Phil Lilley

It will be at least 6 more days, without a significant rain. We're tired of it... the recreational person is having a very hard time catching fish, esp if they don't want to boat to the dam and some don't. Steve from Wichita told me after I got back to the dock that he and his wife were at the dam earlier and saw lots of shad in the water and the fish were fighting over them on the surface. Of course catching was unreal. While I was up there doing One Cast, it was all forming. I took one pic of the edge of it. The pic doesn't do it justice. The lake is still dropping. .44 in the last 24 hours but that's down from .52 yesterday per day.

Still raining... it won't move

Shouldn't effect the lake level much.

May be our Bill Babler... looks like Shell Knob area. 8-10 inches in an hour.

Not trying to talk you into it... but you don't keep any fish. Measure them all, write it down. It's going to be a light attended contest this year. The high water I think is keeping people at bay.

Got out too late this am. Sun came out- the place was too lit up. Evening is better. Darker on that bank. Also lots of rises along that bank in the evening... already have the 4 wt with an elk hair tied on.

I tried a few new things last evening - they really didn't work too well. Still fine tuning. So I threw a jig for a little bit. I fished the shallow side from Andy's down, throwing it under the trees. It's deep just off the bank - 5-6 feet. I was fairly close to the bank so I could flip the jig - so I was in position to see the big brown come out - and I thought he took my jig. He came out and turned his head inward where I thought my jig was so I set - nope. But he didn't spook, just went back to his spot. He's still there I'm sure. I got a plan. Heading out shortly to see if it works.

Not seeing very many in the water but some trout are spitting them up.

Yeah - all of them are fine.

I was referring to spill gates on the shad, not turbines. We haven't had them come through the turbines in years, even last year during the maga freeze.

This is going in a bad direction.... going to end it.

I'm surprised they didn't say anything about the walleye - you guys said the numbers last summer were incredible, catching them well into August. What about food? Threadfin shad? With the cold blast last winter, that might have killed off a bunch. We usually see shad come over the spill gates here on Taney but last year and this year we see very few. Seems like all indicators point to lack of threadfins.

Yep - you did better than I did!! It's fun when it works. Thanks for sharing. I think Nathan reached out to you all about getting some c/r pins and patches.

It's amazing how much rain the area got last week and the effects of it on our lakes.  Rain amounts were over 4 inches over the whole basin with big areas that received much more, up to 10 inches.  Beaver Lake was already full so Table Rock got the brunt of all the rain.  It rose most than 12 feet in a few days. Over this past week, releases amounting to more than 43,000 cfs at Beaver and 21,000 at Table Rock have moved a lot of that flood water through the system to Bull Shoals.  Beaver dropped 3 feet to 1128.5 feet and Table Rock has only dropped 2 feet to 925.8 feet.  But Table Rock is dropping more than 6 inches presently.  It needs to get down close to 920 before we see a reduction of flow on Taneycomo. Water temp is about 55 degrees on Taney and clear. The scud bite is still unreal.  And the number of trophy trout is too.  Unofficially we're over 70 registered so far this month.  Most have been rainbows.  https://lilleyslanding.com/trophy-release-2022-2t/ Anglers are coming in saying the trout they're catching mainly in the trophy area are coughing to scuds to the tune of hundreds.  Some fish their mouths are full of undigested bugs while their bellies are bulging.  They're taking scuds but not able to get them in their stomachs.  Crazy. So what's the best bait?  You guessed it, scuds.  #12 or #14 gray or tan with uv in the dubbing.  The scuds I'm seeing in the cleaning sinks are an olive brown or sculpin color. Most guides are still using a scud/egg combination, 4 pound line and either a 1/4 oz or 5/16 oz bell weight. Best area is from the cable to the MDC boat ramp but they're catching them all the way down past our resort on this duo. Orange Gulp Powerbait is also working out in front of our place down past Cooper. I'm still catching rainbows on a 1/8th oz white jig at the cable down to Trophy Run.  But the best area is from outlet #1 to past the Big Hole.  Not much below than.  The bites at the cable to quick and I'm missing 4 of 5 of them.  Shad flies should be good too.  I haven't tried them but Brett Rader said he's really doing good using them. There are some trout in the creeks but mostly close to the mouth where the water is mixed with the 70+ temps in the creek and the 55 in the main lake.  Turkey is the best.   View full article

There's no such rules in writing. Not going to happen either. Won't change anything anyhow. Tons of lurkers that will take into and go and catch and eat bass... and trout. Always been that way and always will. If you post keeping bass here or any other forum/social media you'll get criticized. At least here you won't be bullied.

Someone asked about Ozarkanglers hats and I can't find the topic. So here's another style that came in today. https://lilleyslanding.com/product/ozark-anglers-hat-brown/ And the previous one. https://lilleyslanding.com/product/ozark-anglers-logo-hat-gray/

Fun.

We've had 15 "trophies" registered the last 2 days.

I haven’t been to the dam much this week. Everyone is using scuds that I know of. I threw white jigs this evening and this happened. also caught some whites along the south bank in slower water.

Post a pic of your scud. Eggs are working too.

https://lilleyslanding.com/product/ozark-anglers-logo-hat-gray/

I'll let you know.

That's only <9,000 cfs... that's a little more than one unit at TR. Pretty impressive flow. That's the amount of water running into the lake because it's not dropping at all. In contrast, seeing what they're running at TR - again, that's what's coming into TR because it's not dropping either.