Phil Lilley

This event is a great way to introduce young boys to fishing. Alot of them had never fished and their parents didn't have a clue. A lot of members here on the forum are always talking about how it's a great thing to get the next generation interested in fishing and hunting. I hope next time there's an event like this one more anglers volunteer to help. Yeah- I am miffed that only one member helped out- and thanks Michael!

You'd think so but it's been this way for months... not much change in flow. They're supposed to limit flow because of low DO conditions (seasonal) but the DO seems to be good and water temperature is still low (48). So I can't explain except to say it is what it is - at least for the moment.

Bump. I think there will be a lot of tickets bought at the last minute... this is a great deal!

My 2 birthday rainbows. 28 and 27 inches respectively.

No nasty bass up here...

http://naknekrivercamp.com is where I'm at....

First time I've been on the internet... I'm in Alaska, yes. Be back Thursday. No one knows it's my bday here... nice! Did land a couple of nice rainbows today. Pushing 30 inches. Pics later. No time tonight. Heard it was 94 at home today... it was beautiful here today. Mostly sunny and 62. First sun we've seen this week. Lots of rain and chily 50sih. But good fishing... Thanks!

Although we've had a big change in our air temperature this week, generation patterns on Lake Taneycomo are close to the same, so far. Today's temperature shouldn't climb much over 70 degrees, and dam operators are scheduled to run 25 megawatts until about 2 p.m., increasing to up to 125 mw for a couple of hours. This has been the pattern the last couple of weeks -- either water off or running 25 mw until early afternoon, then up to 3 or 4 units for 2-3 hours, then backing off, shutting down by dark. Full generation is 220 mw. There seem to be plenty of rainbows in the upper lake right now with the water temperature holding at 48 -- both are good signs for catching trout. This time of year we usually see a rise in water temperature, into the mid 50's, while the dissolved oxygen (DO) drops. This is a seasonal occurrence. Low water temperatures helps because cooler water holds oxygen better than warmer water but we will see our DO drop as we get into October and November. When the water is running later in the afternoon, I've noticed anglers drifting out in front of the resort catching rainbows using Gulp Eggs, using a white egg and another color such as pink, orange or chartreuse. I ventured out this morning while they were running 25 mw of water (about a half unit) and found rainbows in some areas but not all over. We've been doing well fishing from Fall to Short Creek but not for me today. I tried throwing jigs, and drifting night crawlers and a trout magnet under a float, but only garnered a couple of bites. I did catch one rainbow and one small brown on a sculpin/orange, 3/32nd-ounce jig. On the way back to the resort I tried a couple of areas and found a school of rainbows in a spot where we usually find them -- above the resort where the bluff (opposite the resort) ends and at the first dock. I caught several nice rainbows on a pink/white Trout Magnet under a float seven-foot deep but missed a dozen strikes. When I drifted about 200 yards past the dock, the bites stopped. Guide Bill Babler reported catching some nice rainbows below Fall Creek yesterday on air-injected night crawlers (I must not have been holding my mouth right today!). Night crawlers usually catch bigger fish here. They also will catch more brown trout, so be careful to identify your catch and release browns under 20 inches. Guide Steve Dickey is still catching mostly rainbows in the trophy area using a Miracle fly (egg fly on a jig head) under a float with a Zebra Midge or scud dropper. When the water is running harder in the afternoon, he's drifting a #12 gray scud, an egg fly or a San Juan worm using a drift rig and doing very well. He's drifting from Lookout down to Fall Creek.

I guess it was 2010...

Bill and I floated the Kelly River back in 2009. You can look up the topic here. Kyle wrote me and asked me about how we did it. Then he and 2 friends made the trip - - http://www.sleepwhenyouredead.com/sea-run-char-alaskas-far-north/

We have the same issues on Taneycomo... most boat operators are nice. Only takes one or two per outing...

Go down and talk to them. See what their story is.

I love meeting people like that... I'd walk up to him, hold out my hand and introduce myself as if he never made the rude remark. Ask him how his day was going... other friendly questions. Overpower rudeness with friendliness - they'll never know what hit them. If they blow you off, smile, turn, shake the dust from your heels and go on knowing you did a good deed. Be thankful.

I think these kinds of posts should stay on facebook. No good will become of talking about this.

I have one volunteer. Come on guys... give a Saturday morning to some boys who are wanting to learn how to fish. Put your action what your fingers are.

