Travis Swift

He went by "Trav" and he talked a lot and wrote a lot but never saw a lot of evidence. If half of what he would write was true it must of been pretty awesome back in the day down there. Phil went down and met him a time or two if I recall. For sure was interesting to read some of his stuff back in the day!

I agree they probably don't live in 40 feet of water but what I sort of meant is there is ALOT of water down there. And there is very very very low pressure on brown trout that way. Almost no one specifically targeting them and certainly not at night when they are feeding more often. And there is a ton more bait down there, chubs, shad, sculpin, small rainbows, crappie, bluegill etc. And more cover as you know in the form of grass and trees. Is it loaded with giant brown trout? Doubtful but it has the ingredients to grow or harbor a giant in my opinion.

So I'll ask a stupid uneducated question. On the triploids, they obviously can't spawn but do they still make a "false" run in the fall? Or are they built to eat and get big and the only thing they care about is food? Reason is, I wondered if some of the giants stayed down lake last fall and didn't move up and therefore they may not have caught the fungus? But when you say none of the big ones have been triploids that theory kinda goes out the door. I still maintain there are monsters living from Bull Creek down but sure couldn't prove it and not many if any try for them down there. Some of those bluffs past rockaway are straight down and have close to 40 feet of water in the deep holes. Who knows what might be living down that way.

Good report Milo. Sucks to lose ol' big but I'm sure glad there are a few of the monsters left, I was afraid we had lost them all.

We got into a big white bass run a Beaver for several years in a row. The weird part is you couldn't catch a single dang one during the day but when we went back in this cove/creek at night we caught them all night long. Go back during the day and they were gone. Was fun as there would be a Striper mixed in occasion as well. We caught all of them on road runners but they flat wouldn't touch any plastic tailed road runner. Had to be marabou and had to be after dark. So weird but was a hoot.

That's really what I'm afraid of. It's put a damper on it for me as well unfortunately. I'm taking my spring trip to Texas bass fishing this year instead of taney for browns for that reason. It was going really well too with a bunch of good ones in there. Really sucks.

That is so good for the health of the fishery when that happens. Hopefully whatever big browns might be left in the lake really hammer those shad to help their growth!

Thank you for creating the app, I just downloaded it and it looks great!

I maybe late to the party on this one......My phone says the generation app got disabled? Is there a new one in it's place?

That will REALLY suck if true, we were getting alot of nice brownies back in the joint.

I know a guy that caught a 40 pound spoonbill on lower Taney a few years back and I saw one dead that big floating down at rockaway once.

Fished 2.5 hours yesterday. Several browns and quality rainbows on jerkbaits. Then busted a jig out and caught 20 in real short order. Jigs and 2 pound test will get you bit on this lake 365 days a year

Headed down tomorrow, can’t freaking wait!

Pretty cool deal, Blake Wilson's client caught that big rainbow again yesterday not far from where I caught it as well. That made me really happy to see because I fought it a long time and had worn it down pretty good so we took plenty of time making sure it was good and healthy and cared for when we released it then boom someone else got the joy of catching it less than a week later. Made me so darn happy to see!

I loved my American Angler for years and still do but I have the cordless Bubba now and it's been phenomenal.

Just spent last week at Taney. I spent most of the week trying to target bigger fish on my new line of jerkbaits I’ve been painting for a couple of months. Ended up with a 20.5 inch brown a 21 inch brown and a beautiful tank of a Bow that was 25 inches that I caught on a homemade jig I pour and tie. Was so much fun on 2 pound test. Got to hang out with some awesome guys from Hooked on Vets and they absolutely whacked them as well. Was really an awesome week and can’t wait to get back down as always!

The fish in Taney are in the best shape they have been in for decades. The quality is unreal. I recently caught a big brown on a jerkbait, took great care of it and released it and it was caught again 2 weeks later. In fact if you watch the taneycomo facebook pages you will see the same fish being caught alot and plenty of those are on treble hooked baits. Enforce current rules and leave the rest of us alone.

Nice job Milo!

$65 tyd?

Dropped the price to $70 for as for shipped

There is no such thing:)

4 plus ones, a couple of been lightly used but all in good shape. All have upgraded Aaron Martens size 5 Nano Hooks. $70 TYD

I was down lake a couple of weeks ago past Rockaway and it was stagnant nasty water with floating dead grass all over. This should help flush it out and breath new life into it down that way too.

This was really well done. Only thing I would have added is rebar (unless I missed it) and the narrows weren’t represented correctly because there wasn’t 19 boats stacked in there side ways with no generation 🤣. All jokes aside that was an awesome video!

What a touching tribute to an absolute Taneycomo legend. Sounds like you were truly blessed to know him.