Phil Lilley

OK- I set the limit to 50 per day. It wasn't allowing anyone to "like". Should work now.

I'll check the settings...

He catches them on stick baits- suspending. I'd guess RC Sticks?

They only show up if they're running either flood gates or sometimes when they're running 4 units for a long period of time. So- not very often.

I didn't know it had limits...

The "like" thing I just turned on. I thought it might be amusing.

From today - The walleye are 18.5 inches. Compare them with the crappie- those are big crappies!

A little... I was just curious about Firefox. Thanks

My understanding mostly on stick baits between K and Beaver Creek.

Just curious.... how many people block ads on ozarkanglers? I just updated Firefox and now it automatically blocks google ads. Didn't know if this was the case for everyone.

Thanks for the report - and appreciate you jumping right in and posting a fishing report.

Friday pics -

Duane, Cody and I put in at Rim Shoals about 9 am on Thursday. They were running minimum flow? Not sure. But we got above Red Bud Shoals pretty easy with Duane's Tracker. It's got a jet! Inboard. We wanted to throw jigs- and we did. Mostly 1/8th ounce, some 3/32nd ounce. Sculpin/ginger was the best in the morning. We ran quite a ways up river and started drifting. Was a little hard getting the fish started but they came around. Mostly rainbows with a few browns mixed in. Plus - a nice surprise - we started picking up cutthroats! Nice! No brookies though. We made one drift down to the shoals, then back up. More water! And junk in the water - grass and moss. So we ran up futher- almost to Cotter and the RR bridge. Water was lots clearer and fishable. Duane started throwing white and we followed cause we was catching more fish. More browns started showing up. Then I hooked a nice brown - about 20 inches. Ended the day with 9 cutts! Cool!! Not sure how many other fish we all caught. Over to Riley's, grilled salmon and deer back strap- then bed. Friday morning, I wanted to show Duane some new water. Schedule said they were going to run one unit till 11 am so we put in at the dam at 8:40 am. Boated up to the red signs and Duane caught a nice rainbow on his second cast. It's on! Nope- it's off. They shut the water off and it dropped out fast. No more fish- pulled out and headed to the confluence and Norfork. Decided to put the boat in at Norfork and run up in the tailwater till we saw wet spots on the bank. We didn't get far. Fished out to the White - nothing. But we did find a few there where the two came together. Pulled out again. Drove to Handicap Access and waded in. We were fishing there at the first shoal when a guy in a truck pulled in to the parking lot, milling around. I remember this place is known for break in's so we didn't go far. He left but we didn't change our location. Caught a few on Zebras and soft hackles. Back to Rim and headed back towards Cotter. Looked like they were running 150 mw again but wasn't sure. We threw white jigs and the trout liked them! Lots of browns- more than Thursday. At one point we caught 9 consecutive brown trout with a cutt thrown in. It was fun throwing to either wood or rock and see browns come out of dark places after our jigs. Ended the day at dusk. Back to Riley's to meet the boys. Had a great time meeting and visiting with guys from the forum. I think everyone had a good fishing day. Thanks for the good food!! Hope fishing was good today.

Just so everyone knows... I'm not putting down the White River. These are only observations from a 2-day trip there. I know fisheries go in cycles too. The White River is a mighty river in its own right. I wish Taney was more like it in structure.

I'm not sure what's going on with these images... but I think they're all there. Not sure of the order though... The last image is the smallest rainbow although there's another image of a rainbows caught below Fall Creek. I caught several there but only took the one photo.

While fishing the White River this past Thursday and Friday, I couldn't help but notice that most if not all the rainbows we were catching were fairly small and all silver - hardly no color. We threw marabou jigs of varied sizes and colors, fishing mostly between Cotter and Rim Shoals with either minimum flow or 100-150 mw of generation. While I didn't take any pictures of the rainbows we caught on the White, I did take these pictures this morning while fishing a jig on Lake Taneycomo. I drifted from the dam down to just below Fall Creek, a 3.5 mile stretch. They're running 25 mw of power with is 1/2 unit. I used an 1/8th ounce white jig, 1/8th ounce sculpin jig and a 3/32nd once sculpin/peach jig. Note- I made a short drift when I first got up there and caught maybe a dozen rainbows and one brown before deciding to make the long drift and take pics. I caught the smallmouth on the first cast. The second to the last rainbow was about 11 inches - the only rainbow under 12 inches I landed. I lost a couple of smaller rainbows at the boat. It's not so much the size but the color that struck me as odd. Why are Taney's rainbows so much colorful. Granted, it is the time of year when we see our rainbows color up so pretty - mostly because of the spawn. Our water is darker too more silt because Table Rock is turning over. The water on the White was much clearer. Now if you compare the rainbows you'd catch below BS Dam in their trophy area and Taney's, the White has bigger rainbows on average. But it seems, at least right now, Taney has better sized rainbows overall, throughout the lake/river system than the White, This really surprises me given the fact the White has had a minimum flow in place for a year now. I'd think their food population (bugs and forage fish) would be through the roof. That's another thing we noticed. Didn't see many if any forage fish on the White. Taney has tons of shiners all up and down the lake along the banks. That's what is visible. I know we have sculpin, but so does the White.

There may be a place at Rockaway that rents boats- might call the chamber there. Otherwise Scotty's is the closest.

Ok boys. Trying to plan the day. Hopefully everyone gets notifications on their phone. Griz will be here at Riley's about 8. Pete is here, he'll go with Griz and mike. What's everyone else doing? Should we wait on anyone else?

Quick report- Duane, Cody and I put in at Rim about 8:30 this morning. Rain stopped but cold and cloudy. Minimum flow. No one fishing. Duane has a Tracker 185 Sport Jet. We decided to see how it would do getting up past Red Bud Shoals - we did - then ran up almost to Cotter. Drifted back all the way to Red Bud throwing a variety of jigs and did fairly well. Dark jigs did the best. Ran back up and did it again. Did better. Ran back up but this time we met some water. Looked like the 150, 10,000 cfs they were supposed to run this morning. We ran on up to get past the junk that comes with the first wave, almost to the RR bridge. Drifted down to Red Bud again this time throwing white jigs and did better on bigger fish. Don't know numbers but had numerous browns, lots of rainbows and 9 cutthroats. Duane caught his grand slam.... brown, rainbow, cutt and a arctic brown. Pics when I get home tomorrow night.

Duane and I will be probably at rim access about 8. Float all day to lodge. We have room for one more. We will be wading part of the time.

We could just wade in at Rim all day - or till the water gets there and then float to the lodge. We'll be in Duane's jet - no prop.

Last minute advice - They're supposed to run 150 from 7-10 tomorrow - plan to start 8 at. Can we put in at the White Hole and drift with the generation down to ?... Can we make it all the way to the lodge? Or wait till the water is to Rim and float to the lodge which we did last year.

You might read through the posts on the Buffalo forum to start. There's already a lot of good information already shared. Then check out http://www.ozarkanglers.com/buffalo-river/.

Thanks for the report!!!