I am conflicted. I usually start out my fishing report talking about generation patterns and how they've been affecting our trout fishing here on Lake Taneycomo but tomorrow we're in for a big weather change. Cooler temperatures are in the foreseeable future and that's going to change how the Corp is running water on our lake. So, only thing I can do today is guess! See they've been leaving the water off all night, all morning for weeks, I think it's a safe bet to say that pattern will continue. There may be days when the Corp will run 25 megawatts or a half unit all day but there's usually no rhyme or reason when and why they do that. If they run water in the afternoons, it won't be 3 or 4 units like they've been running. An old fall patterns is no water all day, a little "fish water" in the evening -- may be a half units for an hour. We will see! Trout fishing has been pretty normal for late summer. Our water is clear and the trout are picky! There does seem to be more rainbows in our area of the lake and up towards Fall Creek than there's been in a month. Anglers are catching trout off our dock early in the morning on Gulp eggs and worms. But light line is a must -- 2-pound best, 4-pound is ok. One party of four rented a pontoon from us yesterday. I told them to try both down at the bridges and up close to Short Creek. They said they had their limits pretty quick and caught and released the rest of the morning. They did the best at Short Creek but caught fish at Monkey Island too. Another pontoon boat came in with another 4 trout anglers just after this groups and said they caught -- zero. We hear and see that a lot. Someone coming in with glowing reports and others with nothing. Honestly, I can't figure that out. The party that was catching -- they were using our drift rigs (4-pound line) and Gulp Eggs, mainly white, pink and orange. I got out a couple of times this week, once to video and another time to just see what was going on. Both times were in mid morning trips, when the sun was up and bright and the fog had lifted. Water was off and very little wind to start. I was determined to catch something on a dry fly up in the trophy area. I love to fish a dry and love to see the take even more. There was a little bit of surface activity under the trees, close to the bluff bank so I was hopeful. Tied on a #10 Stimulator, 3x tippet and a #18 Green Ugly Zebra Midge dropper 16 inches below the dry, 7x tippet. I had 2 "looks" on the dry and 2 takes which I missed. Caught 2 rainbows on the Zebra. I also tried throwing a 3/32nd ounce jig, straight line no float. Only tried one color -- black/olive. I missed several fish but did land one nice rainbow (video). These fish don't see many small jigs using this presentation so I think you can catch quite a few trout up in the trophy area and even below Fall Creek using small jigs. Use 2-pound line when throwing these small jigs. The wind kept picking up and dying off. It was frustrating because I wanted to switch to a small jig or fly I could fish under a float but the chop on the water kept going away so I decided to head down lake and see if I could find more consistent wind. I did. The stretch from Fall Creek around the corner to Short Creek has had good wind and chop on the surface the last couple of days from about 10 am through the rest of the day. As I came down yesterday, I passed a boat with 2 couples who were fishing. They asked me if I had caught anything up lake and I said it was slow - no wind. They said it had been great fishing for them. I told them it was on account of the wind and chop they were in. I fished a pink/white Trout Magnet under a float 7-8 feet deep using 6x tippet (2-pound) down closer to Short Creek, staying in the middle of the lake and caught several real nice rainbows. Missed a bunch though on short strikes. Again, good chop on the surface. With cooler temperatures and less humidity, we should see less fog at night and in the morning on the lake. If you're up for an adventure, go night fishing. Water should be off at night and trout do bite after dark. Typically, brown trout feed at night. If you were to target browns at night, I'd throw a medium size stick bait and I'd try to throw it in fairly shallow water to start. Close to the bank or on flats are good places. Try cranking the bait in slowly, not letting it go very deep in the water. If you're fly fishing, cast streamers such as Pine Squirrel, sculpins, Matukas, Wooly Buggers, PMS and Mohair Leeches. If you're fishing below the dam (wading) try something that stays close or even on top of the water. Colors- try both light and dark colors and see what they want -- and change often! Here's a fishing report called in by one of our fishing guides, Steve Dickey. You need FLASH to play this.

Wonderful- thanks for sharing.

Wouldn't there be a lot of old Indian artifacts close to a spring? Someone could have been "rooting" for them.

Last active means he hasn't signed in. He still could be reading. It should go without saying that if you buy property along a floatable river like the Niangua, you should be aware of the laws pertaining to access and trespass. Buying land and then promptly placing a chip-on-shoulder is not the way to live life, especially if you're blessed enough to purchase such a beautiful piece of land. It just stressful. Since he hasn't re posted, it's easy to misread into what he has said, at least the motivation behind it. May be he's the type of landowner who would ride down early in the morning to a camper on a gravel bar and have a cup of coffee, chat for a while. I hope so.

