Phil Lilley

The flathead was kept- don't blame them. Good eating.

The White River was a warmwater river before the dam. It still is really. There are the same number of fish species -give or take- as Table Rock or Bull Shoals. Some of the guys fishing the tournament yesterday said they caught up to 20 bass on cranks below the Landing.

Caught on a sculpin (fly) at rebar. <iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b0CaOVlfjIA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Yea that would work. No restriction except catch and release... but it's to your advantage to keep you fish alive. They lose a lot of weight if they die. Even regular livewells fail. Ice chest with a good aerator works just as good.

Results. <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xItX-M_m4Xk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

38 teams in the tournament today. Here's a video of the start. <iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LGNd6tzOl7s?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

You can chose from these options what you see when you hit the View New Content button.

http://lilleystacklestore.com/xcart/home.php?cat=248&sort=orderby&sort_direction=0&page=2 OAF hats

Fishing license - you'll have to buy out of state license for both... only Ark and Mo residence can purchase the border lake permit. I would think Lower BS would be better for largemouth and that's where you're camping. If they're running water through the system in the spring, then the water on the upper lake is too cold for bass. Good walleye and white bass action though.

<img title="Taneycomo Brown Jan 18 2012" src="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/lake-taneycomo/files/2012/01/Taneycomo-Brown-Jan-18-2012.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="298" /> Our weather cycle has been pretty nice so far this winter here on <a href="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/lake-taneycomo/">Lake Taneycomo</a>. Mild temperatures have dominated January especially on weekends which is a nice change. Remember last January? Three out of 4 weekends we had snow and very cold wind. Last Saturday we almost hit 70 and this Saturday's forecasted for the 50's. Warmer on Sunday.<!--more--> Our trout have liked this nice weather too. Fishing, or catching, has been better than normal. <a href="http://mdc.mo.gov/regions/southwest/shepherd-hills-fish-hatchery" target="_blank">Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery</a> is doing their part stocking rainbows, and good sized ones too. <a href="http://www.swpa.gov/generationschedules.aspx" target="_blank">SPA schedule</a> say the Corp is running water most mornings during the week, some mornings pretty hard--4 units worth. But they're been shutting it down by noon. Weekends might be different. Generally they leave the water off Saturday and Sundays. Looking at the weather for this weekend and what they did last weekend, I'd say no generation this Saturday and Sunday. Trolling with spinners, medium crank baits and jigs is working well. I would troll starting below Cooper Creek and do down past the Landing. There's more room down there plus that's the area where Shepherd has been stocking their trout. Freshly stocked trout tend to stay close to the surface for a few days. Trolling lures run through this layer of water. Jig and float works good for these rainbows too. Live bait is definitely catching bigger numbers lately, or I should say it's been easier catching your limit using bait. Gulp Power Bait using a white and another color either drifting down the lake when the water is running or still fishing. Four-pound line is the right weight line to use right now. You don't need to drop to 2-pound. If the water is running, try minnows on a <a href="http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/?showtopic=30562">drift rig</a>. Water off--fish with air injected night crawlers. On calm days, no wind, I've been fishing jigs straight line and using 1/8th oz if the water is running and 1/16th oz if it is not. I'm using white, sculpin/orange and olive below the dam during generation, then dropping the white and using brown and sculpin below Lookout. Try a 1/16th oz jig under a float if the water is running and fish it about the depth of the water you're fishing or a little deeper. Go to micro or marabou jigs in same colors and experiment with the depth of the jig till you find that happy level where the trout will bite. <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2139" title="Lookout on Taneycomo" src="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/lake-taneycomo/files/2012/01/Lookout-on-Taneycomo.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="270" /> Fly fishing has been pretty good below the dam when the water is shut down in the afternoon and evenings. Midge hatches continue to come off especially later in the day. Cracklebacks and soft hackles stripped when the water is a little choppy is working - #14 and #16 green and red. I've done well using #16 red or rusty zebra midges under a palsa indicator around where I see trout rising later in the evening in the Narrows area but to be honest there are a bunch of small rainbows here--lots of action but not much size. I got out on Thursday late afternoon. Generation ended at 1 p.m. and the water was dropping out as I got up to the top of what we used to call KOA, not Trophy Run. I found a few trout off the end of the island there on the south side of the lake midging and caught a half dozen on a red #16 zebra under a palsa indicator set 12 inches deep. First one was a decent brown, others were all rainbows, small ones. <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2140" title="Taneycomo Brown Top View" src="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/lake-taneycomo/files/2012/01/Taneycomo-Brown-Top-View.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="217" />

