Phil Lilley

I guess the creator creates the topics. Then members can post on topics. You do have several choices of privacy when creating a club too... up to being hidden from the forum as a whole. You guys can form your club and share spots!

Example

I bought this app a while back and never done anything with it. It's called "clubs" and honestly I don't know much about it. But anyone can form or create a club by going to the club link in the header bar and create. I guess it's like a group on Facebook. I created a club just to see if I could - Official Ozark Anglers Fantasy Fishing League 2018 Play around with it if you want. Could be a cool thing if used properly.

Generation on Lake Taneycomo has followed the variance of temperature. When it's cold, dam operators have been running water pretty hard, but as soon as it gets warmer, they throttle it down. It's running harder early in the mornings and back on after dark, but instead of no flow during the day, it's been running at a strange 10 megawatts, 703 feet or less than 1,000 c.f.s. It's strange because this level is rare -- and they ran it all last weekend! Today, though, the water is all the way off. Water temp - 45.3 degrees. Last Friday, the hatchery stocked rainbows, lots of rainbows. And they stocked them off the access ramp down below the Landing close to where they keep their stocking boat. Some of our tournament guys saw them dump the trout in . . . and word go out. I guess it was pretty crowded Saturday morning during the Masters Tournament. And quite a few of the rainbows caught were pretty decent, not the little ones we've been seeing most of the winter. Those newly stocked rainbows like to chase. So throwing something shiny you can retrieve was the key. Spoons, rooster tails, jigs, jigs and float all worked well. Anglers caught trout from that area up through the Landing. Since then, it's been reported a lot of those fish have moved up and are being caught around Monkey Island. One of our guides fished up in Turkey and Roark creeks last week and said the creeks were full of trout. He caught his fish on the Berkley pink worm on a small jig head, under a float. Anglers this week are fishing with Powerbait and doing pretty well. They said they're catching a lot of little ones. I've fly fished and thrown a jig-and-float on outings this week. I've seen the same thing . . . lots of 10- to 12-inchers from Lookout Island all the way down and below Short Creek. I tried a Zebra Midge - #16 olive green and a red, under a float from 12 to 36 inches and the trout hammered it, especially if there was a little chop on the water's surface. They also creamed a #14 grey scud fished deep enough to be on the bottom. Some would hit it as soon as it hit the water. And I stripped a black hybernator (streamer) just above the River Pointe Estates boat ramp -- they hit it so hard I thought they were going to snap it off. I also fished a brown 1/50th-ounce jig with an orange head under a float. As long as there was a good chop on the water, they took the float under. View full article

No new rules. Just follow the old ones. The battles between people here drive others away... and leave the battlers to battle. The topics that soar from the intended subject to accusations and judgements has to stop. Back to sharing things about fishing. I get an email this morning from a friend/member here saying he's sorry the forum is shut down. It has meant a lot to him over the years. He's going in today to have a cancer removed from his brain. THAT puts this into perspective. If you have colorful language in your signature or interests, please remove it.

Why did this even become divisive? There is more and more a spirit of divisiveness among the members here and I for one am getting tired of it. If you can't say something constructive and respectful, then don't say anything at all. Take the drama to Facebook where it belongs. I don't want anyone to agree or disagree here... just do it. Topic locked.

I've finished the boating part. Still has to be edited by my editor though.

Edited. Thanks

http://www.ozarkanglers.com/lake-taneycomo/generation-on-lake-taneycomo/ Here's a page I created, talking about generation and wading. Give me some feedback please.

They've been running water for the past 3 days now - at this strange flow. 10 mw, < 1,000 cfs at 703 feet I need to go up and look at it below the dam. I think this is actually less than the recommended "minimum flow" the Corps was looking at years ago. I say strange because I don't think I've ever seen it at this flow for any duration of time. I think I like it thought!!

I've been updating some of the pages on OA. This is close to being right but I'm sure it needs tweaking. 702.0 feet -- 000 m.w. -- 0,000 c.f.s.703.0 feet -- 010 m.w. -- < 1,000 c.f.s.704.0 feet -- 035 m.w. -- 2,500 c.f.s.705.0 feet -- 050 m.w. -- 4,000 c.f.s. -- 1 turbine (unit)705.5 feet -- 075 m.w. -- 5,000 c.f.s.706.0 feet -- 085 m.w. -- 6,250 c.f.s.707.0 feet -- 100 m.w. -- 7,500 c.f.s. -- 2 turbines (unit)708.0 feet -- 125 m.w. -- 8,000 c.f.s.708.5 feet -- 150 m.w. -- 10,000 c.f.s. - 3 turbines (unit)709.0 feet -- 175 m.w. -- 11,500 c.f.s.710.0 feet -- 200 m.w. -- 13,500 c.f.s.711.0 feet -- 220 m.w. -- 16,000 c.f.s. - 4 turbines (unit) Thoughts?

I'm going to steal some pics from Jeremy Hunt's FB page. Pretty impressive trout. From last week.

Duane is there today - out of K Dock. Fighting the wind. We'll see how they do.

Welcome to OAF. You will find very helpful fishing information for your area because there are some guys and gals here on the forum who live in your area and fish... a lot! And they share good information too. But I would say be patient... Read what's posted in the next few weeks and months. You'll get a very good idea where to fish and how to fish. Of course the patterns will change many times between now and June. You might go back and look at the past years in June and July. You'll get a good idea what to expect. There is a wealth of info here... hope you enjoy your retirement. And thank you for your service.

Here's the report: MDC stocked on Friday afternoon. They dumped in a bunch of nice fish down at the boat ramp where they keep their stocking boat. It's by the Branson treatment plant. Some of the guys saw them stock... word got around. There was a crowd Saturday morning. Most of the anglers said they caught a lot of fish Saturday. Jigs, jerk baits, spoons. At weigh in, I saw a lot of bigger stockers. The team who won had a keeper brown that weighed 5.8 pounds but they also had some decent rainbows to go with them. He caught the brown on a stick bait early in the morning. He caught it below the resort.... somewhere. The other 3 winning teams all had above average stockers mainly. Rainbows being stocked right now are in spawning mode and the males are heavy. Babler had a trip. They went up in Roark Creek to the ice and he said his 2 clients caught 90 trout on the pink Berkley's worm. The trout he cleaned averaged about 11.5 inches - nothing special.

5.58 lb brown. Pretty male. Hopefully we'll get pics up later tonight or tomorrow. I will say - a lot of fish today were caught from the Landing down lake... I was told of anglers "getting tired" of catching fish today.

48 teams started at 8 am this morning. No generation this morning marking the first morning they haven't ran water in... weeks, months? Should be interesting. I heard there are a ton of boats in the Landing area.

We have 43 teams signed up for tomorrow's fishing contest here on Lake Taneycomo. I guess the nice weather is bringing them out to fish water that's not frozen! Guys said this afternoon's fishing was pretty good after a very slow morning. We'll see what tomorrow brings. This is an artificial, catch-n-release tournament. You can register up until the start tomorrow morning at 8 am. Weigh in is at 4 pm.

I'll ride down with either Seth or DJ when they're here. Just let me know.