dmbrower1

This weekend was the first time I have brought my boat to Taneycomo and also my first time staying at Taneycomo. Myself and 3 others stayed at a cabin at Lilleys landing. The cabin was nice, clean and met all my expectations. We headed out onto the water early Saturday morning and fished the area from Cooper Creek to the Branson Landing By bass pro. We caught about 20 total rainbows before 11am on 1/16oz maribou jigs. We started out everyone using different colors (white, ginger, olive, sculpin, orange) and within the first hour or so everyone had switched to white and was having great luck pulling them from down deep. Went in for lunch and filleted a few trout for dinner later. We hit the water again around 2pm. Fishing started a little slower this time but picked up a little later on. Caught about 10 more trout between 4 people. Caught a couple on a gold kastmaster, a couple on chartreuse maribou, but most were caught on white maribou again in the same area as before. On Sunday we only fished untill 11am before heading back home. Sunday it seemed like we just couldn't get in a good rythm. We tried maribou jigs, kastmasters, multiple spinners, multiple spoons, some crankbaits, and pretty much threw the whole tackle box at em. We caught a couple here and there on various lures. We had the most success with a rainbow trout colored spoon. Overall it was a great stay at Lilleys and a great fishing trip. Hopefully we get to make a few more trips down soon.

Thanks for the tip

Thanks Dprice

Yea I figured it was kind of that time of the year and the type of weather where Im gonna just have to try out some different things and see what works. Thanks for the advice though. Good luck out there on Saturday.

Hello everyone, I will be making a trip up to Stockton this weekend with my wife and havent really ever done much fishing up there. I have been looking at the forums and a some maps and was thinking of putting boat (19ft deep V) in at mutton creek. I primarily fish for bass or crappie but am also interested in fishing for whites (Pretty much whatever is biting). If anyone has any advice on locations, fishing lures, or techniques it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Guess that's why they call it fishin and not catchin but Im definitely ready to get back out there soon and give it another try soon.

First off let me say that this was my first time fishing for trout in particular. I usually fish for bass/crappie in Missouri and pike/walleye/bass/crappie in Minnesota. I wanted to try something new though. I went out to capps creek around 5:30pm until dark. I started out up at the jolley mill area. I could see a couple decent bass swimming around there but not much else. I was using a mepps algia spin fly kind of white or grey in color size 0. Still I tried up there for about hour. Then I decided I would go to the other access downstream by the bridge. I walked upstream there hitting any holes that looked decent. Ended up catchin a couple little largemouth but thats it. All in all I got skunked but I will definitely be back out there when I get another chance.