Phil Lilley

This is a very simple situation, one which arises more and more often on the forum... If you have a beef with someone, send him a PM. Keep it off the forum. It takes more guts to take it to someone personally cause it's one-to-one. Come on guys... quite posting stuff you know will start a fight. Yes you can disagree and post your disagreement but do it in a respectful way or don't do it at all. If something REALLY ticks you off, send a PM.

Saw your pic in the office... beautiful rainbow. Congrats!!!

I could create a forum topic all by itself and call it- THE PIT We'd dump any topic that goes south there, just as it turns that direction. Then let it goes it's course for those who want to waller. Problem is many of these topics are good discussions before they turn. I'd hate to lose some of the good content to THE PIT. May be we won't do that. Forums are like TV's... if you don't like the channel, change it - or block it.

He was fishing with guide Tim Roller. They were either throwing or trolling crank baits for kings - didn't try for a brown but it happens. I'll have another pic of the fish and roller tonight via Jim Johnson.

What a fish... guess someone will have to catch that 50 pound brown swimming around in Taney now.

"> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"> Here's Sara and Jeriah in the ECU in Lake Charles. They have weaned him off of almost all O2. He should be able to go home Friday.

Yep- they missed it by 24 hours. Non-the-less, he's here and doing well.

Thanks everyone. I can't imagine this little one could be more of a blessing that our own kids... they were wonderful to raise and even more of a blessing today. But I'm ready for anything... Another chapter... that's right.

Our oldest daughter gave birth to our first grandchild - a bounding boy - this morning about 9 am. Jeriah Cadin Clark was born to Josh and Sara Clark at Hermann Memorial Hospital in Orange, Texas at 8:59 am. Today is also our youngest son's 21st birthday. Happy Birthday Greg! Today starts a new era in the lives of Marsha and I. Generations come and go but the God of all creation doesn't change. Glory to Him... thank you Lord! On the other end of the spectrum, my grandma Margarett Harvey turns 100 later next month in Sherman, Texas. Pics to follow. I'm still recovering from driving all night last night to get here.

There's nice rainbows being caught all over the lake right now, not just finding them in the trophy area. Smallies... I might have to run out and see if I can find one or two. Thanks Darren for the report.

http://www.rogueangels.net/ Met this gal on facebook. She guides for Bear Trail Lodge, downstream from our place on the Naknek River. I sure miss that place, especially right now.

Anyone is the Branson area need anything special? We just get alot of anglers in the shop who are looking for particular items we don't have so... here's your chance.

Got out from 2-5 pm. Boated to the Narrows above Fall Creek. Lake has been high all day from the rain yesterday and last night. Must have gotten a heavy local amount downstream cause the level has held high all day - about 18 inches. High enough that alot of the boats going up went right across the bars without hitting. Big boats were heading uplake above Fall Creek on the wrong side of the lake and never hit. Lucky dogs. Water was alittle off color too. We threw 1/8th oz olive jigs and slayed the rainbows. Alot of them would hit the jig right at the boat- most of the time they'd sheer off at the sight of the boat but because of the dingy water, they'd keep coming. Most were around 12 inches but had some pushing 15-16 inches. Lots of fun!

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Yea- your question doesn't look good. I'd stay below Fall Creek and use gulp eggs in orange and pink. Stay out of the trophy area is you want to keep fish.

We'll see THAT picture may be by Christmas!!

I'm movin' the topic... I've seen them crap before- lots of times. No big deal. They do it wherever they feel like.

I have a Big Brothers Big Sisters event here on the 3rd so I won't make it again this year.

I probably made my post alittle too personal against Dan052 - sorry about that. Wanted to make a point about Crane Creek. It is special. I'd almost compare it to finding an endangered species while building a road... they find a cave with blind crawfish and the project is halted. The McCloud Rainbow should be on an endangered list because of it's rarity. How many places in the country are there pure strains of the McCloud? They've survived how many droughts and floods? Our fight isn't with each other, it's against the powers who want to build a lake. We should keep it that way.

No we won't go with the flow. And it won't be a small group of people fighting this, you can assured of that. You have an opinion... yes... and you're free to express it. You may suggest we let go of the tree, but we won't. And it's not our favorite fishing hole... most of us haven't even fished there. I have once. It's more than a fishing hole. And in our opinion and many others, it's worth fighting for, thank you. Now you can politely agree to disagree and quit telling us what we should and shouldn't do... or you could go ahead and tell us to let go of the tree - you'll be wasting your finger-energy. I happen to like nuclear power plants. They should build more of them and not hydro plants.

Email sent.

Does anyone know who would be THE fish man in Arkansas Fish & Game? The guy who could send us the report?

Is it online? Can't seem to find it on their site.

http://www.examiner.com/x-6356-Wichita-Ind...ouri-hydropower Remember this quote form Ronald Reagan? "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" How about this one from Barack Obama? "To truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy." So, in this time of us beholden to foreign despots for our energy, a climate that Gore and Obama say is collapsing around us as I type, and the words "clean" and "green" at the top of the nation's lexicon, how is it that trout fishing in Arkansas is now taking precedent over clean, renewable hydro-electric power for residents of Missouri? That's the question raised by Wally Kennedy's front page story in Sunday's Joplin Globe. It seems that Empire District Electric Company is going to be forced to decrease output of hydro-electric power at its Lake Taneycomo dam facility to facilitate increased trout fishing downstream on the White River in Arkansas. Kennedy does an excellent job of bringing out the details of the cluster but in the end it boils down to one word: Politics. The economic-political interests of Arkansas (increased tourism revenue from year-round trout fishing) against the economic-political interests of southwest Missouri (decreased hydro-electric energy replaced by more expensive coal/natural gas generation). Jeff Davis, a member of the Missouri Public Service Commission appears to understand the situation: “Somebody got to them. I’m not sure who,’’ he said. “They issued a final report and then all of a sudden a proposed addendum comes out of nowhere without any consultation with the regulatory agencies from the affected states. The first we knew about it is when it appeared in the Federal Register. “This is something the SWPA thought up on their own. We had one shot to compensate Empire and ultimately their customers for losing this electric capacity. The first offer was a little low, but acceptable. The addendum cut it in half, which is not acceptable.’’ There's certainly nothing wrong with the state of Arkansas wanting to increase economic activity on the White River. But with a new President in the White House and he and his surrogates telling us daily that clean, renewable energy is of utmost national priority, a plan putting polluting human activity above non-polluting renewable electricity generation is a mixed-message at best. Congressman Roy Blunt's office is now involved, The Globe has brought it to the public's attention, only one question yet remains: Rhetoric or reality, which shall it be Mr. President?

He's got more nice videos too.