I still have hundreds of stickers. Tried to sell them for 2 for $1 and sold quite a few but not enough to pay for what I bought. I have not, though, advertised them very well. Now I'm giving them away free in our office. Buying and selling oa items is a tricky deal. We have hats and they've done very well over the years. I may look into selling other items in the near future but i'm not going to run into anything like I did on the stickers.

No one has mentioned using corn starch in their batter. I use quite a bit of it to make the batter crisp.

Does anyone have a good source and/or experience with pins? Anyone on the forum sell pins?

Blogs- they've always been there. Yes you can start a blog.

I guess not. Honestly, I hadn't noticed the old version did that.

It's been a long time comin' ... hadn't upgraded the forum version in quite a while so the change is pretty dramatic. I'm still looking around trying to figure out where everything is, especially in the admin section. But I think everything is working. Report anything that's not. One thing - invision said you're profile image was merged with your avatar images- in other words your profile pic is now your avatar image. Some of you didn't even know you had 2 images... no big deal. My avatar looks pretty grainy - I may go in and refresh it or change it. There are some new whistle and bells I'll be adding this evening. You'll see them show up soon. More of that social stuff. Make sure everything else is working- let me know if you see something that's not. I've gotten several emails lately saying they can't log in. Email me please... don't just let it go and get frustrated. I'll be glad to help. Thanks Phil

As soon as the update is done, I'll reinstall the plug in. Phil

I'm working with invision on several things and this is one. They should change all the image files to reflect the domain change tonight, plus a forum upgrade. The upgrade should fix the upload issue. If it doesn't, let me know and we'll keep working on it. Sorry about the trouble!! I hate it- I hate having to wait on others cause I don't have the know-how to fix things. Hopefully the upgrade won't disturb too many users... it'll be a change. I've seen some of the other newer forums. They should act the same- just look a little different. But it's been a couple of years since the last one and I've been told I need to keep up better for security reasons. Thanks.

Great report! After working on the Current River maps and reading your report, I feel like I've been there. Any pictures?

Launched at K Dock Ramp about 2 pm. Headed up towards the flats at Snapp and started on the bluff bank on the right. Jigs and swimming minnows working in all depths, caught one 10-inch crappie on the bottom in 18 feet of water. Tried the edge of the channel off the flats at Snapp- nothing but the wind was tough there. Headed up to Cedar and fished the mouth. Caught a bunch of small bass- no crappie. Tried out in the channel on the bottom for whites, where we've caught them in years past in the winter- nothing. Worked the bluff bank heading back down- nothing but small bass. Headed back to K- wind was still tough. Wanted to try the channel drop up from the dock (K) - too windy. Went into Trigger to get out of the wind. Fished around the docks there and caught one short crappie. Wind died- went and tried the flats/channel drop in front of the ramp- nothing. Water temp 41.

<a href="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/current-river/maps/"><img title="Current River Map One" src="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/current-river/files/2012/01/Current-River-Map-One.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="215" /></a> With the help of a couple of very experienced fisherman, we just posted all new Current River Maps on OzarkAnglers.Com. Check them out!! Thanks to Gavin Poppen and Al Agnew for their help!<img title="More..." src="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" />

Yea but it was after a very cold spell and shad dying. Not even close enough this year for that.

Football games is boring so I'm posting some short videos on the OzarkAnglers facebook page. If you're not a friend, you should be!