Phil Lilley

I am hoping that they use some of that money for enhancing the area just below Table Rock Dam in the way of deepening the channel, creating good, constructive habitat for big trout and other things that only a fish biologists would know how to do.

Benn watching this discussion... nothing in this topic that's positive or informative to anglers. I would ask that personal grudges and complaints to handled personally and not on a public forum where names are not used.... or take it to another forum that allows this type of conversation. I'm not taking sides nor do I have any opinion or dealings with anyone involved, just ending this before it gets even more ugly.

What color worked? Did you notice the wind helping?

Buy-Sell-Trade would work.

I think you can say that for anyone who sinks brush in a lake or pond.

Terry- there's a huge difference in big fish here and big fish there. The small fish on the Naknek would kick the butt of any big fish on Taney. You don't "walk" a big fish on the Naknek. You'll never land one if you don't make him work. If you let them rest, they'll just go to your backing again and again.

This should be interesting... I've already heard from a couple guides who think trees offer little value to a fishery. But I'll let them sound off on the subject.

Only got out for a couple of hours from 3:30 till 5:30 pm. Fished with Dan Hoy from Bass Pro and a couple of Naturalist from BP. They are working on a plan to develop an aquarium depicting Lake Taneycomo in their new eatery, "The Fish House" at the Landing. So we looked at some scuds, sow bugs, plantan, rocks and moss. And they caught some trout. We waded in just above the ramp... there were alot of people from the Big Hole upstream so we avoided the crowds. Not the fish though. There were plenty down by the ramp. We did have some trouble catching anything- using 7x flourocarbon, several varieties of midges and scuds- they'd look but no takers. I was trying to show Diana how best to create a dead drift. They started a generator I think about 4:30. Water came up and the trout really started eating. I tied on a San Juan and it was all over. They'd move 3 feet for it and even took it on a swing. She was having trouble fighting some of the ones she hooked cause of the 7x and they were fairly large rainbows but brought several to hand. Water only ran for a short time, then started to drop out but the trout kept feeding. I left them for an Options banquet at 5:30. Heard there's been alot of big browns caught out of #2 outlet already this fall. Several 14 to 18 pounders. Heard it 3rd hand but the source is very reliable. Sounds like a great brown season.

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Forgot this one.

I don't know where you'd get them but I still see people using cow bells and doing well. There's alot of leaves in the water right now and it's only going to get worse as fall marches on... you'll have to either deal with them or stay with power bait.

These are some pictures taken by Rick Osenga, a friend of mine who joined us the last week. He's retired and loves photography and thought his Alaska trip was an experience of a lifetime. Still lots of sockeye (reds). Party Time All bears are at Brooks. Margot Creek. Caleb with a nice char (Dolly). Moose affair at Margot. Mountains are Margot. Waterfall at 6,000 feet. Margot. River mouth at Brooks. Back on Naknek. Me and my son, Caleb. To the east at sunset, glacier mountains. Sunset to the west. Moonlite night at camp. None of these images were in no way touched up.

wildminnow- in hornyheadchub's defense, he was asking a good question, referring to a potential dangerous situation at a marina. taxidermist was "venting" about one experience he had a shop. All of us have had bad experiences at places- right? We've been on both ends of it- have a bad day at work and rub a customer wrong and your place is marked.. not that it's a bad place just not perfect. I can attest to this fact at my shop. I have bad days and am not the most friendly person and those I "help" walk away with a bad impression of Lilleys' Landing. Guess what I'm trying to say is that both taxidermist and divestudy have the right to defend their positions and I thank divestudy for entering into the conversation... I hope the thread continues in a constructive manner. We may have to consider adding a new topic - diving.

You know I hate sharing forwards cause they usually aren't what they seem... I suspected as much. Now I don't know if I should delete it...

My mom gave me a book before I left for AK a month ago with the above title. It's not the first time I'd seen or heard of the devotional. I took it to heart to read it each day and thru the daily reading, I learned alot. Being a Christian all of my life and hearing and studing the Word as I have, you'd think I'd know "more". But God has a way to show you new things everyday we look for them. This devotional has taught me this. If you have time and a heart for God, consider reading it. http://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php Buy the book or read from their website.

Caleb has some great video he'll upload to youtube shortly. Bears and a great bull moose. I liked the bears, even though one made me drop my video camera in the river. You get used to them... without losing respect for their potential power. You'd never seen so many FAT, happy bears at Brooks as we did the last couple of weeks. 9m sockeye will make any bear happy I guess.

The Plan! You gotta love Robin Williams......Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message. Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!) "I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan." 1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good 'ole' boys", we will never "interfere" again. 2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence. 3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave . We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them. 4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers. 5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby. 6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for awhile . 7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.) 8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything. 9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens. 10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan? "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' "

Congrats, Zach. Very impressive scores!

It makes a long day, flying 1800 miles. But it helps get me back in the right time zone. I feel like going to bed at 9 pm (6 pm back in AK) instead of being up all night and sleeping in till noon. But all is well this morning. My experience on the Naknek River this go round was much better than the first. Less stress and more fishing. No building and more BEARS! The weather was September-like... wet and windy. More wet than normal. The day we left (Sunday) it blew snow most of the day but nothing stuck. Alot of the low lying moutains were already snow covered which made the landscape all the more beautiful. We got everything packed up and boarded up before I left. The Johnsons flew out 24 hours after I did. They should be in the air over Canada right now. We put our valuables in storage in town so that the winter theives don't get to us like they did this year. I left my cabin open, not locked, so if you're up there, stop in and turn the heat on and stay awhile. Just sweep up before you leave. I debated on locking it... took a nice deadbolt up and installed it on the front door and everything. But they took a sledge hammer to the dining hall door to get it open last winter and I didn't want that done to my door. They'll get in one way or another. There's just nothing inside of value, except if they want to take my compost toilet, which they'll have to remove a wall or two cause it's too big to get out the doors now. We installed it before we built the doors in. Eighty-seven degrees was a shock when we stepped out of the St Louis airport yesterday. But it looks like it's going to cool down for us. I won't miss the 40-windy-wet weather of King Salmon and esp the colder weather that's ahead for them!!! But I will miss the grand outdoors, the mountains, the gorgous river and lake and of course the monster rainbows.

Life is full of situations when we just don't have control. We rely on doctors, medicines and in the end we just have to hold on to what we know. After my fall 3 weeks ago, xrays showed I had a spot on my right lung. The doc said they'd send it in to be read in Anchorage and for me to call back in 10 days. Turned out to be a scar from an infection... not sure when that happened?! Father, peace and faith... the Taylors need both. I ask that You help them with both. You know- You care- You love them. Do a work in their lives. Thank you-

I'll look into it but it may be a few days... be back home Tuesday. Phil

1. Always have a knife handy if anchored in a dangerous spot. 2. Lifejackets? They didn't have them in the boat apparently. They had time to grab them at least I'd think.

Sorry- call 1-800-284-2196 and ask for Jerry or Curtis and ask if we have any left.