Phil Lilley

Yea- I forgot to edit it. Thanks

I love storms... miss seeing them on the horizon in Kansas growing up.

Well... the Doty's thought they had a head start on the field and I guess they did. First keeper brown in the live tank. 22-inches. But Sue Oldham out did everyone. She and her husband Larry were throwing white jigs up by Fall Creek when Sue hooked a big brown. 30 minutes later she landed it. They told us that the who fight should have been on video... it circled the boat 15 times, exclaimed Larry. One guy on the dock asked if she was prepared tackle wise for such a big fish. She said she was using 4 pound line, as always. So the answer was "of course". 28.25 inches, 18.5 inch girth, 12.84 pounds. Adipose fin was clipped. They will have a replica made and the trophy will be swimming shortly. Duane's brother's brown helped them take 2nd place and husband-wife team Alan and Teresa Utterback took third. Everybody has good quality rainbows. The weights reflect a 6-fish bag.

We had only 7 teams go out this morning for the benefit contest. But I think they're getting treated to some good trout fishing. We have a live tank for anglers to bring in big trout they catch, to hold and rest until weigh in. We have had 2 keeper browns brought in, so far. Weigh in is at 2 p.m..

Duane caught this one this morning... trout were busting shad between Cooper and our dock from 6 to 6:30 am.

Lots of reports of trout chasing shad in the trophy area. I fished from 1-3:30 today, bright sun, white 3/32nd oz jigs and caught a dozen with these nice rainbows and one brown. There are only 3 trout total in 7 images.

I've been using a GoPro 4 for a while... it has it's issues but has worked pretty well. But I'm looking to upgrade, mainly for the WiFi and the ability to upload video files directly to cloud based storage. GoPro offers that... but reviews for the GoPro 6 aren't that good. So... looking for suggestions. Thanks

Yes it was a trip!

What did she change?

Plate. Melt butter. Sprinkle season salt and lemon pepper. Trout filets. Dip both sides in butter. Add more spice- to taste. Fill the plate. Micro for 2.5 minutes.

Camera angle

I think Jim is being facetious...

Centrocercus - Sage Grouse. I had to look it up. Interesting screen name.

All people are different. Different tastes, different values, different likes. Some like to release all fish, some like to keep a few, some like to keep their limit, some like to keep as many as they can. Some like to see others do as they do... that's when you see arguments. Why can't everybody think the same way??? Because it's just not so. I don't necessarily like crappie. It's a texture thing. I like white bass, for the same reason. I probably would like a largemouth or spot, for the same reason. Firm meat. But then again, it's all in the way you cook it. I've met more people who say they HATE fish because the times they've tried it - whoever prepared it should be put in fish-cook-timeout. I've won more people over to eating fish by my microwave trout recipe. So we can agree to disagree. I know, and everyone else should too, understand keeping some fish will draw arguments... but at least on this fishing board, it will remain civil.

Just got back in. Working a variety of jigs from well below FC to Trout Hollow and only landed 6 rainbows, had 4 more on. No best colors - sculpin/ginger and sculpin/peach I guess got more bites. White - 0 High sun though... Babler said 6-8 am was best bite.

Babler said he saw smallmouth busting on shad this morning between Fall and Short Creek... big smallies. May be time to swim a swimming minnow up there.

The early morning bite hasn't been that good. Most of the guides have been saying it starts after 8 am, after the sun gets up a bit... which doesn't make any sense. Come by and say hi if you get a chance!

We'd love to have more posts on the Greer's Ferry forum... hard to get a new one going! Thanks for posting!

2 units tonight... real slow water. May be you need to readjust again before you go to bed

I think it was a very good year for crappie on TR - and other places. The ones I got were very nice, not many shorts at all.

I knew as soon as I posted this, things would change. Duane just texted me and said they just closed the flood gates at Table Rock Dam.

We have seen 15,000 cubic feet per second water release since last Friday evening after a more-than-expected rain event last week. The Beaver Lake area received the most rain, up to 6 inches, while our area averaged 2.5 inches. The forecast called for about an inch of rain. Beaver Lake's level was already high so this rain put it up close to their flood pool which is 1130 feet. A combination of spill gates and turbine release kept the level in check while at Table Rock Dam, water released increased to move water through the system. Now that we've had a full week of release, lake levels have slowly dropped to moderate levels, just not low enough to see a reduction in release. Turbines at both Beaver and Table Rock facilities are not being used, one at both places. Spill gates are open to make up for turbine release, 5 gates opened one foot at Table Rock. Beaver gates are now closed and they are only running one unit 5 or 6 hour a day. Beaver's level is now at 1128.38 feet. Table Rock is at 916.53 feet and dropping almost 6 inches a day. My flow forecast for Taneycomo is - I think they'll shut the gates down within the next 24 hours and run 3 units full for a while. Our trout in Taneycomo have seen a lot of shad and other forage fish come over the spill gates the last 7 days. We're catching trout that have big bellies, as well as seeing bass, crappie and walleye below the dam. White jigs, spoons, crank baits and shad flies are all working very good... but we're seeing spells when the fishing is slow. In the past when we've seen a "shad hatch", fish fill up on shad so we throw dark jigs at them and they seem to like it. So brown, sculpin, olive and black all have worked well when the fish aren't hitting white or white and gray. The white bite has been good all the way down to Short Creek, it's been reported. They're also doing well drifting #10 and #12 gray scuds on the bottom too. In year's past, we've seen our scud population explode during these high water events so this may be occurring. It's hard writing a fishing report when you know in a few hours water conditions will change, thus changing how this report should be written... but I believe drifting bait on the bottom from Fall Creek down will become a lot easier and successful once the water slows down. I think minnows will be the hot bait too, along with night crawlers. There's a lot of rainbows in the lake right now. The Missouri Department of Conservation haven't slowed stocking down because of the high water and catch and keep rates have been low. I think I'll wait and add to this report in a couple of days because of the change that's coming. I'll have a much better idea what the fish are doing and the best way to catch them. View full article