Phil Lilley

Pulling baskets means... you're cheating? Not sure what the term means. Most tournaments option a polygraph at the end of the contest. That should deter any cheating I'd think. We give one every few years just to put the fear in those who may think about it.

Level correction... 657. I had to go check but I thought that was a little high.

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They're 18 feet long. I have one that's 20 feet long. They do handle well on the lake. See you in the morning.

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Come on down and fish off our dock! Come in and say howdy.

What on? Where'd you fish? I need to get down and fish with you and take some good pics.

He should be leaving shortly. I guess he's trying to get in to his "fishing shape". BTW, Duane, Jim and Phyliss were through Tuesday and Wednesday. They're on their way to Seattle as I type with a 12 passenger van pulling a 25 ft boat/cruiser inboard for taking over the lake. They bought a nice raft from Babler and picked up a 115 head Yamaha in Spokane. Talk about loaded down!! I hope they make it without a lot of problems.

Great idea. I'll pass around your links. Do you have a site for your business yet?

I guess you know Grant Woods. He's big in land management.

Bite was slow for us yesterday too. But we didn't venture far from the resort area. When there's a generation change like this -- running water for eons and then they shut it down -- the trout seem to go into a state of shock for a day or so. Some don't but most do- for me anyhow. MDC stocked through here yesterday. Rainbows seems to be a little smaller than average but not dinks. They were all over the surface last evening.

Duane- How did you do? They had the water off until mid afternoon yesterday and scheduled again for today. This may be a new generation pattern that may stay with us for a while. If anyone gets out in the am and wades below the dam, a report would be appreciated.

Steven.... I had no idea! Are you coming up for your little sister's graduation Sunday?

Pumpkin Sculpin could be sculpin and orange marabou combo or is it one particular color...

You're talking about last week, right?

Went out for an hour this morning from 7:30 - 8:30 before my workout. Pushed out again and worked my sculpin 1/8th oz jig off the bottom but worked more of the middle of the lake than the bluff side. Hunting for something besides little, pesky rainbows. Down in front of Cooper Creek I hung something heavy - thought, "Here's my brown". Stayed down. Worked him up and saw it was a smallie. He was losing his breakfast on the way in but still had some of it in his mouth as I boated him. It was the remains of 2 sculpin. These guys, along with browns and I bet rainbows are having a field day on the abundance of sculpin we have in the lake. Smallmouth are braving the 40 degree water for the food. Pretty cool. When I have time I want to fish even further down. Plus I have a theory - I need to prove it out and then I'll report back. My camera was foggy and I didn't know it. 18 inches, solid.

That right there is why I do this... thanks for sharing!

