Johnsfolly

I know there are enough trolls out there, I didn't want to come off as one.

Phil - I meant no offense. You're videos got me hooked onto this site. I'm constantly talking or dreaming about the fishing at Taney an now other great fishing spots inthe Ozarks. I've become a much better jig fisherman watching your videos. I took my family out on one of your boats last October. There was no flow and we didn't catch many trout, but they still talk about going back.

what a great bunch of fish photos! congrats on the PB rainbow.

May be that the days of 10 to 12 people only on a Satruday afternoon are gone. Phil's doing too good a job promoting the trout fishing.

Great report. Thanks for helping to get kids involved in fishing. Hopefully a couple of fishing addicts like us come out of that bunch.

I'm up to 12 since the 1st of March. I have confrimed that I caught two new species, hornyhead chub and the freshwater drum. I have to confirm this species of minnow to see if that is a new species as well.

My dog's not a terrier. So we may already have issues with this arrangement.

Do you have any room to rent out? I just need room for myself, wife, three kids (one in college so only around part time), a dog, and 15 chickens.

I recognize that rod and hat combo and the cheap beer photos. 2sheds - are you going to fish the MO wild trout streams again this year?

I'm pretty specialized in my work with not too many opportunities in my field outside of a few locations accross the country. When I lived in PA, I knew a couple that lived in PA and communted to Manhattan to work. 6.5 hours round trip, but they both said that it was great to wake up in the Pocono mountains away from the city on the weekends. Also they had great paying jobs that allowed them to buy a lot of cheaper real estate in PA. So what I need to find is a house about 1-2 hours from the White river and 2-3 hours from Columbia. Okay first get the kids out of the house (hopefully 10 years from now for my youngest), then find a new home. Okay get the kids out of the house and no longer on the payroll and convince my wife. She's becoming a bit of a prepper. So It may not be too hard to get her move off of grid.

Sounds like a great time. Ham - congrats on the large rainbow. I hear so much about the White, I really have to get down that way to fish. Sounds like I went down there it could be creating a potential addiction.

I can't wait to get back down to Taneycomo. Your one cast videos certainly feeds the fire.

Awesome bass! Congrats!

I could tell if the Osage in general or the Osage/Tavern creek confluence would be considered an Ozark water on this forum. Anyway I got down to fish that area yesterday hoping for a redhorse sucker or two and maybe a spotted bass to add to my 2015 species caught listing. My buddy and I started fishing the Tavern just above the bridge above the confluence. We were bottom fishing using nightcrawlers. We both caught freshwater drum. I had never caught a freshwater drum. So the day was already a sucess for me. After the bite died under the bridge, we drifted down to the mouth of the creek. Noone was having much luck on redhorse from the bank or by boat. A couple of spotted bass were caught and I caught a few the worms off of the bottom. The largest that I boated was just under 11". Not a monster, but I nice healthy fish. Since I hadn't caught a spotted bass yet this year, they were added to my species tally. We moved into the Osage downstream of the confluence and really never got a good bite for several hours. We pulle anchor and headed upstream above the Tavern. I threw my bait into a current seam and hooked into a good fish. My buddy got a phone call as I was bringing the fish to the boat for him to net. This redhorse measured 22.25" and weighted about 4-4.5 lbs. Even though it was a pretty slow day fro numbers of fish. I was glad to be out on the water and tallied three more fish to my list.

It took me two trips to Crane to catch my first rainbow. Glad you were able to cath fish. That is a gem of a stream.

I use the USGS site all of the time. Living in Columbia and being a wade fisherman makes it imperative to check water levels and flow before committing to a 3 to 5 hour round trip to fish a blown out stream. I found that out when I went down to the Current and it was flowing high and looked like chocolate milk. That was the only trip that I had been skunked on trout in that river.

What an awesome fish! I'm still working on catching one over 6 lbs let alone a 30+ lb brown trout.

Brandon, I have only fished this creek once. I caught a 14" rainbow on a white 1/32 oz marabou jig. So I can't say what will work consistently in that creek.

Thanks for the information. I'll let you know how I do the next time we are down that way.

I really like these pictures. I may have to convince my wife that a trip to Springfield/Branson is needed around that time.

Nice trout!

There is nothing like seeing a kid's face light up when they catch a fish. Great catch Ivey. Sound like a great day as well.

Oneshot - what have you been using for goggle eyes in that area? Worms? Plastics? When I'm in the park often my daughter wants to fish for something else and would like to learn more about the Niangua fishing. Thanks John

Awesome Crane creek McCloud rainbow!

I am targetting a total of 8 new species this year and a total over 30 species. So far I have only been out once and have just two species, rainbow trout and banded sculpin. My daughter and I were at Bennett's Spring trout park and she preferes to catch the sculpin. so we had the biggest and smallest contest. I had the smallest at 2.6" She had the largest.