Phil Lilley

When: Saturday, August 29 Start 8 am Weigh in 4 pm What: A fishing tournament on Lake Taneycomo in Branson, Missouri sponsored by Lilleys' Landing Resort and Marina Why: To raise money for the Branson Fire and Police auxiliary funds to help support our community. Where: Lilleys’ Landing Resort & Marina, 367 River Lane, Branson, MO A free lunch will be provided after the weigh-in! Enter your two-man team by emailing Megan@lilleyslanding.com for an entry form. Then drop off or mail in your completed copy of the entry form and your $75 entry fee to Branson Fire and Rescue attn: Kory Klein, 110 Crosby Street, Branson, MO 65616 Prizes will be awarded for 1st through 3rd places and big fish. Each boat that enters will get a raffle ticket, and additional raffle tickets can be purchased for $5. If you register before the tournament day, you also get an extra raffle ticket! 50% off boat rentals will be provided by Lilleys’ Landing for tournament teams. To reserve a boat rental call 417-334-6380. If you need any assistance contact Kory Klein (417) 294-3319

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Exactly. My Chiro, who is a health nut, even thought about selling them to his patients.

Sorry you're have a problem but it is on your end, not the forum format. Dano is on the right track...

I take alot of people to Danna's. She has great food for the money and she does alot for the community.

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Ever heard of these? A friend told me about them in AK. Sounds like a pretty revolutionary idea. Tobacco biz should be scared. Gov't should be too... lots of taxes lost. Anyone try them?

For those wondering, Bill and I did NOT buy the camp we looked at. Let's just say the owner and myself didn't come to the right terms. We continue to look for another place. It is fun looking!!

Actually, he was taking salmon carcasses out in the river to dump. That's why the rainbow fishing was so good in front of the dock. Throw a handful of salmon roe out and you wouldn't believe the size rainbows that'd fight for them! But catching the big ones wasn't easy. The smaller ones- yes they'd bite anything.

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You need only to use tippet, no tapered leaders. In September, take 4x, 3x, 2x and 1x for the shooting line rigs. I'd throw in 5x if you're going to do any dry fly fishing- so you need to take a 5 wt with floating line. I use 7 wt for rainbows. We broke one rod on the plane ride to Ugashik so you might think about taking extras.