Switch your video setting from private to public...

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by John Neporadny Jr. While the fall weather turns Missouri's trees into a sea of red, gold and orange, the cooler temperatures also energize bass. After spending the hot summer slumbering in deep-water haunts, Lake of the Ozarks bass follow baitfish to the shallows during autumn where the cooler water triggers a feeding frenzy. The recurring fall scenes of bass busting through schools of shad makes this season one of the most exciting and frustrating times to pursue bass. The thrill of watching these fish churn the surface climaxes when your topwater lure disappears in a frothy explosion. However that excitement can quickly turn into frustration when you make countless casts to these marauders and the fish continue to ignore your offerings. The vast waters of my home lake offers anglers a wide variety of areas and patterns to try throughout autumn. After the Labor Day holiday, boat traffic decreases and the bass fishing turns on in the backs of major feeder creeks and the upper ends of the main tributaries. The best areas to try in early fall include the upper sections of the Osage and Niangua Rivers and the backs of feeder creeks, such as the Gravois, Little Gravois, Grand Glaize, Linn, Indian and Soap. Lay-downs and wood stick-ups are key targets for bass in the shallows of the creek. When largemouth bass are chasing shad in these areas a variety of lures will catch fish, including topwater chuggers such as Rebel Pop-Rs, buzz baits and spinnerbaits. One of my favorite techniques for these active bass is to bump a shallow-running crankbait into the wood cover. If the weather turns sunny, I key on shallow boat docks where the bass suspend under the floating piers to ambush shad. Running a spinnerbait or twitching a soft jerkbait close to the sides of the dock usually coaxes a bass out of its hiding place. However the best way to trigger dock bass into biting is swimming a jig and plastic or pork trailer along the dock's foam. I prefer using a 1/4-ounce light-colored jig with a white pork chunk or blue plastic crawfish that I quickly retrieve in a hopping fashion within about 1 to 2 feet of the surface. The main lake also produces plenty of action for spotted bass in the early fall. Marauding gangs of spotted bass can be seen slashing through schools of baitfish along main lake points and islands. The best lures for catching these fish include topwater chuggers, 1/4-ounce Rat-L-Traps and 1/4-ounce spinnerbaits. My guide trip clients usually caught plenty of spotted bass when they worked small topwater chuggers next to main-lake boat Some quality largemouth can be caught in the mornings on chrome-and-black Storm Lures Wiggle Wart crankbaits along main lake points. Later in the day, the bigger fish move into brush piles 10 to 20 feet deep where you can catch them on Texas-rigged 10-inch plastic worms or jigs and pork chunks. From mid-October through November, the lake level usually starts dropping and bass concentrate on the chunk-rock primary and secondary points. Some of the most productive techniques for catching late fall bass on the points include waking a 1/2- to 3/4-ounce spinnerbait, slowly cranking a buzz bait or working a Heddon Zara Spook with a walk-the-dog retrieve. Swimming a jig along the main lake docks also takes both keeper-size largemouth and spotted bass. If the lake level remains high, then flipping a 3/8-ounce jig and pork chunk along seawalls on secondary points also produces keeper bass. For information on lodging and other facilities at the Lake of the Ozarks or to receive a free vacation guide, call the Lake of the Ozarks Convention & Visitors Bureau at 1-800-FUN-LAKE or visit the Lake of the Ozarks Convention and Visitors Bureau web site at funlake.com.

Volunteers Needed! Saturday, September 27th - 9 a.m. till noon Joplin, Missouri Cub Scouts, "Hooked on Fishing" About 300 Cub Scouts will be going for their Fishing Badges on Saturday, September 27 at Camp Mintahama; Girl Scout Camp, 6 miles South of Joplin. They will be required to go through 7 stations on instruction, including tying knots, rigging, tackle, rules of fishing and water safety, identification and handling fish and casting. They will also be fishing. The event will be held starting at 9 a.m. and will last 3 hours. Lunch will be provided for volunteers and their families. Other scout activities will be offered during the afternoon up until "free time" in which scouts will be able to fish again. For those who would like to stay and help with this session, dinner will be provided at 6 p.m.. Each volunteer must take an online course called Youth Protection, it can be found at: https://myscouting.scouting.org/ . It should take only 30-45 minutes to complete. OzarkAnglers Members have been asked to help with this event. It's time to hand the fun and skill if fishing to the younger generation! Contact me a.s.a.p. at lilley @lilleyslanding.com if you're serious about volunteering.

I think some of you guys need to lighten up.