Phil Lilley

I had 44 same morning 5:30 am

Nice! that's a good one.

Thanks guys. It's been a ride so far. Lots of hidden "gems" It's going to take a while to get this place in shape. And no the ramp will go. The concrete is horrible - a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I hope so. There's plenty of demand for more fishing resorts on this lake. I think it's sad too that so many have gone away.

Lazy is to become a different kind of place. They're gutting all the rooms and making them fancy... I can't remember what you call it. It might be run as a VIRBO. It doesn't sound like it's going to be a fishing resort.

We bought our neighbor - Ozark Trout Resort. 12 units and a dock. A slanted swimming pool :). We're reminded of our first days at Rosadaro Resort in May, 1983. Rooms aren't too bad, just needs a lot of updating,,, and cleaning! I'm headed out to weed eat right now. The biggest need for us is parking... we pick up quite a bit of that. Plus it's going to be easiest building the new shop too. Hopefully we'll start on it this fall.

Marsha listened... she said AI doesn't know what blues are... sounds like blues but the lyrics are not blues. I don't know blues either so I couldn't argue.

How did you do that?

Scary good.....

Sent message to Mike Rifle

Good question - I've heard it both ways. Yes and No.

I know you have 2 accounts here - my guess you post on 2 different devices using the 2 accounts. I would suggest, if this is the case, log in to just one account on both devices - the one you are posting on now. If you need help, I'd be glad to do that on the back end. One thing... when I was looking for something on the forum the other day using a guys phone, there was an ad the popped up first thing and it confused me... it was asking me to register. First I thought it was the forum.... what the heck! Then I realized it was an ad. Frustrating. I don't like that. I did come home and switched off some of the ad placements on the forum.

I soak the fillet in salt water for 12 hours (over night). Then score the fillet in about an inch segments leaving the skin attached. Keep the heat about 120, applying the syrup every 20 minutes in the beginning and less often about a few hours. 7 hours is about what I do but you can take it off earlier and it will be moist or leave it on longer and it would be more firm. You can't apply too much syrup.

The ride home is always the hardest.

I use real maple syrup on my salmon to make candy

It's off tomorrow all morning too. Bet this is the new pattern. Four units in the afternoon... drift egg fly and scud on the bottom when the water comes on.

Maybe we can have an OAF Alaskafest week next summer...

I had to post this... I always told ppl that we lined sockeye as they swam upstream with their mouths open until I videoed this. No mouths open. So how do we "line them"? I don't know. I'm SOOOOO glad you guys got the opportunity to go up. AK is a great place and I'm sure DD was the perfect host with lots of stories.

Utah rig, provo rig, slip bobber... lots of names.

This playlist is called "Slip Bobber". See if it helps.

Our stocking overall is down 60% this year because Bennett, Montauk and Meremac aren't able to provide trout as usual. Shepherd is picking up the slack, this year. I'd like to see how many out of state lisc/trout tags are bought that fish Taneycomo vs all other Missouri trout streams. Of course, that's not possible, but I'd think most are fishing Taneycomo only. But I may be bias.

We actually did and couple of days not long ago. But we'll do more. I'll tag them.

I'm not sure "committed" is the right view. It's a matter of budget. I know surrounding states are hiking their non resident fees and MO is probably just adjusting, but bottom line this WILL decrease the number of people who fish Taneycomo, it will not enhance the sport. I believe they're hiking the fees because of state park hatcheries and the trouble they're having. I know none of the monies are going directly to state park BUT MDC is having to flip the bill in the form of rainbow trout to make up for the lack of ability to produce trout at the state park hatcheries. I'd like to see WHY they need the additional monies for Taneycomo. The visitor center should have already been paid for and there's no new projects there that I know of.

$40!!! This is crazy! Talk about driving away out of staters from fishing our lake! https://mdc.mo.gov/permits/proposed-permit-price-adjustments-2026 There's a lot of people who only fish here once a year, in some cases once! They hire a guide and only fish once. $12 is feasible... $40 will be a big deterrent to many. Yeah, this is one I need to fight, not just for my guides and our business but for the people who really would enjoy fishing here that won't in the future.

Asking about ads again... for some reason I don't see them and I don't use ad blocker. So I don't think about it - until I was showing someone something on the forum on their phone and - oh the ads! It was hard getting anywhere with them popping up!! So I turned a bunch of them off hoping it won't bombard everyone. Sorry about that!!!