Phil Lilley

In the N2N program, we are using food as a tool to attempt to influence some people's life in a positive way. The food is a draw... getting them out of the house and making contact in a positive and nonthreatening way. We don't make any judgements to who gets food or who does not -- that's an impossible task with the numbers we see. In most of today's apartment complexes, we don't see the "neighborhood aspect" that we used to see in our neighborhoods 40 years ago. In the summer, we accommodate hamburger cookouts to rekindle that neighborhood atmosphere.

One more thing... there's a couple of ways to look at giving people some food. One is that it gives families food that they don't have to buy which saves them money to pay bills. Another is, now a days, kids aren't getting fed at home. What food they get is at school. Two stories here in Taney County in the past month! First, a 11 year old was suspended from an area school. He said, crying, "I can't miss school because it's the only place I eat. There's no food in the house." We found out and got them food. Another- an area school's athletes informed their coaches that they didn't have food at home and they were hungry all the time. Now we provide food for a small pantry in the coach's office. It's crazy to see how many kids go without food at home. And what food they have is never cooked or prepared... they fend for themselves.

I used to be a care coach, which is the person that, I wouldn’t call it interview, but ask questions of the people coming in for food. They do have to prove residency of Taney county or Stone county but that’s the only criteria to receive food. For reporting and statistics that we are required to gather to receive federally assisted commodities, we ask if they receive any entitlements or assistance from local, state or federal agencies. Then we ask the personal questions like, how are they doing, are they working, do they need any help with job training or Any medical needs, any other issues at home that we could help with such as childcare or even if there is any abuse in the home. We also ask if they need any prayer or if we could pray with them. We also ask if they need any special items like diapers, detergent, toiletries, any special dietary items. If we have it, we will give it to them. They can come in to one of our distribution centers which are open five days a week here in Branson and Forsyth and receive four days of food per month. They could also go to one of our outreaches which are going on throughout the month at different locations and receive another four days of food. These outreaches are called neighbor2neighbor outreach, where we partner with organizations and churches to deliver food to apartment complexes, mobile home, parks, and parking lots. For instance, if a church is a partner, they provide financial assistance to help with the food, then provide volunteers to give out the food at the event. This develops relationships since it’s done once a month where people can help people that need help basically. We have about 45 neighbor 2 neighbor outreaches per month on top of our normal distribution points. We are funded by private individuals, businesses, churches, Civic organizations, senior county tax board, county government, city government, fundraisers and grants.

As many of you know, CAM (Christian Action Ministries) is the food pantry for Taney and Stone Counties. We distribute food to almost 6500 residents each month through over 60 outreaches. And we do it with a shoestring staff of 7 people, half are part time. Most of the work is done by volunteers. Here's an interesting statistic - 62% of the people we give food to have at least one job. Many have 2 and 3 jobs. Some are retired and on a fixed income. Some are on disability. Some are deadbeats and don't deserve free food but that percentage is small. Here's your chance to help with this ministry, and give back for the cost of running this forum. I don't care how much you give - but you should give something. Thank you! https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E358532&id=54&fbclid=IwAR1hntS0fZiaqp5JwaxnXROaTH4gd5Qzc9Vn0exvjtPhG-_XfP-sqPGrxL0 https://mailchi.mp/b26147c0c73b/a-record-breaking-year-for-christian-action-ministries?e=1213934769

https://mdc.mo.gov/trees-plants/diseases-pests/periodical-cicadas Hopefully it will be a fun time in May and June!

17 and 18 are open. They are also upstairs but they have an adjoining deck. 17 is a 4 bedroom and 18 is a 3 br. If you get enough guys, you could take both and share the deck.

Some have called and made reservations. For those who want to share a room, I could reserve a big unit and you guys could speak up and take a bed. Say, unit 25. It has 4 bedrooms/ 2 bathrooms, 9 beds. Big living room. It is upstairs.

It looks like TR is turning over. Taney's water has turned a darkish brown with silt which is another indicator. We usually get a bump in trout activity but I doubt if we see much this year. I just don't think we've had a bad DO problem this fall. Fishing hasn't been bad at all. But good DO sure doesn't hurt. The Corp now can run 4 units full without injecting so we may see some big flows. That wouldn't be a bad thing. Clean the lake out a bit.

I have no idea where we're going. May be Wildcat. I know the water pretty well there. I'll put some in the mail to Riley's tomorrow.

I can do 50% off rooms, boats and stall rentals those days for the group. I can't commit to 50% discount if this continues to be an annual event but there will always be some discount to an OAF event here.

Blake and I are planning on being there Saturday for a day trip. Not sure what we're bringing as far as a boat - probably one of our jon boats with a prop. If you've watched One Cast lately, we've made a football jig / sculpin jig that we've done fairly well on and we're wanting to try it on the White. Give me your addresses if you want us to mail you a couple to try out this weekend.

https://lilleyslanding.com/Availability/avail_0124.htm

I could do something the last weekend - 1/26-27. We usually don't fill up that weekend.