The third stop on the 2010 qualifying team tournament series was on Tablerock Lake. Congratulations goes to the winning team of Tim Sainato and Steven Redford. They brought in a bag of 5 fish weighing 18.03 pounds. Our second place winners James and Donna Gilzow weighed in 5 fish totaling 16.05 pounds. CENTRAL PRO-AM ASSOCIATION 2010 TABLEROCK LAKE TEAM TOURNAMENT May 2, 2010 FINAL STANDINGS PL BOATER NON BOATER # FISH WEIGHT $ AMOUNT I TIM SAINATO STEVEN REDFORD 5 18.03 $ 3,600.00 2 JAMES GILZOW DONNA GILZOW 5 16.05 $ 2,000.00 3 RAND WOODS CHRIS WOLCOTT 5 16.03 $ 1,250.00 4 RICK LAPOINT GARY SHARTZER 5 15.97 $ 1,100.00 5 WES ENDICOTT GREG WOOD 5 15.44 $ 900.00 6 GREG RYAN JAMES WATSON 5 15.27 $ 750.00 7 GREG DISHMAN STEVE ANDERSON 5 14.53 $ 700.00 8 SHANE PORTER ROB WILLIAMS 5 14.52 $ 600.00 9 JIM LOVAN ROGER MHOON 5 14.24 $ 500.00 10 RONNIE KANE CASEY SCANLON 5 14.19 $ 450.00 11 RICK EMITT JAMIE FISHER 5 14.15 $ 300.00 12 JACK STACK DICK COLLIER 5 14.06 $ 250.00 13 (t) SCOTT PAULEY GAYLE JULIAN 5 14.02 13 (t) STEVE PEARSON DANIEL MCKINNEY 5 14.02 15 (t) RYAN COPELAND DUSTIN LEE 5 13.98 15(t) SCOTT BOAZ STEVE RIDER 5 13.98 17 GARY BRACH SONNY MOORE 5 13.95 18 (t) ROBBIE DODSON BROOKLYN DODSON 5 13.80 18 (t) DAVE DONHAM 5 13.80 20 DAVID BARKER BILLY BIRD 5 13.74 21 WESLEY ROGERS HENRY MAGAFFEE 5 13.50 22 RICK SCARBERRY JERRY WATSON 5 13.46 23 DAN MCGENNIS STEVE LACKMAN 5 13.43 24 ROBERT ROBBINS ZACH ROBBINS 5 13.26 25 LUPE GARCIA JOEY PENZO 5 12.84 26 JD DUDLEY JERRY DUDLEY 5 12.83 27 MAX ATKINSON KENNY GIPSON 5 12.50 28 LARRY HURLEY KENNETH GARRISON 5 12.48 29 KELLY POWER MARK WEISE JR 5 12.42 30 MARK SANDERS BOBBY COMSTOCK 5 12.17 31 TED WISE DAVE LETOURNEAU 5 12.11 32 TRAVIS FOX JEREMY MABRY 5 12.03 33 BILL CHESTER SAM SMITH 5 11.96 34 SCOTT BERRY SUTTON BERRY 5 11.88 35 SHANE PIERCE FLYNT PIERCE 5 11.50 36 JASON WALKER ERIC COOPER 5 11.31 37 MARTY CONRAD ROBERT DODSON 5 11.23 38 MIKE MILLS DANNY COLLIER 5 11.22 39 MIKE LUCAS RANDALL RAGAR 5 11.19 40 DWAYNE LUBY ROY DALE 5 10.74 41 LARRY WALKER JARED GOBEL 5 10.57 42 BOBBY SULLIVAN ROGER MATTHEWS (alt) 4 10.29 43 CRAIG WARREN SCOTT STALLINGS 5 10.17 44 JASON MITCHELL MARK BARIOLA 4 9.52 45 RON WEISS LARRY DICKEY 3 9.35 46 SCOTT BURK JOHN JACKSON 4 8.69 47 MIKE WEBB STEVE BOILLOT 3 8.21 48 MARK SHELTON TONY SUTTERFIELD 3 7.89 49 JE VAN NATTA TROY ELDER 2 7.54 50 MIKE “COWBOY” FOREE MIKE MUELLER 2 5.33 51 LARRY “DOC” SEGER JEFF MC CLINTOCK 2 4.90 52 GUY LINDSTROM ELIJAH PAULSON 1 3.78 53 BOB RICHARDSON LYNN LUTHER 1 3.14 54 ROB RIXFORD BOB WILSON 1 2.96 55 CHRIS HUGHES DARRIN MORRISON 0 0.00 56 GREG WILMOTH KATHY GARRISON 0 0.00 57 JOHN HALEY JASON LINDSTROM 2 0.00 58 R. ADAM FALL BOB FALL 0 0.00 59 DON DREILING JOHN BULLOCK 0 0.00 60 BILL STUEVER RAY STANGER 0 0.00 61 BRAD CAREY MATT JONES (alt) 0 0.00 62 TROY GREGG HEATH BARNES 0 0.00 BIG BASS Gilzow/Gilzow 6.73 $ 780.00 2ND BIG BASS Endicott/Wood 6.05 $ 420.00

