Phil Lilley

I didn't watch but a few minutes but this guy is saying that there's enough oil on the Northern Slopes of AK to last US 200 years. One source is an inside guy at BP.

What REALLY burns me, when I hear Gov. Richardson the other day say, no way are we going to let anyone drill in north AK!! Pebble Mine - google it. It's a huge gold and copper mine near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark which is the headwaters of THE largest salmon spawning rivers in the world. They are allowed to move ahead on this mine which puts these fisheries in danger. Mines are dirty and very toxic. Controlling runnoff is virtually impossible. Why then will people like Richardson not say a word about Pebble Mine but scream about ANWR!! There has to be more to it than what the public is seeing...

Front Page! Great work- thanks!

I think I see mostly smallmouth bass on the stringer- I'm sure there are more than 6 there. Not sure if there's a length limit there. MDC can still use this pic with your testimony or at least they can be aware of this guys activities, esp if he's a local. MDC does watch this board but I'll make sure an agent is alerted.

Coy and I only had a few hours to fish this afternoon after shopping and such and a chamber dinner at 7 but really wanted to go down and fish with Trav below I left for Alaska next week. Got to his dock (thanks to our new map) at 3:30. Because of the rain yesterday afternoon, all the major creeks were muddy. The system that drove Trav in his closet dumped an inch of rain north of Branson but not a drop on us south of town. So we headed downstream. Fished Duck Cove (see map). It's a cove I had fished I bet 15 years ago and caught crappie there. Trav said we should fish shallow water - 1 to 2 feet deep. We wanted to see bottom and we could at 2-3 feet. First cast Trav caught a 14-15 inch largemouth. I kiddingly said that's a bad sign... how many times had I done that esp white bass fishing and not caught another fish. Did we catch another fish in that cove? I think Coy caught another bass on a sinko and Trav had another blow-up on his blue/silver rebel. He was working it like a top water plug- twitching it real slow. We headed to another cove- Sunken Forest Cove (Had to look at the map). Tons on blue gill here- nice ones too. Coy caught another bass on his sinko and missed a couple others. Trav caught another bass (pic) but as he pointed out, the first one was bigger. I ended up resorting to my fly rod and a red humpy- yes I caught 3 blue gill. It wasn't as easy as you'd think... those buggers were spooky and hard to fool. Would love to go back and fish all day for them. It was fun. Great time for just 2 hours of fishing. As Trav says- we'll have to do it again.

The laptop just arrived donated by Patfish - Pat Nelms from St Louis. Many thanks!!

Sockeye aren't picky... I bought thousands of wooly buggers years ago from Kenya for $3.00 per dz. That's what we took up there- nothing fancy at all and they LOVED them. It's terrible they all got burned up. They were great CHEAP flies.

We are pretty much set on flies and even equipment. I'm to my limit in baggage weight for the flight and mailing anything to King Salmon is slow and expensive. Hopefully when I get back I'll have a bunch of salmon and we'll have a big salmon grill party. Thanks to all!!!!!

Maps above now have pdf links at the bottom of each map. This will make it easier to print maps.

You'll have it take it up with invision ip board... they are the ones who designed this forum. Most used the "View New Posts" to see what new posts are made since the last time they were on. You can clear them by clicking the "Mark all forums as read and return to index".

I think I got it.

No way. 703-4 feet.

OK- should be correct.

I see... BUT we have the end of catch and release at the swim area- is this right or does it continue down to the end of zone #2?

yes

Can always use them but don't knock yourself out... people here have been very generous. Hard to say how much is enough. If you want an excuse to tie- go for it. But I think we'll be fine with what we have coming in.

Coy and I got out early this am- at the cable at 6:30 am. Fished the eddie above #1 using sculpin 1/8th oz jigs and caught 7 nice rainbows between 14 and 18 inches. One Coy hooked jumped 8 times. We worked the hatchery bank down past #3 outlet and caught a couple more rainbows. Down at what used to be #4 outlet, there water coming from the pipe again, we started hooking more rainbows in the eddie water against the bank. Made 3 passes and caught 10--12 more rainbows and one small smalley. Some of the rainbows were smaller but none under 12 inches. Drifted down to Lookout and fishing the eddie there. Caught 10-12 more rainbows on straight jig and we tried a jig and float and caught a few that way. All sculpin jigs. Great morning and lots of trout. Built up my confidence on fishing again. I wouldn't call it easy fishing- we had to work for them. Missed alot of strikes- had to pay attention. The fish we caught were all very healthy with pooching stomachs.

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Bull Creek, the fishable part, is really nothing more than a big cove of Lake Taneycomo. It is hardly ever floated and isn't serviced by any outfitters, also I float it when I get a chance. Beaver and Swan are quite a bit different. Actually, Roark is fished more than Bull, I bet. I'll have to think on this one a while. But I would lean to leaving it as part of the lake, at least for now.

Last I checked it was 50.

Generation is practically nonstop these days with the continual rain patterns. Table Rock is dropping slowly, then inching back up after a good rain. We will see this generation pattern for the rest of the summer and into the fall. Trout fishing continues to be good but in strange places. We've never sent this many anglers down to "The Landing" to catch their limit of trout before... but it continues to be the hot spot. Speculation- MDC is stocking more rainbows in this area compared to past years. Use to, the stocking boat would come up to our place (Lilleys Landing) and make their turn-a-round above the dock, dumping their fish all along the way. We haven't seen them up here all spring. The best area are just up from Monkey Island to just past it, from Scotty's Trout Dock to Bass Pro's Dock and then from Belk's past Roark Creek (I never thought I'd use a landmark like "Belks" to describe where to fish- almost sac religious). Rooster tails in yellow are catching freshly stocked rainbows as well as Spin-a-Lures plus drifting a white and pink Gulp Egg using a drift rig. The stockers being caught are good sized- averaging 12-13 inches. Also try a jig head with a Gulp Egg, orange, under a float 4-5 feet deep in these same areas. Early morning, it's been fairly good up below the dam, drifting a red san juan worm / scud #14 gray combination under a float 12-14 feet deep on the hatchery side of the lake from outlet #1 to just past the Big Hole. The rainbows we're seeing are thick, strong and big- most over 15 inches up to 19 inches. I had one almost take all my line off my reel before turning it and it was only 18 inches. Also drift a white 1/8th oz jig straight and get it on the bottom. If we weren't on the bottom we weren't getting bit the other day. Yes you'll lose some jigs but you'll also catch some incredible rainbows and one or two browns.