Phil Lilley

25 inch brown caught last night. Released

No. Aside of the new boulders at Fall Creek, not much has changed.

It's not.

I'm checking. It does look like him but this guy doesn't look old enough.

Bobby Allison caught and released this 28 inch 14 pound rainbow this evening fishing with guide Bill Beck.

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Don't really have one. Of course released - he's fishing with the best fly guide on the lake and he's all c/r. It was on his FB page. No details. Only it was close to outlet #3. Saw a couple kicking there this evening... not doing real well. The gal was hand fishing which if caught will get her a ticket. I caught a bunch of rainbows on a ginger 3/32nd oz jig up there this evening but nothing big and no browns.

Chuck Gries, Angler's Outfitters. Near outlet #3 this morning. 27 inch brown.

There you go.... http://www.bransontrilakesnews.com/news_free/article_9fc70712-6939-11e5-a90b-ef44e42a467c.html

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I should expound... Melt butter in plate. Sprinkle lemon pepper and season salt (or garlic salt) on melted butter. Place fillets on plate, dipping and turning them so that there's butter/seasonings on both sides. Fill plate with fish. Microwaves for 3.5 minutes. I've done this with crappie - meat fell apart and dried out quickly. White bass, not as bad. Trout - perfect.

Microwaved

Dark images but you should be able to make out where I am on the lake... below Fall Creek on the inside bank. You can see the marina past the bow of my jon boat. Drifted and fished this inside bank for about 45 minutes throwing a #14 black zebra midge under an indicator 18 inches deep and caught 5 rainbows, 4 of which will be dinner tonight. This is a great bank to fish... it's not deep water so you have to fish it shallow. I started at the huge tree in the water and it's good to just pass the Riverpointe boat ramp.

I may be down that Thursday... might even fish that day - and Friday. So come on.

Note I didn't say "guides" because you don't need to be a pro guide to help these guys. November 17-18, Tuesday and Wednesday. You get free lodging and stall if you come help - and some good food and fellowship. And you can help a wounded vet relax and enjoy some fishing. We've received quite a few flies for the vets too - thanks! And some nice merchandise and gift cards.

Had to look up hyperbole Isn't most things about fishing hyperbole?

Yes it would. Good idea

By John Neporadny Jr. The Lake of the Ozarks is usually low with little flow during October but power generation could still play a role in the fall bass action. “Ameren brings the lake down about a foot right after Labor Day in anticipation of fall rain and that has an impact on the fish,” says Jeff Green, Ameren Missouri shoreline management supervisor who frequently competes in tournaments on his home waters of Lake of the Ozarks. Green suggests anglers do some homework the week before fishing by checking the lake’s flow discharge rates on the Ameren web site (www.ameren.com). “Generation would be a positive thing for the fishing,” says Green. “The likelihood of generation is low because that is usually our low-water time and there is usually not a lot of rain.” A rainy late summer/early fall could cause Ameren to generate in October and create current throughout the lake. “Current is just like a big conveyor belt of food so a big fat bass that is still in hot water it going to go to (a main lake) point to feed if there is heavy generation,” says Green, who suggests anglers should check about five main lake points before trying another pattern. If generation has been light the week before fishing, Green recommends keying on specific cover such as a larger boulder or brush pile on the point rather than the drop-offs where bass congregate during heavy generation. He notes bass will scatter if generation has been shut off, but the fish will still be holding to some type of cover on the points. Checking out the weather patterns for the lake the week before a trip to the lake will also help anglers prepare for their time on the water. “If we have had five cloudy days before a trip the fish are probably not going to be glued to brush piles,” says Green. “They are not going to be seeking out cover, there are going to be cruising.” Cruising the lake should be a priority for anglers, according to Green. “Get a feel for what the water looks like in each of the arms so spend a little boat time and go from the (main lake) point all the way to the back to get a feel for where the shad are because the bass are going to be relating to the shad,” says Green. The Osage Beach angler suggests throwing a deep-diving crankbait to cover a lot of water and key on bass suspended above brush piles. “The first week of October the fish are in transition,” Green says. “They have been down in their summer haunts of brush piles or points but the water is coming down a little bit and it is at its clearest point. The young- of-the-year shad are usually coming up. So the bass in those deeper brush piles start to suspend which makes them harder to catch.” Green has planted numerous brush piles in the lake throughout the years and cashes plenty of tournament checks when bass are holding in his fish attractors. The local expert recalls cashing some checks in the annual Big Bass Bash when he and his partner caught some bass in the 5-pound range from his brush piles. “One of my biggest fish in the Big Bass Bash though was on a spinnerbait 3 feet deep in the upper Glaize which had turned dingy due to wind/wave action,” he says. Green’s favorite lures for working in the brush piles include a green pumpkin 3/4- or 1-ounce jig with a 5-inch Chompers’ twin-tail grub (in green pumpkin or pumpkin candy hues) or a Texas-rigged plum 10-inch Berkley Power Worm with a 1/2-ounce sinker on 20-pound fluorocarbon line. He suggests Texas-rigged plastic craws or hawg-style baits and Senkos rigged on shaky jigheads will also produce in the brush. Matching the young-of-the-year shad with a smaller paddletail worm also triggers strikes from quality bass suspended over the brush. “All the strategies that time of year have challenges,” says Green. “You are not going to go out and know exactly what the fish are doing because they are doing a lot of things. The morning bite is going to be very important and you need to have a buzz bait tied on one of your rods.” The local angler suggests using a 1/2-ounce buzzer in chartreuse in murky water and white in clearer water. A Zara Spook will also draw bigger fish to the top in the clear water. Green advises throwing topwaters on the main lake points in the morning. “If you don’t get bit on the points pretty quick, you need to start working your way back where you might find some of those larger bass chasing shad on the flats,” says Green. He recommends targeting docks on the flats since bigger bass use the docks as ambush points. The lower lake usually yields bigger bass, but Green notes these fish are tougher to catch since many of the fish are suspending over deeper water. “The range of top to bottom is a much bigger area for the fish to suspend in,” warns Green. “One of the better strategies is to narrow that range and start fishing shallow water and you need to do that by fishing up the tributaries.” He recommends targeting shallower bass by trying the logjams and shallow boat docks on the Grand Glaize, Niangua and Gravois arms and the Osage arm from the 50-mile marker to Warsaw. Docks will be key targets during the fall so Green hopes dock owners and anglers will be considerate of each other. “We have periodic conflicts there,” he admits. “It doesn’t happen very often but it does happen. It is important to recognize that the lake is here for many people to enjoy. We just need to be courteous and safe.”