<p><img src="http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/images/2010/4-30aa-250.jpg" width="250" height="188" hspace="4" vspace="4" align="right">Sitting here watching the Cardinals beat the Reds (again), I thought I’d jot down a fishing report for our lake, Taneycomo.&nbsp; Although very little has changed since my last report, I feel the need to catch everyone up on what’s going on.</p> <p>Generation patterns have not changed.&nbsp; Dam operators are still running less than one unit at 20-35 megawatts of power all day and all night.&nbsp; Still don’t know why—Table Rock rose a little bit after some rains but not enough to be affected. The generation is still aggravating anglers who want to wade, but fishing from a boat is another story.&nbsp; Then it’s nice to have slow current when fishing, no matter how you like to fish.&nbsp; I think the fish like it, too.</p> <p>In my last report, I stated that our fishing was the best I had ever seen it – and it still is!&nbsp; Now catching these nicer trout takes more than fishing with Power Bait. Not that there’s anything wrong with fishing Power Bait, but you just don’t catch the bigger rainbows, on average, as you do with night crawlers, minnows or jigs.</p> <p><img src="http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/images/2010/4-30c-250.jpg" width="250" height="190" hspace="4" vspace="4" align="left">To qualify this statement:&nbsp; Big trout don’t bite all the time . . . and they don’t bite every day. Guide Bill Babler may take two trips on two successive days.&nbsp; The first day his clients catch large rainbows in the trophy area.&nbsp; The next day they fish the same way under basically the same conditions, but they only catch small rainbows.&nbsp; I’ve seen this play out many times and so do all who fish for more than one day in a row.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; That’s fishing.&nbsp; Pat answer but true.</p> <p>This evening . . . I helped some guys from the gym catch some rainbows for a little cookout we planned.&nbsp; We went almost to Fall Creek and started our slow drift down.&nbsp; I thought they would absolutely eat up night crawlers.&nbsp; It was cloudy, with no wind and just a little bit of water running.&nbsp; By the time we got up there, the sun was out big and bright and we didn’t do that well.&nbsp; It took quite a bit longer to catch enough trout to feed seven hungry young men . . . even my jig wasn’t working as it had the past few evenings.&nbsp; The trout just weren’t interested in eating.&nbsp; And most were small rainbows, too.</p> <p>That’s fishing.</p> <p>I did switch them to the jig-and-float method, and we finished our drift by the resort. We used brown or black 1/50-ounce jigs six-feet deep. We caught several, but again, didn’t tear them up.</p> <p>Something that worked real well for Babler last week was fishing a pink micro jig under a float nine feet down. I thought that was too deep but can’t argue with his success.&nbsp; Then he dropped a gray #14 scud below the jig and drifted it from Andy’s down to Fall Creek.&nbsp; He said they also did extremely well throwing my eighth-ounce sculpin jig from Fall Creek all the way to the Branson Landing on a couple of trips last week.</p> <p>The water is running slow enough right now that anchoring from our place down is really ok.&nbsp; There’s no danger because of swift current.&nbsp; Anchoring and fishing with minnows, night crawlers or Power Bait is pretty easy for those who don’t want to mess with trying to keep the boat straight or off the banks.&nbsp; There seems to be enough rainbows in this part of the lake to catch without having to drift.&nbsp; But I wouldn’t spend much time in any one spot if you’re not catching . . .&nbsp; move around and try other areas.&nbsp; I’ve found that there are definitely good spots and there are bad spots.&nbsp; Trout do tend to school up, especially just after they’ve been stocked.</p>

I fished last evening in front of the resort. Had 4 boats go by me... even one of them slowed down and idled by, not to throw a wake. We exchanged waves. True story. We all have good and bad stories to share--- and we only hear about the bad ones. Food for thought.

