Phil Lilley

I'll have to tie one and take a pic... I lost the only one I had today.

Boated up to just below Andy's house this afternoon. Wanted to get out and enjoy the low water... no generation. Well, it started moving as soon as I got up there but that was ok... fishing's great when the water starts. Had a 1/8th oz sculpin on the spin rod so I went to work. Bounced it off the bottom- they seemed to like it swimming better so I tied a 3/32nd on instead so I could work it slower and straighter. Missed a ton of strikes. Had alot of fish on for one second- then pulled out. They were the ones I never felf bite, just went to jig and they were there. Miss them almost every time. But I did get a few to the boat. Wanted to catch some fish on the fly rod so I tied on a #16 tan thin skin scud the Jeremy ties and set the indicator so the the fly drug the bottom but not by much. Caught a couple but again, they were taking it short so I missed more than I hooked. Moss got alittle bad so I went back to the jig. Caught a few nice rainbows. There were large schools of rainbows all over. All holding in pockets and spots, not spread out at all. Saw some really nice rainbows- very impressed with what I was seeing. No midging- was disappointed in that. I did put on a brown jig I tied from some jig head I order- that are ball jigs tied on small hooks- almost like micros. Tied with sparce hackle, low profile. They like them but not moving, just drifting in the current. The water slowed and almost stopped by the time I headed in for dinner. 6:30 pm.

Filmed on my new Flip Video camera. Still feeling it out but I'm hoping it will make it easier and quicker to get videos on the forum.

Fished yesterday for an hour. Made a drift from Fall Creek to Trout Hollow using night crawlers. Jane and Jess, a couple of our extended family (college kids who either live with us literally or are over at the house enough to be called a Lilley kid) wanted to go fishing before Jane left for Philly to live for 9 months. Neither had fished Taney or caught fish. Jane caught the first rainbow, then Jess caught the next three. They missed quite a few but caught on quick to the bites they were getting when drifting. They were running 1 unit and the wind was blowing upstream most of the time. Jess caught this brown in front of Trout Hollow Resort. Nice brown- she fought it well. Released happy and ready to grow into a trophy someday. "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360">

You do this with layers, right?

We've had quite a few knock down, drag outs on keeping bass... we don't need another one.

I'll have to have my wife take a pic of me in the position... it won't pretty!

Thanks for posting- esp the pics. There are several guys who fish below Bagnell. If you don't get your answer here, ask it on the Bagnell forum.

Thanks for posting- welcome to the forum.

Only got out for a couple of hours mid day. Was slow for me. noon-2 pm. I wanted to catch it before they brought on the 2nd unit but didn't. 2 units. Drifted once from Lookout to Narrows and only saw one rainbow against the bluff bank. Caught him. #8 grey stimulator. Could not get my hand around him... was very thick. Fought very hard. Boated to the dam but stopped at Big Hole on the north side. Threw a 1/8th oz sculpin jigs around the dead water on the side and caught this small mouth bass. He didn't want to come in either. Saw him jet off the bank and take the jig. Nothing else. Had one other bite drifting down to KOA.

Excellent post!! Welcome to the forum. We look forward to many more informative posts from you! Phil

No- went to Springfield with Marsha. To Sams.

Yes- been doing it for a couple of years now. Was in a hurry when I posted the report. The water was coming up -- it was actually running higher than I like to fish a dry along the bank. They were running one unit when I left the house but was rising when I got up there. I try to hit the pockets and seams along the bank. There was quite a bit of leaf matter floating, esp when the wind picked up. I didn't see any rising at all. Only saw 2 rainbows and I caught both. The nicer one- he refused it the first drift but I was able to get another cast to him and he turned and took it. Cool. He was pushing 19 inches and did not want to come in. The second was holding close to the surface and he just took it when I drifted it over him. Gotta do that more often!!

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Got off the lake just in time... pouring rain here and some hard winds. But it will end shortly. Did manage to catch 2 rainbows on a stimulator against the bluff bank below Lookout... 2 units running this morning. One drift- all I had time for.

If that's the worse thing I've done... I'm doing good. No spell checker on Photoshop! Don't hold your breath waiting for me to fix it... I got bigger fish to fry!! Thnaks!

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Blue gill are not a game fish in Missouri and thus can be used for bait. Most commonly used for catfish on trot and limb lines.

If you see a picture you want, right click your mouse over the pic one time. The box will pop up and if you look at the very bottom it will say " properties ". Click that and it will pop up another box that contains the URL on the pic under the heading Address. Thats the http:// blah blah blah830987gogi4598jpg.com mumbo jumbo. From there you want to copy the entire http:// mumbo jumbo with your mouse... all of it. Then, wherever you want to add the picture.. you click the tiny picture of the photo on your post.. it is located on this email right above where I started this message.. where it says Hello Zack.. if start at the little lowercase ' b ' and go over to the right 7 boxes. It is inbetween the 2 +'s. When that pops up.. hit backspace to erase the blue highlighted info. Then paste the pics URL that you copied. Thats it. You can also add your own copied pics anywhere on this website by simply putting the [ then the abbreviation for the word image written simply as img and another ]. it looks like this only not with the * before the img and after the img as seen below : [*img]http://reelflyrod.com/images/1222032280506-457319682.jpeg[/img*] (that is a giant pic of the Sage fly reel) You can mess around on this forum under the Geek Squad section. Just label your posts TEST and go to town. Here is a direct link you can click : Geek Squad - Ozarkanglers.com Forum

I took a father and two sons out this afternoon for about 2 hours. We started at the dam and drifted almost to our place. Egg flies first and then gulp eggs at Fall Creek. Only picked up nice rainbow right at the start. The water was coming on strong and there were lots of stuff in the water so maybe that's why we didn't do well. Took a short break at the resort and then back at it. Drifted down from the dock and immediately started catching rainbows on Gulp Eggs - white/orange mainly. The boys each caught fish and so did dad. 11 in all from Lilleys down past Taneycomo Acres on one drift. Quite at 5 pm. So catching isn't as "fair" as I reported the other day. Had a family fish yesterday late afternoon and report the same thing - good drifting when the water gets up and rolling. They even went down to the old gold mine below Branson and did well.

I'll need names and addresses of all who donate flies please. Thanks!

3 years and first post... pretty amazing. Have to tell us a fishing story or two.

I pulled a tube from 2 till 4 today above K Dock and didn't see any whites. But that's too early. No other boats recreating, a couple fishing. Pretty quiet. You know, I bet there are some whites at the pothole in the evening with the water running! That cool water may be the key.

Francisco Samuel http://springfield.cardinals.milb.com/milb...&pid=501740 This guy pitched one inning last night. All night I was watching the speed gun... no one pitched over 90, most 84. This guy came in and his first pitch was 00. We thought... was that 100? Then 103! Then 104!! He couldn't throw strikes though. Just not sure if the gun was right. If so, he may go places if he can learn to control location.

I'm going to give it 24 hours and then I'll close it. I don't like closing topics - I'll do it only under extreme situations. This is not one... but I'll do it for Bill since he's requested it.