Phil Lilley

There are a host of reports from the past week... and I'm sure more to come.

If it's soft - it is not legal. The name implies it's soft.

Gezzz... that's no fun at all!! Hope your recovery time is quick! It's not a good time of year to be down!!

The big bait he gave me was 13 inches long and weighed a ton.

I agree. It doesn't sound right. I hope a conservation-minded person or group buys the riverfront land and keeps it free from development. If anyone hears of a group like that, post it cause I'd be interested in helping.

I use to have one... the previous owner of Castaic Baits gave me one- out-of-stock size he had made special. But he asked for it back when his inventory ran low and he sold the business. He sent me a bunch of smaller rainbow baits. Still have them- don't ever fish them. I don't have any rods that are big enough to throw them!!

You got to get over here more, Don. But you know, Babler hasn't caught one over 3 pounds in his life

It's really not that dark. The black fibers just enhance the light fur- not meant to darken the fly. 5% may be too much. One trick is to cut the fibers to about 3/8 inch before blending.

I bet he ate a 3 lb rainbow for breakfast! Photoshop works wonders with fish pics... you can make them as big as you want to. And if you hold the fish WAY out in front of you, it makes it even bigger.

Photoshop works wonders with fish pics... you can make them as big as you like. Thanks for the report, Don!!!

It's been down- off and on. Water may be the problem (rain). I may have a connection that's getting wet.

Interesting- I'm sitting here watching the troutcam- there's someone fishing with some sort of egg or dough ball and he's dropping it right in front of the camera. He's had multiply bites--trout taking the bait and blowing it back out and he's not even feeling the strike. the creek chubs are poking at it like crazy but again, no set of the hook. But for the most part, the trout aren't paying any attention to it.

Yea- we have a "color" vote. I was beginning to wonder if I should have only had 2 choices. But 17 votes? I thought for sure this would explode with traffic, votes and comments. The shuffling issue has gotten more votes!??

I have told people in the past to update their versions if they don't have the latest and that's helped in some cases. It is running... there are 2 viewing it now. Water is cloudy again because of the rain but not bad.

I'm going to move this to the buy-sell-trade forum... "housecleaning" move you see. I don't mind announcing sales... if it's helpful to others. Thanks for posting.

Yes you can. They have pits where you can build fires- if my memory serves me correctly. No burn bans.

March 17, 2006 Water Level--904.1--rising slowly Water Temperature--53 degrees Water Condition--stained Crappie---This has been a very good winter for crappie fishing all over Table Rock. The size of crappie has improved greatly over the previous few years. Crappie are being caught suspended in the tree lines south of the dock. Fish a jig or a live minnow 6 to 12 feet deep in 20 to 25 feet of water. Black bass are hitting crank baits on secondary points in the creeks. Look for chunk rock points to be most productive. Hard to say what this rain and more this week will do between now and this weekend. I doubt if many will be fishing down there this week because of the cold weather. The crappie won't go far though. Stop at the marina at Cricket and talk to Mark. He should be able to tell you what's going on- up to the minute. Marc- we look forward to your report when you return home!! Hope it's a good one!

If you get them- get smoke, chartruese, purple and electric blue. Then olive, pearl, motor oil and more smoke.

My parents attend first Baptist here in Branson. Do you know anything about lunch and dinner being served in Nixa for residents whos homes were destroyed or damaged? They are in charge of a couple of lunches this week. I think at the rec center? Mom said they (organizers of relief) are looking for more churches/organizations to help with meals. If anyone is interested, email me.

I just looked at the levels at Boxley today to see if the river had risen. With these rain patterns, we should start to see some normal spring flows.

Gentlemen, Everyone has done a great job helping those on the board with fishing questions on Table Rock as well as other lakes on OAF. I have encouraged guides with businesses to post on the board for just that reason- they know their stuff... all of them do. Posting information about their guide services is welcomed too--if offers a needed service. I know I'm speaking for everyone - thanks, guides and others, for caring enough and taking the time to post here.

I used to have images of them but they were on another server and I think it's gone. They come in 2.5 and 3 inch. They're shaped like a minnow with a thin curley tail. Come in dozens of colors. Made in Florida so they're not an ozarkian thing at all but they are hard to find for some reason. Not sure why others haven't tried to copy them- almost the same as a grub-curley tail but slimmer. Thread them thru the head/body on a jig head- simple.

http://intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage....ts&prodnav=none Doesn't look bad at all. It really is pretty acurate.

There can be only 5 viewing the cam at once so it could be busy. However, for some reason, some people are not able to view it. I wish I knew why. You might try again and if you keep having trouble, try another computer.

We have about 20 currently registered for the seminar so because of time and space constraints, we probably can't offer personal tying lessons. We do offer smaller fly tying classes every Tuesday night- Jeremy will be there tomorrow night so possibly he can carry the patterns over to next week.