleye and crappies start up son's creek up on stockton. maybe we can try to get on em a couple times this spring.

nice mess of crappie, thnx for a good report.

Spring training always means SPRING is around the corner and none to too soon this year!!!!! I forgot spring training had even started so i guess i better start checking fox sports midwest and see if i can pick up a game or two.

welcome to the site

ok will do. it will be on stockton probly out of either ruark or mutton creek

i've got one burroughed under my cabinet shop he comes out every night and drives my dogs nuts. guess i need to set the live trap again theyve been a real nuissance around here for years.

it was a real pleasure to get to meet and fish with you. that north wind made for pretty hard fishing conditions but sometimes the best part of fishing is just being on the water with friends. i hope we can get together another time under better weather conditions. tightlines my friend.

First of all I'd like to thank Phil, his family and his staff I was very impressed with everyone and everything. Phil was gracious enough to allow me to bring my mother and sister under the fishing buddy plan and set us up with accommadations to suite our needs. i feel he went out of his way to ensure that we had everything we needed from a larger cabin to even providing my sister with a phone line so she could hook up her fax machine for her family business. Our two bedroom cabin was immaculate and very comfortable for the three of us. The staff was kind, courteous and treated us like they had known us for a long time. I just could not have expected anything nicer than the the stay we had there. Several years ago I managed a dock on a resort just up the lake from Lilley's and I noticed alot of little things that sets Lilley's resort apart from some others I have stayed at over the years. The dock itself was very clean and organized and his fleet of boats were impressive. I rented a G3 bass boat w/a 90 yamaha on it for 2 days and made 4 trips down past the landing and 2 trips up to Fall Creek and only used 4.5gal of fuel. when I turned the boat in I was pleased and surprised I didnt even come close to spending 20 dollars on fuel. The dock is set up very nicely for dock fishing and the fishing was excellent off it the whole time I was there. theres two benches on each end of the dock and he has very nice wood patio chairs set up between the stalls and all had pvc rod holders on them and even the extra little detail of cutting a slot for the neck of spinning reel to slide down in to secure it better. Alot of time when you walk on a fishing dock you will see power eggs smashed all over the deck and mono and cans and bottles all over the place but the deck on the dock was clean and very safe. The fishing cleaning stations had paper towel dispensers plastics bags and squeezies and the indoor station even had an underwater camera set up to watch those big browns just lurking underneathe you feet. The attention to detail and the little extra things is what impressed me the most and is a credit to how well the resort is managed. I did alot of fishing on Tues. and Wed. I intended to try to get on the crappie down at the landing but the wind was blowing pretty hard straight out of the north so not only did it make it hard to hold the boat but the cold wind was pretty hard on this old mans bones too!!!! I did manage to catch a couple crappie in the 9in, class but I didn't really fish very hard for them. However I got on the trout really good both days using a drift rig and chart over pink power eggs on the dock and a jig under a strike indicator up towards and into the trophy area just above the narrows. Phil found some time on Wed. afternoon and took me up above the narrows and took me to school on jig fishing. I would adjust the depth of my stike indicator so the jig would drift just a few inches above the bottom. when the wind was creating a little chop on the surface I just let the jig float down but when we would be out of the wind I would twitch my rod tip just enough to cause a very slight ripple coming from the bobber. a brown 1/100th jig with an orange head worked best for me but I noticed Phil catching fish on white too. Most the trout we caught were of the 12 to 14 or 15in range but I was very impressed with their colors. It doesnt take a hatchery trout long feeding on scuds to develope brilliant coloring. Overal including the night fishing I did jerking a rainbow rapala stck bait off the end of the dock I caught well over 75 trout from early Tuesday morning to 8:00am Thursday morning. there were times on the dock I wud catch several fish in a row with most being 10'' to 12''. Alot did depend on how much current they were generating from the dam. When the water was rolling just enough for your drift rig to bounce and roll just off the bottom the fishing was best. Again I;d like to thank Phil and the staff at Lilley's Landing for showing us such a great time,

A very good friend of mine and Bob Bennett's lost his home to fire this morning. Mike is a member of Ozark Anglers but I'm not sure what he goes by. They lost everything but his wife and two year old little boy made it out of the house safely. Mike lives on the Son's Creek arm of Stockton and fishes alot of bass tournaments so some of you may know him. Please remember him and his family in your prayers. Bob and I want to sponsor a benefit crappie tournament for them sometime soon.

i had just gotten down to Lilley's and walked down to the dock just in time to see a fella land a 21'' rainbow. he caught it on a pink berkley power egg.

i'll be back in town on thursday i'm interested in of some of stickbaits and the box of cranks above it.

thnx for the report i'm glad you caught some nice bass.

thnx for the report ducky. i'm headed down to phil's for 3 days and it's good to know the crappie are still around the landing.

great catch and thanks for a good report

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gotta go with KDV on this one 73.12

thnx for the report and the heads up on that h2o jerk bait. i think i'll pick a couple up next im up in spfld.

I always said some the best fishermen in the country live right here in this area. Buster just justified my statement. good for you Buster.

I hope i can find the crappie when i come down next week. i'm looking forward to to doing some trout fishing too, i think i'll run down the lake one of the days and see what i can scare up down around bull creek.

Phil has been gracious enough to set my family up with a really nice vacation pkg. starting monday the 24th to thursday morning the 27th. if my trip is half as successful as Stevan's trip was I will very pleased. Congratulations on a very successful trout fishing trip at Lilley;s Landing Resort.

yup this thread stirs up memories. ive been fishing as long as i can remember. moms got a picture of me holding a nice channel cat i caught at big indian public use area down by baxter. the picture says 1964 on the back of it so that would have made me 4 yrs old. 50 yrs ago and i can still remember the big green water pump us kids would fight over who got to go get water from it, grandpa luke had a really fancy 1959 arkansas traveler ski boat w/ a 45 evinrude on it. I thought that old boat was was the real deal!!!!!! I'd sneak out of camp and beat dad and grandpa to the boat every morning so I wouldnt get left behind. I spent many weekends there over the years with my family. Broke my heart when they closed it. I guess I really started to learn to fish with my dad down on the james at galena every spring. Started out with an old glass rod with a zebco 202 on it armed with a gigantic bobber and a wht maribou jig with a red head. dad bought me a pair of green rubber boots so i could wade out far enough on the shoal at Taylor hole to cast out into the current to get to those big ole sows. I dug river worms down on Spring River at Verona where i grew up and traded them to old Mr. Harris at the hardware store at Mount Vernon to buy my first spinning reel. It was a Garcia Abumatic 505 with the push button release on the spool instead of a bail. Caught alot of white bass with that old reel over the years. My dad and grandpa were my best fishing buddies and i think they are there everytime i'm on the water. Ive got close to 30 rods and reels with each having its one purpose (atleast in my own mind) five large tackle bags. binders,and folders out the keister and it all originated with an old zebco 202, a red and white bobber, an old pair of green rubber boots and two men that taught me that if you take a child to the water and woods you give him memories he will remember for a lifetime. tight lines!!!

i have an okuma avenger 15av i've tried to wear out and can't. ive got it on a 7'2'' outlaw crappie pole and its my goto rod when i'm crappie or white bass fishing. I also have several bps, pflueger and a couple quantum reels and my pro qualifier IM8 combo is probably my favorite its 4 years old and is holding up nicely