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Sitting here in Minneapolis waiting on my next flight to KC. I purchased an annual pass to the internet here but it won’t let me go online so I’m typing in my Alaska report on Word and will post it when I get home tonight. I have to use my time wisely… we are leaving for Port Arthur, TX tomorrow morning for Sara and Josh’s new home (our daughter and son-in-law), taking the rest of their stuff to them, plus their dog and cat. So no time to waste! This was my first trip to Alaska in 5 years that I didn’t guide or work on cabins- just fished. It was nice and tiring at the same time. Fishing is hard work… especially when the fish are soooo big. The weather was too nice! In the 70’s the first week and some of the second with little clouds and lots of sun. I found about 7-9 pm each day I found myself thinking, “when is it going to darken” I mean it’s still bright at 10 pm! That got to me a little. Too much sun? We did get sun burned and the mosquitoes were bad. I’m coming home with more bite mark than ever. But the last 4 days were cloudy and cooler and it even rained yesterday. The last 2 years on the Naknek the sockeye run has been huge. Last year they let 3.3 million reds “escape” into the river. They do this by closing commercial fishing for periods of time. They didn’t this year, only letting 1.1 million through, which is really about the amount they want to move up to spawn. But they run ended a week early for whatever reason. May have been the weather. River temps reached 68 degrees which is extremely rare. It usually runs in the low 50’s. They are blaming the poor King run on the water temps too. Friday, they reported a new wave of kings moving into Naknek but fishing in the river and up Big Creek remained very slow. It may get better. Other parts of AK reported very poor king numbers. I’ve heard Kodiak has virtually no kings. The Nush, which is known for it’s king run, was extremely slow. Duane and Mona flew over to Bristol Bay Adventure Lodge on the Nush so that Duane could guide all last week. I heard he reported only catching 1-4 kings per day. Our sockeye fishing the week of the 4th was excellent in the afternoons. Vince, Paul and I didn’t have any trouble catching our limit of 5 each. Reds ran from 5 to 10 pounds and fought very hard. We caught them moving thru fast, shallow runs using shooting line and purple, olive or black wooly buggers. We’d catch a few small rainbows in the same runs. The second week we had trouble catching even half a limit. We resorted to fishing the holding pods of salmon in eddies upriver, dropping the same flies down to them from our anchored boat. Friday, along with a fresh waves of kings, we did get more sockeye and the guys at the lodge caught their limits to take home Saturday. Rainbow fishing was pretty good, although we didn’t spend a whole lot of time targeting them. We picked a few mornings to hit the shoals, drifting leach patterns through the bigger rocks and pockets. We landed a few in the 25 inch range but the best rainbow fishing was up close to camp on 2 breaks, one just down from camp and the other up by the access. Rainbows would “crash” on the surface, feeding on smolt migrating out of the lake, through the river to the ocean. We also had a good population of rainbows in front of our dock where we’d throw our salmon carcasses after cleaning. But we would fish small dries in the evening and do well in front of the dock. Several 25-27 inch rainbows were landed by clients. We boated over to Idavain Creek the first week and walked up to the meadow water looking for grayling and rainbows. The creek was low, very low, and the fish were hiding under the outside cut banks and wouldn’t come out even to look at our flies. We did find a few out in the open and caught a few buy it was disappointing. Only one bear encounter. My guys our second week were alittle more adventuresome… we boated to Brooks and fished the upper river above the falls on Wednesday last week. Only one bear and he didn’t even see us. The river was very low and much of it didn’t hold fish. We picked up a few on elk hair caddis and stimulators along with swinging black wooly buggers in pockets. The last little stretch before the falls did hold a bunch of large rainbows- Scott hooked several but couldn’t land them. I got ahead of the guys and sat down at the trailhead leading to the viewing platform. We refer to this short trek at “bearastic park” because the grass is over your head and there are bear beds all through the area, just next to the falls where we counted 13 adult males. It’s pretty nerve racking for newbes. I sat with my back to the grass, enjoying the river when I smelled something, then heard deep breathing. The smell was bear-breath and the breathing was from a big male that was 6 feet behind me in the grass, stopped to pier out over the river before heading in for a drink. Of course, he let me move before dropping over the bank or he’d be right on top of me. Never smelled the breath of a bear before… smelled like fish. (2 pics) Thursday we boated to Margot Creek, one of my favorite places. It sits at the base of a beautiful mountain with lush, green trees and plants of all kinds around the creek itself. It too was very low but because Naknek Lake was so low, the gravel bars that usually are out in the lake were exposed which extended the river out into the lake by more than 150 yards. That’s what we fished. It was full of dolly varden and rainbows and they readily took the guy’s wooly buggers. I resorted to dry flies… I fished and caught more fish this trip than any other trip in my life on dry flies. We caught dozens of dollies and less rainbows- largest rainbow was 25 inches and alittle bigger on the dollies. But they were skinny due to it being so early in the season. They’ll fatten up when the salmon start laying eggs. The bears gave us a time- there was one small 3 year old who really wanted to be our friend. He had sad eyes and would walk up to us till we’d knock rocks together and scare him off. I thought he was awfully small to be out on his own. Then there was the bear that got downwind of 3 of our clients fishing in the lake for sockeye- they and their guide, Matt, were keeping fish and had 3 in a net. The bear REALLY wanted those fish but the clients wouldn’t give them up, even after Matt told them to throw them in the lake. Matt finally convinced the bear to leave them along by throwing rocks at him. I personally don’t like to throw rock and hit a bear… never know how he will react. But it worked. I got it on video… along with other bears that walked up on us. Friday, Scott and his dad Roger and I flew to Ugashik Narrows, 65 miles south of King Salmon. This is another favorite place for me. It’s a short area between 2 big lakes and hold lots of fish most times on the summer. I, again, stayed with dry flies. It’s not deep at all, knee deep for the most part, and move fairly slowly in a large flat area. That’s where I did the best, catching 20 artic char and 8 grayling. Char ran from 20 to 28 inches and graylings were from 18 to 24 inches. The char were skinny too but not as thin as Margot dollies. One male char ran me in my backing twice- they fight hard! The other guys fished some in the shallow area but liked the upper narrow where the water was deeper and faster. They used shooting lines and buggers and caught sockeye, char, one silver salmon and lake trout. It was a wonderful day- had it all to ourselves!! That’s about it. I may add some more if you have questions… things I missed. They were seeing a few silvers in the lower river on Friday so here in another week they’ll have silver to catch at camp. I will throw this out… Jim’s camp is open starting the week of September 19th – this could be an incredible rainbow week, depending on when the sockeye end their spawning run. The river is low, unlike the last 2 years when it has ran high. High water makes it difficult to wade the shoals where the salmon spawn but low water means you can wade and fish them affectively. Jim told me he’d like to book the week and he wants to offer discounts but I’m not sure what it will be yet. I’d suggest waiting closer to the week and see what happens in the run. If you’re flexible, this could be an excellent chance to get in on some of the world’s best rainbow fishing at a great rate. No- I won’t be going back up in September… I have a grandson, my first, due to arrive in September so I’m not going anywhere except to Texas! These images are from Brooks River and Falls. This is the bear that breathed on me... you can see the tuff of grass I was sitting on in the pics of the bear drinking. 13 bears on the falls. This is at the top of Brooks River overlooking Brooks Lake. Great view. These images are from Margot Creek. The following pics are from the Naknek River In front of camp. Small jack salmon. This is upper Shawback's shoal. I took it to show Bill how shallow the river is right now. These are the new cabins and shower/bath house being built next to Jim's place and used by the camp. Very nice. Flushable toilets and showers. New dining hall floor set in by Duane really improves the look of the place. The following pics are from the Ugashik Narrows: Images put together for a big view of the whole narrows.