No pics this time. Wish I had taken the camera this evening. I wanted to see if I could find some crappie on Taneycomo so I headed out about 1 pm today. It had rained alittle, still cloudy, little wind. Nice. But by the time I made it to Powersite, the sun came out. Headed into a couple of cuts- very clear water and saw nothing but big carp. They ran from my jigs. After a couple discouraging stops, I headed back up to Bull Creek where I knew a few spots. At least I could catch a few bass, maybe. Found a shady spot on a cut bank before the creek turns to the north and caught one on a white jig. Then another. Thought I was into them. I ended up with 5 keepers from 11-13 inches. Threw back a few less than 11 inches. Couple of females mostly spawned out. Up where the lake opens up to the big area where hunters hunt ducks- there's a couple of blinds up there- I caught a white bass. I worked it pretty good and ended up with 12 nice whites. Some had spawned out and some were half way through. All on white jigs. This evening I was thinking about eating some trout for dinner. So I took a boat and pushed out of the stall- trolled to the middle of the lake and started fishing a 1/8th oz sculpin jig off the bottom. Let it go all the way till the line goes slack, then jerk it up and start working it. No wind so I could study the line- watch for premature slack in the line (stopping before it hits the bottom). I drifted all the way down past Cooper Creek's dock. Caught 8 rainbows before I got to the pump house. Then something slammed my jig and immediately came out of the water, twice. This trout was thick like a linebacker and strong. It was a brown... another brown. Forgot to mention a gal caught (and released) a 22 inch brown caught in front of the resort today- Ryan weighed it- 5.5 pounds. Not sure what she caught it on. Mine was 18 inches but very heavy. Fun to fight. Caught another 7 rainbows with one pushing 18 inches at the last. Man this lake is fishing good... I may not go above my place for quite some time now! They are still running 20-30 MW or about 1/2 unit all day. Wonderful!

$7 per day to fish. If you're fishing more than 5 days, buy an annual. $7 for a trout permit to fish in Missouri's trout areas. There is a daily trout permit for trout parks.

I hardly ever fish down here ... but I think I'll start fishing it more. Chance to catch something besides a trout is a plus. As I drifted down past Cooper, I was thinking about Scott's big brown he caught on power bait. I thought, "a big brown would much rather eat a small jig than a piece of dough, right?" Never know. Babler cleaned some nice rainbows caught close to Monkey Island today. Caught them on sculpin jigs. He said they were spitting up big scuds. When cleaning one, he found a sculpin in a stomach. So now we have a good number of scuds in places other than close to the dam and rainbows eating sculpins. Things are looking up!! Food for thought.

Yea, we feel your pain. Have had the same thing happen on Taney at least twice a week lately. I haven't gotten an email in a while (actually quite a while) about the forum being too rough for young kids... would like to keep it that way. You'd be surprised how many boys under the age of 12 read this stuff. We need to keep it as clean as we can. Thanks.

The storm we thought we were going to get, we didn't. Just a 10 minute downpour with little wind. Some areas got more action than we did. The lake looked very inviting after the rain. Fog lifting over the water and no wind. They're still running less than one unit and the water here is barely running, moving. Perfect for any fishing but I like to jig fish. My parents live down the street from the resort and they're taking care of mom's mom, my grandmother. Dad's heading back from Dallas this evening and mom needs help getting Grandma to bed so I had to stick close to the house. I dropped the trolling motor down and headed across the lake with the grand dog, Darby, choc lab. Had a sculpin 1/8th oz jig tied on and started with that. After a couple of rainbows, I hooked something I knew wasn't a rainbow. May be a brown... it was staying down. But it wasn't. A smallie! What a treat. I didn't get very far and hung another heavy fish. I got a glance - it was a brown. Man this fish pulled! Great fight but I won. Darby goes absolutely nuts when I hook a fish. She ate a rainbow in the bottom of my boat last summer as a pup and that taste drives her crazy when she sees a fish now. It's almost too much to manage, that's why she doesn't go fishing with me very often. I put both fish in the livewell for pics. Took them over to the dock and Jimmy took them, then we released the fish. The two young boys couldn't understand why I released the fish... said pretty fish taste better. Never heard that one before. Went back out and ended up catching alot of rainbows, another smallie and this nice rainbow right out in front of the Cooper Creek Public Dock (behind fish). Bill (Babler) said they were eating that jig all the way down past Monkey Island and he was right. Just get it to the bottom and jig it up and down. Can vertical jig if you want to.