Phil Lilley

I will move it. Best way I think is to PM others who might be interested that may not be on the board right now. I just PM'ed Cotterboy and emailed another friend who may be interested.

I have several articles on jig fishing here - http://www.ozarkanglers.com/lake-taneycomo/spin-fishing/ And videos on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/phillilley search jig fishing Most effective- depends totally on conditions.

I just posted the buddy special. Ask if you have any questions. Thanks

For the past 10 years or so, we've been offering anglers a way to come down and fish during the week without spending a ton of money on lodging. So here's the deal: Come and stay a Sunday - Thursday night, 1 to 3 people, in a unit we chose (depending on openings) for $29 per night. The stay CANNOT be apart of a weekend stay (Friday and/or Saturday). 2-night minimum. In exchange, each person in the party (unless is a husband and wife) writes a fishing report (pictures preferred) and email it to me or post it on the forum with in 24 hours of leaving the resort. Needs to be timely. The report should be thorough, worth the fairly large discount given on the room (a single off lake unit here is $64 per night). There are dates/weeks that this special is excluded -- November 28th-29th (Thanksgiving) and December 25- January 1. The special is good through February.

Hey we have rooms open this weekend and the weather looks like it's going to stay nice all week. If you're interested, send me a PM for a special, last minute reservation quote! I think our singles are booked but can reduce rates for 1 to 2 people. Remember- fishing buddy special in effect, weekends for $29 per night. I'll have to dig the special up and post it.

I didn't start watching till second half. I know a game (that game) isn't won or lost on one call... I think KC has a good chance to beat Denver in KC in 2 weeks. They did look good. Get that first loss out of the way. The call- camera angle did not show definitively that the ball crossed the 40. I was very surprised they reversed it. It "looked like it may have" but that's not enough to reverse a call, according to their rules. If it had happened to Denver, I would have said the same thing - bad call.

Horrible reversal call on out of bounds call. Not indisputable. Bad camera angle. Game over.

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I went out again this evening. Wind was perfect- perfect chop on the water. Fished the east bank starting at the bottom of the Narrows for about 200 yards. They eat up a 1/125th ounce brown jig with an orange head, 3 to 4 feet deep. Wind stopped, so did the bite. No midge bite tonight- period. Did throw a 1/16th ounce sculpin/ginger jig and caught a couple before it got dark. Again, fish are livelier than they have been. Good sign.

The O2 is funny right now. The O2 is running between 1 and 6 ppm. Compare to when they're running water - The O2 is rising and so is the temperature. O2 rising isn't unusual but the temperature should be rising too if the lake is close to turning. I asked Clint, hatchery manager, and he said the same thing - weird. Table appears to be close to turning. One more good cold front should do it (my guess). It's early but no one should complain!! I fished around noon and the trout seemed to be more full of energy than past days. Good sign.

Looking forward to it!

