Phil Lilley

That site- flydreamer.com - interesting format. Kinda like facebook. I'd like to find out if it's an application they're using or did they come up with it. I think it would be a nice addition to OA. I joined flydreamer and posted some AK videos. They got 150 views pretty quick.

MWP does check our boat registrations occasionally... not in the last few years though. And they used to on the lake itself when they were separate water patrol. Probably not anymore. USCG Auxiliary has offered to come and inspect our boats for registration and safety this spring. Give us a sticker if we pass. It's voluntary and free.

Damsels in Distress from Sharptail Media on Vimeo. Wonderful Video.

We were experimenting with shad flies and floating indicator flies. Trout were coming up and hitting but not taking them. I got one hook up- small rainbow. Not much else happened. The water was dropping and that's never good. You said you were doing pretty good...

Note: This is at the NATURE CENTER... not the Library. Don't be confused and show up at the wrong venue.

Hope to see lots of trout enthusiasts Friday at the MDC Nature Center. Bill Babler and myself will be there to talk trout fishing, fly and spin. MDC's best, Shane Bush, fisheries biologist and Clint Hale, Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery manager, will be there to provide some good information about Taneycomo's health as well as MDC's management plan. I think Clint and Shane want to review what's going on with the brown trout population. Doors open at 6:30. We have to be out of the building by 9 p.m.

I was in a hurry when editing the video. I see I missed the last text edit.

Still having fun with the new cameras... Winter keeps hanging on. Single digits last night but warming towards the weekend. Today's 40 degrees felt like the tropics. And the winds were civil. And, the trout bit! No generation this afternoon. The video is an attempt to show all the jigs and flies our trout are biting on today. What didn't work? What's NOT in the video--an olive micro jig or a ginger 1/100th ounce Bassnapper jig. I was fishing close to Short Creek the whole time. On the fly rod, I was using 6x tippet and fishing from 4 to 6 feet deep depending on the depth of water. The spinning rod--was using 4-pound Trilene XL 4-pounnd line. If you can't read the by-lines, I caught rainbows on a black half-micro jig, a purple half-micro jig, a pink half-micro jig with a chrome head, red zebra midge, a black zebra midge, orange head 1/32nd ounce brown/orange jig, 1/32nd ounce purple jig, and a 1/32nd ounce white jig. My camera somehow did not film a catch with a 1/125th ounce sculpin jig (fly rod). Point is they are really biting good when the water isn't running right not, especially on a jig and float. By the way, you can see what the levels have been this past week by visiting Ozarkangler's Lake Taneycomo Levels Page. I was amazed at the size of rainbows we're catching down at the Landing right now. I caught 2 rainbows this afternoon that would have gone a pound at least. That's for all you R.A.W. guys this weekend. Oh yea- and release all the crappies please! Just kidding. The crappies are scattered all up and down the bank, out over the weed beds from Scotty's to the Fish House and even further down. Don't be scared to get out 80 feet from the bank and fish 4 to 8 feet deep with jigs or minnows. I think it's better if there's a little current. Back to trout... Same old bait is doing the best. A Gulp white egg with another color on a #8 hook fished on the bottom or under a float on a jig head 4 to 6 feet deep is best. Air injected night crawlers is working well too. Four-pound line is perfectly fine. Our water still has some color to it. Water temperature, by the way, is 43 degrees, down 2 degrees in the last couple of weeks. Spoons are catching mostly stocker rainbows, not much to the size but jigs are catching a little bigger trout. Last weekend, a lot of guys told me they caught brown trout, not just one or two but several. Most of them were throwing or trolling medium crank baits and jigs. No legal browns that I know of but some pushing 19 inches. That's a good sign. I have no report for wading below the dam during no generation but it has to be good. We've been catching some real nice rainbows close to the cable down past Big Hole drifting and throwing white jigs so I know they're up there. The shad run was small, and now more than a week has past since we've seen any signs of shad. We only caught rainbows on white down about 1000 yards below the cable and didn't catch any trout with big bellies below the Big Hole. That doesn't mean we've had our chance and it's over. . . we've had shad runs as late as May in past years. Table Rock Lake is prime for a shad kill. It's water is in the upper 30's in some areas. We are waiting with baited breath! If you're fishing a straight jig, no float, during this low water (no generation), I'd suggest throwing as small as jig as the wind will let you. What I mean by that is when the wind blows fairly hard, it's tough to throw a small jig. But if the wind is calm, you can drop to a 1/32nd ounce jig, although you would have to use small diameter line like 2-pound or even less. You can get away with using 4-pound line with 1/8th and 3/32nd ounce line but I'd drop to 2-pound if using 1/16th-ounce and less. Stay with the normal colors--sculpin, white, black, brown, sculpin/ginger or orange, olive, white/gray and purple. Brett Rader told me purple was the hot color for him when I saw him on the water the other day. He was right--I've caught good rainbows on purple the last few days.

Good way to get a topic deleted...

Bill, it's been a long time since you've been "in trouble" so don't sell yourself short. I think both you and Eric showed you are professionals. Thanks

Gentlemen, I regret posting these videos. My intent was not to compare or judge them. I posted them as video fishing reports. I didn't see this coming at all. Yes we share fishing information here. Bill is the best... and Bill receives cold shoulders from a lot of his piers because he so free with good, timely information. He is the moderator on this forum and yes it is probably the most viewed fishing forum for Table Rock Lake. Eric Prey has been judged here as a fishing guide who only posts fishing reports for personal gain and copy/pastes reports on numerous fishing sites. He has also been unfairly compared to a Table Rock legend. Eric and others are trying to make a modest living at what he loves to do. This topic hurts his image, and it's all because I chose to post his video. I would delete this but the damage is done.

I'm sorry I posted the videos... Sorry, Eric.

Not sure what you mean.

Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World host, Timmy Horton (BASSMASTER) float fishes with Longboat Outfitters for a two day Ozarks river adventure down the North Fork of the White River. Full Outdoor Channel Episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BumlV70QA8

Apple doesn't do flash... on their small devices.

I bet it's a flash thing... I just posted the link and the forum made it a player. http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/ seminar/stone_seminar_2014.mp3 Here's the link again but I put it in 2 lines. Copy and paste it into your browser and put it all together. It should work. You will need a player. Your computer should have one.

This Friday evening, January 31, Bill Babler and I will be at the MDC Nature Center from 7-8:30 p.m. to talk about fishing Lake Taneycomo. Also, representatives from MDC will be there to share information about the health of the lake. Come on by and at least say hi!

Here's the link to the audio for the seminar last evening in Springfield. Friday, January 24, 2014 at The Library, Springfield, MO. http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/seminar/stone_seminar_2014.mp3 Bill Babler was sitting over to the side and his comments were picked up by Stone's mic but I had to raise the volume on the sections he talked so bear with the imperfections. We'll do better next time. http://www.ozarksfishin.com/

28 boats today. Weights were not as good as past years. People said they were either biting short or not all at. Slow and not many good trout. Lots of browns caught though... strange. No keepers but some up to 19 inches. This is an artificial lure tournament so most threw jigs, spoons and small crank baits. No one fished above Fall Creek.

I sent some guys down there yesterday- they couldn't find them either. Hope they didn't move...

Well... Phil Stone spoke on Table Rock. I listened.

Fished Little Red once... would like to learn more about it and get there soon.

I recorded the entire seminar. Should be edited sometime tomorrow.

Right. 30 per day, no length limit.