Phil Lilley

It did... catching off the dock has been poor all summer. Not sure why. Constant running water doesn't help but people are catching fish drifting by in boats. It is frustrating.

Was it 13 inches? What do they have to be, 12 inches? His cameraman needs to get his heart checked...

Perfect place. Thanks for sharing.

Like the rainbow record triploids?

Shane reported back to me. Doesn't look like Morgan's brown could be a triploid- it must have had a very small adipose fin. A brown stocked in 2013 could not have grown that big that quick. He showed me a graph of the findings from their survey last week of the triploid browns they found. Unless it was a freak of nature, it's not a triploid.

One of those bass in the net looks like a meanmouth... is it?

Yea- trying to hold the fish, worry about it flopping and hurting itself, and holding the net below it so it wouldn't fall in the boat or in the water... I wasn't thinking about smiling. Triploid is a fish that is sterile. They treat the eggs by holding them in hot water for a short time. The idea is that these fish will grow faster since they won't go through a spawning period. We didn't inspect the fish when we had it... we noticed in the pictures that the adipose fin was gone. MDC marks triploids by clipping this fin. Shane Bush said the first year they're stocked triploids (recently) was May, 2013 so if this fish is a triploid and the fin was clipped, its growth rate would be nearly impossible. To grow from 10.5 inches to 24.5 inches in 18 months... may be the fish just lost or didn't have a adipose fin for some reason.

Only browns.

This brown is a triploid. The adipose fin is clipped.

For those who don't want to watch the video...

10.5 pounds. 24.5 x17 inches. Caught on #14 grey scud, 2 lb Vanish.

Tom Burckhardt with a nice brown just brought in. Not weighed yet. Probably 22 inches caught on a jig down lake. He's not giving out location just yet...

23 boats started this morning at 8 am here on Taneycomo. Looks like the rain is going to miss us. We'll see what kind of fish come in at the weigh in - 2 pm.

I've sent in trouble tickets on various issues, one is the URL image paste.

Correction - Kelly's son's name is Steven. Here's some fish pics.

Just got off the lake. Reports have been slow fishing for most last couple of days. Guides have been catching fish on white or pink San Juan worms.... big ones.... in the trophy area. Also drifting #12 gray scuds. That's the best report I have. I just got off the lake. They're only running 2 units so the drift is nice and slow. Wanted to throw a lighter jig with 2 pound like on the inside bank down from Fall Creek. Felt like I'd tear them up - cloudy no wind. Not so. Few light bites and fewer trout. Only a couple down closer to Short Creek on a sculpin/ginger/ brown head 3/32nd oz jig but they were good ones. One 14 and one about 17 inches. Boated back up to almost Lookout and tried it up there. Same luck. Caught a couple decent rainbows. Switched to 1/8th oz though and did better with the 2 up there and another nice 18-19 inch rainbow below Fall Creek. Not good numbers but the size was amazing. One 14-inch brown to finish just above Short Creek. Kelly Stammer and his son Bryan are out throwing big stick baits for big trout. Kelly broke off a big fish this morning using 12-pound line. Said he lost another big brown this afternoon. They're not doing too bad drifting night crawlers from our place down to the bridges. I'm still doing pretty good throwing hoppers, beetles and ants along the banks. Medium size hoppers, black beetles and either black or brown ants. Saw quite a few rises this afternoon while out. Here's a little video report we did yesterday. Steve Dickey shares how he's been catching trout....

To start, I deleted most of the blogs here back to 2007. Most of these blogs were fishing reports--you can see them on the forum. The ones I left are pretty cool, at least for me, reading about my thoughts and plans back 8+ years ago. I have a blog site http://phillilley.com where I've done a fair to poor job of keeping it current. Some of it is redundant- the fishing reports and videos--but the devotion part is new and I've tried to add to it when I have time to sit and type what I'm studying. I'm probably not going to post any original entries here... just not enough time to blog what I want. This new forum format, blog section, is pretty cool. It does lack the option to post html-base posts with images which is disappointing. But we'll see how it goes.