The leaves have all fallen and we've had our first hard freeze. Yep . . . winter is right around the corner! I believe some great trout fishing is around the corner too here on Taneycomo. Generation has slowed to a crawl. They are running almost 2 units early in the morning but it's been off by 10 a.m.. It has stayed off the rest of the day with a bump after dark for less than 2 hours. My guess this will be the weekday pattern for a while and probably less generation, if any at all, on weekends. Trout fishing has been pretty good for most people going out in boats but dock fishing has been only fair. Most take most of the day to get their limit of 4 trout off the dock and they're catching rainbows on a variety of Power Bait and night crawlers. Our water is not real clear so 4 pound line is ok but 2 pound is better. That goes for the whole lake, not just off the dock. We've had some wind which is good. Choppy conditions are always good for fish biting. Some have done well going down lake from the resort and fishing a pink Trout Magnet under a float 5 feet deep. Also putting a Gulp pink egg on a small jig head hook and fishing it 5 feet deep under a float. A lot of people are boating up to the mouth of Fall Creek and fishing either night crawlers or Power Bait and catching quite a few rainbows. The few times I've been out the last couple of weeks, I've notice a lot of boats cheating past the line and using bait in the restricted area. Now I really don't know how much of a stickler our agents are on the line at Fall Creek but a $150 ticket isn't worth 50 feet I wouldn't think. Those trout just above the line aren't any bigger than the ones just below the line. I've heard there's a lot of anglers mistaken where exactly Fall Creek comes in to the lake. I enters Taneycomo from the west or right side if you're looking upstream from Fall Creek's dock. There's a slew that looks like a creek on the left side and further up lake from Fall Creek which some boaters think is Fall Creek. That could be an expensive assumption. The mouth of Fall Creek is marked by a big sign put there my the Missouri Department of Conservation identifying the bottom boundary of the restricted area. Above Fall Creek, if you get up there when the water is running early in the morning, throw a 3/32nd ounce white jig from the dam down to the MDC boat ramp. There are still a few big browns up there. Also work a medium stick bait like a Rapala or Rouge. Also drifted an egg fly on the bottom. These trout are seeing quite a few eggs being laid by browns and now rainbows are starting to spawn. When the water stops, fish a jig and float, 2 pound line and fish it 4 to 6 feet deep, depending on how deep the water is you're fishing. I got out this afternoon for a couple of hours. Hardly anyone else on the lake today. Boated up past Fall Creek, past the Narrows and started there. I wanted to try a lot of things to see what they likes. I started with darker colors jigs under a float, 6x tippet. They didn't want any of it. So I put on a brown with an orange head jig and they liked it. Switched to a black/brown, black head and nothing. Then sculpin/ginger, brown head and they liked it. A pattern was emerging--they wanted something with a light or bright color. Ginger, sculpin/peach even pink was hot. There was a fairly good chop on the water most of the time but when the wind died so did the bite. I caught most of my fish below the Narrows in the deeper water down closer to where the condos start. Trout were midging on the east or shallow bank there so after catching my last jig rainbow, I tied on a #16 Ugly Midge (green body) and a palsa float only 12 inches from the fly and started working those feeding rainbows. I had great action for the next 30 minutes. I didn't want to change flies because as soon as I casted the zebra in close to a rise, the float would take off and I hooked another rainbow. These trout were quite a bit bigger than the ones I was getting on the jig out in the deeper water too. But nothing over 14 inches. This is the bank I caught them on zebra midges. It's always a great bank because there's deep water close to this shallow gravel bar. Rainbows come up on it and eat both scuds and midges. I took pictures of the rainbows I caught on a different colored jigs and then a few on the midge. it's always hard to stop and take time to take pictures when the fishing is as good as it was this evening. I have heard fishing below the dam, wading and fly fishing, has been very good. Like I said, there are still a few browns up there but the spawning rainbows are starting to show up in good numbers and very big in weight too. I was told they're keying in on egg flies real well. No weight, just let them sink slowly and let them drift in the slow current or if there's current, add just a tiny split shot. Around the outlets of course is the hottest but very hard to not snag fish because they're just so many stacked in on top of one another (I am talked about trout but anglers are stacked up in the outlets too).

There's a guy west of WalMart super center in Ozark. That's the closest I know of. I'd leave it hang before I'd put it in a cooler. Skin on.

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So you've made reservations? Do we have enough bedrooms, beds? I think we have enough food and boats. What is the room rate?

Our guides supply all gear if that's of interest. We also rent fly rods and can help with basic flies and gear.

I was just going to bring a few smoked chickens. Can bring more if necessary. Bringing a jon. Can fish me and 2 more. Fly or spin- don't care. I'll probably get there first thing Friday morning and fish all day. Saturday, I'll have to pull out about 10 am and head home. Have friends in from OK that I need to spend time with Saturday.

Flat not fishing. Too many projects. Had 2 guys come in the shop yesterday and said they are "slaying them" on egg pattern below the dam. Numerous 20+ rainbows. I do need to get up there... someday. And I'm 5 miles away.

So it's the 13-14th. Who's in charge? What's the plan? Where are we staying? Like I said, I'll bring a jon boat if needed. Will bring the meat for Friday night's meal.

Great report- thanks.

I HAD to post this on OA... first food related post ever I think except for may be mushrooms. http://www.ozarkanglers.com/blog/2013/11/09/grilled-teal/ This adds a whole new dimension to this site. Excellent post!! I love it! Thanks!!!

I could make it Friday the 13th and probably hang around for Saturday morning fishing. Sounds like the weekend of the 13-14 is better for most.

Haven't heard anything. They won't start running water hard till the lake turns over. After it turns, the Corp won't have to spend big bucks to inject o2 in the tailwater water when releasing. They'll be able to run at their hearts content.

A couple of winters ago, i organized a few fishing seminars/talks in Springfield- at the MDC Nature's Center. We covered Table Rock, Roaring River, Al Agnew talked on smallmouth fishing, North Fork of the White, the Elevenpoint... I'm wanting to host more this winter. Going to cover Table Rock with several talks because I think that's the main draw in this area. Probably cover Taneycomo. I'd like to hear from you all what you think I should do. I'm thinking Stockton, Montauk (upper Current), may be the Buffalo. Floating the James River, Elk River. A talk about floating and camping Missouri's rivers. My knowledge of people to speak on these subjects is limited so I need help in that area. I am not limiting these talks to just Springfield although it is centrally located in SW Missouri.

Personally I can do Friday the 13th, not the 14th. I can do the weekend of the 6-7th. I can bring a jon boat with a 25 hp motor to use.