First time on the internet in 2 weeks. Can I still type? Barely. Is my right arm sore? Definitely! Too many fish on to count... too many new bear friends to remember. Yes Vince, we did go to Brooks AND Margot and loved it! Caught char ON A DRY all day Thursday plus rainbows- they wouldn't leave it alone. Today was the grand finale... flew to Ugashik Narrows and caught more, BIGGER char ON A DRY plus 22-24 inch grayling. One of our guys caught a sockeye ON A DRY. They caught a silver and 2 lakers too... Bill you'll love that!! LAKERS in the Narrows. Add that to our list. First REAL trip to Alaska where I didn't have to guide- just fished and loved it. Can't wait to get home though... More later. And yes pics and videos.

"> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="660" height="405"> This one is of the flight over. We flew to Yantarni with Sam Egli of Egli's Flight Service out of King Salmon, Alaska in his Jet Bell helicopter. What a ride! South over Big Creek, then over part of Becharof Lake, the second largest lake in Alaska, the part of Ugashik Lake and then started lifting over the mountains. Once over the snow capped mountains, we could see lush valleys with rivers and waterfalls all over the place. Saw bears and moose. Then we dove into a canyon and followed Yantarni Creek to the ocean.

"> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="660" height="405"> Just to update you on what's going on with the camp... I am going to meet with Bill Martin Sunday night and may go with him to the refuge office Monday to take to the refuge manager about getting the permits transferred to me. That's the key to the sale of the camp. If the permits are transferred, I've got the camp. I've read where it may take 45 days or more for the process. Am also going to visit with Mr Martin about Bill and I heading up to camp in August. We feel if the permits go through and I buy the camp, we need to be at camp for as much of the season as possible for several reasons. First, we need to see how everything runs, how it is setup. Second, we need to see what the fishing is like and take pictures for promo materials and a website. That's it in a nutshell. There's an explaination on youtube of what you're seeing... better put one here too. You can see the airstrip to the right of the river. The river has cut the strip in half over the years but still plenty of room to land planes, we are told. There's also the beach and the ocean itself for landing. The camp is located at the end of the strip. You can see a circle. Can't really see much else. The camp isn't much to look at anyways... the leaves on the trees aren't out and it's pretty brown. We get around with 4-wheelers. Up and down the river as well as out to the ocean.

We had a no-show last night. It's open for 3 nights, single offlake, #10, $59 per night. King bed. Full kitchen. Have to book for 3 nights. Call 1-800-284-2196

King could easily put a redirect on the http://riversmallies.com index page to the new forum site and keep his standing in the search engines at least. Al, if you know King well enough, I could help. He wouldn't know me from Adam.

Thanks for sharing... we will pray for a good report.

Lake isn't bad at all. Not sure about the wading below the dam. When I've been up there isn't not too bad. People are spread out except at Rebar.

Quote from the same page 6/24 - Mend it once...mend it right! Such a simple thing that gets overlooked by the masses who nymph fish. Most people do dome sort of mend but the right mend may be the single most important thing you can do to catch more fish. I shared how we do it with Tim and Booth and both, I believe found out something new. Whether you're mending upstream (which is probably 90% of the time) or downstream (in a few unique current seams) you want to be mending all of your fly line above (or below) your float. That will give you the longest, most drag free drift you can get and that will catch you more fish. Very good and detailed information. I like this kind of reporting.

Oh you beat me to the mark. We'll see about that.

Hmmmm. We'll do like ebay and see how many at the last minute. But for now... $265 And I'll move this to General Angling Discussion - ok?

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/2009...ONTPAGECAROUSEL LAKEVIEW — Three people were killed and two others injured when a six-passenger Piper Cherokee Lance airplane crashed around 9 a.m. Friday near the end of the runway at Gaston's White River Resort. Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery identified the dead as Warren William Langford, 52, of Chesterfield, Mo., and his 15-year-old son, Brendan Langford. Both were pronounced dead at the scene around 10:10 a.m. by Baxter County Coroner William Snow. Passenger Jacob Ritz, 15, of Bridgeton, Mo., was taken by ambulance to Baxter Regional Medical Center where he later died, the sheriff said. Injured were Donald Beckerle, 43, and Joshua Beckerle, 15, both of of Eureka, Mo. The elder Beckerle was treated and released at Baxter Regional Medical Center. Joshua Beckerle remained hospitalized in serious condition Friday evening in St. John's Medical Center in Springfield, Mo. Montgomery said the aircraft is owned by Propaire Inc. of St. Louis. The pilot and passengers flew into Gaston's Resort from St. Louis on Tuesday and were en route back to St. Louis when the plane crashed on takeoff. The cause of the crash was officially unknown Friday evening, the sheriff said, but a guest at the resort, who asked not to be identified, told The Bulletin that she observed the airplane tipping sharply from side to side as it became airborne. Kyle Cowart of Glenwood, a guest with his family at the resort since last Sunday, said he was reading his Bible on the deck of his cottage about midway down the runway when the Piper Cherokee passed by. He said he had been enjoying watching airplanes take off from the runway all week. He took special notice of the Piper Cherokee, though, because it was only about 15 or 20 feet above the runway, much lower than other airplanes he had observed during the week, he said. Two employees of the resort who either observed or helped the party load luggage onto the plane noted that the travel party had an abundance of luggage in addition to themselves inside the plane.

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