We too -- Duane and I that is. May be bring some more guys from this area. Looking forward to it.

You can put in up there no matter what the water level is but where you go from there is dictated by water levels. You can go down for sure--up lake is another matter. Not sure how to advise... just be careful if it's questionable.

Generation patterns have been consistently moving more and more to the slow side. The U.S. Corps of Army Engineers ran 45 megawatts, or a little less than one unit, for most of the month of September, all day and night, except for a short blast of water starting about 3 p.m. each day for up to a couple of hours. But today may mark another move towards even less generation, running 16 mw of water this morning which is very strange. It's strange because operators don't run that little of water very often. The Corps has said in the past that small amounts of generation is very hard on the turbine props' blades, so not sure why the geneation has been dropped to 16 megawatts. Beaver Lake is at 1125.25 feet, five feet above power pool. It's dropping very slowly, and it appears operators are letting it run right through Table Rock and through Taneycomo. That looks like that's the reason we're seeing consistently low flows here. I would think that we should start seeing some down time in generation here pretty soon. We will see. Boating up lake with this flow is tricky past Fall Creek. Even getting above the gravel bar at the mouth of Fall Creek is a little tough because the high water from this past spring has filled in the channel on the left side, and the bar itself is much shallower. Then there are the big rocks out of the water on the creek side of the lake. Go slow to be watchful before you blow up past the area. The lake just above Fall Creek has filled in, too. You have to steer back to the west side almost immediately above the gravel bar and stay on the west side until you get to the Narrows. From there up everything is the same. Bill Babler, fishing guide here on Lake Taneycomo, has reported catching good rainbows above Fall Creek using a #18 beaded scud and a micro egg under a float five- to six-feet deep. He's using a small copper tungsten bead on the scud to get it down. He said a split shot was too much weight and dragging the bottom was not an option. The thick moss on the bottom was covering his flies. He's using 6x fluorocarbon tippet. Steve Dickey, another one of our guides, is fishing a beaded pink or red San Juan worm and a chartreuse 1/100th-ounce jig under a float below Fall Creek and doing well early in the mornings, before 9 a.m. Below the dam, anglers are seeing good numbers of big browns that have moved up for their spawning run. The run continues through the first of November. Surprisingly, big browns will take a small scud about as well as our rainbows do. The outlets are always a good place to find big trout, but that's not a secret, so you'll find the outlets usually crowded. But you'll also find good fish other places between and below the outlets -- and I think it's a bit more challenging to catch a fish away from the feeding trough and the crowds. These browns, as well as rainbows, will also take San Juan Worms, Cracklebacks and hoppers. At night they'll take streamers like the Hybernator, MoHair Leeches, Pine Squirrels, wooly buggers and mice on the surface. Steve told me he's finding good trout still interested in a hopper along the banks. He said the bigger pink hoppers thrown to the bank and hopped a few times are triggering big strikes. He said a big brown came up on one last week so hard that it completely missed the fly. Below Fall Creek, night crawlers are still the best live bait by far. Berkley's yellow paste Powerbait has been good off the docks here, along with night crawlers. If you're throwing a straight jig, no float, I'd suggest using two-pound line and a 3/32nd-ounce sculpin jig. Ginger and sculpin/ginger have been good colors, too. Trout Magnets are working early and late in the day under a float from six- to eight-feet deep. Good colors have been pink, pink/white and chartreuse with good numbers caught from Monkey Island to down past the Branson Landing.