There are 3 ingredients to this dubbing - Dog Hair (gray Shih Tzu), Gray Antron and gray Star Bright

by Blake Wilson The month of November is at its end. It has brought us cooler weather, and with that, more generation. On Lake Taneycomo these last few weeks, typically 50 to 75% of most days saw some type of flow. Generally only a few hours in the daylight experienced the water off. There were even a few days last week with some very slow flow, as little as five megawatts at 1,200 cubic feet per second. It was quite interesting. Phil's theory is that something broke, and the U.S.Corps of Army Engineers was not able to shut a turbine completely down. This happened a couple of years ago. But everything is back to normal. Fishing has been above par for me in terms of numbers of trout, and I've heard the same from other anglers. With flowing water it is easier to get a bite and catch more fish. Nathan Bolerjack, marketing manager here at Lilleys, reported 22 trophies were caught and released in November, about average compared to past years for the month. On the live bait side of the spectrum, the night crawler reigns supreme. There are periods of the year our trout lose their appetite for worms for whatever reason, but for the most part, they are the go-to bait for big and little trout. Use four-pound line, #8 short shank bait holder hook and a small split shot to get the worm down to the bottom. Inject the worm with a little air using a hypodermic needle to float it off the bottom or use a floating jig head. If the water is running, use a half crawler, same rig or drift rig, and drift it on the bottom. On the artificial side of the spectrum, a variety of things have been working. During generation, especially with two or more units, drifting a scud and egg on a drift rig has been great through the trophy area clear down to Short Creek. The egg fly seems to be more productive early in the morning than the scud does better later in the day. I have been primarily using a size 14 in gray, tan, olive or crystal gray colors. The egg of choice has been the eggstacy orange, or a 6mm orange bead pegged on the line 2-3 inches above a scud fly. When the water is moving slower, one unit or less, or when it's off completely, a number of lures and flies used under a float are working. Below the trophy area, the pink worm under a float is good before the sun gets up over the water. Use four-pound line and fish it four- to seven-feet deep. Black or tan micro jigs, as well as the megaworm, under a float are producing trout. You might consider going to two-pound line if you're not getting bit, especially on very still and sunny days. Captain Brett Rader has been very successful with his softshell scuds, his coral megaworm variation and a white micro jig. Here at Lilleys' Landing, we are currently in production of a new sculpin jig style streamer. It's a football style jig tied as a sculpin using rabbit fur strips. The football jig construction allows the jig to be retrieved hook up so it can be hopped or drug on the bottom without getting snagged on the rocks. In bass fishing, this jig is used to imitate crawfish. It's tied using the same colors we offer now in our fly section, namely the Leonard Keeney sculpin. The main difference is the football- shaped head is poured lead like a jig. It weighs much more than the Keeney sculpin and can be thrown using spin cast equipment. If you watch One Cast, you've seen us using this jig quite a bit lately, experimenting with the best ways to use it. Darin Schildknecht, our fly shop manager, told me that his first time fishing the jig was the most fun he's had fishing for six years! So far the jig has worked best in fairly shallow water where trout are actively feeding, worked about the same as you would fly fishing and stripping a sculpin fly. This is gravel flats in no more than three to four feet of water. Work it using quick, darting and fast movements, stopping and letting it lie on the bottom a few seconds. The Branson Landing area is holding quite a few trout including a lot of brown trout. The Missouri Department of Conservation stocked about 4,000 browns in early November below the Landing, and they've seemed to have found a home in that area. These aren't the normal stocker size of 9 to 11 inches. These actually are a year older and average 14 to 18 inches in length. They're chasing lures like spoons, spinners and jerk baits, as well as the other baits like worms and Powerbait. If you fish this area, stick to the deep side away from the Landing and fish Power Eggs, worms and the pink worm under a float. Trolling lures should also work well down there. View full article

I haven't read all this... but I will comment on Al's last post. I praise God for who He is... I thank Him In all things, good and bad. I trust Him regardless of my circumstances. I trust Him to give me the strength to go through whatever evil may come on me or people around me. And if it kills me, I trust Him for forgiving me for all the bad things I've done. And that's only through what Jesus did on the cross. You can judge a god or a religion by how people live, talk and act but you'd be so misguided. You can't judge the God of the universe by imperfect people. You have to deal with Him personally, just like you'll have to deal with Him face to face someday.

I believe that's the weekend of a tournament at Trout Hollow. Most of the guys here will be participating. I will not. But I can't confirm at this time. If I come it'll be just a day trip most likely. So don't count me in for a bed. Thanks guys.

So the dates are December 15-16, right?

What are the dates?

The White River minimum flow is 629 cfs.

Gray Shih Tzu dog - Peppy. It was Rolan's dog. He cuts the hair to 1/2 inch pieces and mixes it with gray antron and ??? another dubbing. I've asked Rolan.

This is interesting too. Note the DO level on the 16th and beyond. It doesn't drop below 4 ppm. I asked Shane about it. He said TR couldn't have turned because it hasn't been cold enough and TR's surface temp is still in the low 60's. But he also admitted this reading is very strange. I noted also that our water is still pretty clear - hasn't silted up yet. That's another indicator that TR turns. Overall, this fall season has been a pretty good year in regards to water quality and fish bite/fight. We've had alot worse for sure.

Beat me to the post... I've never seen it. It's a minimum flow rate they tested back in the 90's. They said at the time that this flow would be too hard on the turbine blades to maintain... but they've ran 35 mw alot since them which is pretty low flow. 5 mw is crazy. I fished the trophy area below Lookout yesterday and the flow seemed to be more than I would expect at 5 mw.

We're blessed with some nice trout.