Phil Lilley

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I'd stick with the normal bugs... unless you're dropping it next to a cleaning sink. That's not very sporting, IMO. We won't let guests fish near our sinks.

When she went to move it, were you on the ladder too??? She might have been getting you back for videoing here!! Next video we see of Mrs. Oneshot, she'll be wearing a hard hat!

Guts should figure into your plan... can't use them as bait- against the law. Yes alot of trout are cleaned on our docks. The parts are thrown into the lake and trout eat them If you're looking for a plan it's easy- fish with night crawlers from Fall Creek and you'll do good. Read the articles I've writing on bait fishing- or jig fishing if that's what you want to do. Fishing is pretty darn good right now.

Campus Crusade boys fish here quite a bit in the summer. They've learned how to fish jigs over the year... and now you see why. Caught this in front of Trout Hollow is the word. The girls got the pic but didn't get a name or the color of the jig. They're trying to get both right now. This is a gut fish... probably has been under Trout Hollow's dock pigging out of guts all its life. We have the same rainbows under ours. Not taking anything away from catching it... it takes alot of skill and alittle luck to land one of these guys.

I went back out last evening for 40 minutes of fishing with my nephew Ryan. White jigs again but this time they weren't interested. Ryan caught 3 to my one. I woke up this morning at 5 am, heard the birds chirping and thought- I should go to the dam and fish. I did. Got in the water at 6 am. Started above outlet 2. First drift using a #14 silver gray scud and hooked up with a nice rainbow... NOT good news. I hate catching fishing on the first cast. First cast curse... and it was in full affect this morning. No other strikes for quite sometime. Changed flies- scuds, midge, soft hackles. Worked down to the big hole. Started connecting using a #18 green brassie soft hackle... I did say connecting. 25 strikes and one to the hand. It was a gorgeous morning to be out. No complaints. Slick conditions. Trout were midging all morning on a tiny cream midge- about a #26. If we'd had a breeze and chop on the water, it would have been way different.

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Close but no cigar. Looks like it's between Duane and creek wader. I may be handing a hundred dollar bill to duckydoty in person here in a week or so. My treat at Eddies!!!

Just kicking this to the top of the "View New Posts" list. With almost 4600 members, I'd think we could get more than 294 picks here. Thanks.

I have several maps on this site. You can find them on oa proper under Taneycomo or on the forum under... Lake Taneycomo Forum at the top of the page. They show all the holes and gravel bars.

I gotta ask... What was she doing with a framing hammer?

Wow- and yesterday was a blue-bird day. Sounds like alot of fun- thanks for sharing!

http://www.snotr.com/video/2630

Man you got more guts than any of us!!

Just got these in... interesting. Not 10% drop- more like a 25% drop in numbers. Jan - 48,667 Feb - 39,911 Mar - 49,066 Apr - 54,090 May - 51,690 June - 64,150 July - 64,150 Aug - 64, 150 Sep - 60,390 Oct - 54.090 Nov - 35,190 Dec - 20,790 Total - 606,334

The code was changed to include common fly tying materials including rubber legs.

I saw that... HBD to Team Turkey too.

Oh yea- water is supposed to be off tomorrow am till 1 pm. Pretty sweet pattern- nice if they keep it up through the week!

Had to get back out and fish the evening... hoping water would be off but they kicked on a unit about 6 I think. Got up to Lookout and the water had time to clear. Lots of crud on the surface all the way up. Typical this time of year for the algae to accumulate as the water warms when not generating. Babler reported surface temp was 63 today at noon. White jigs. One unit, sun dropped behind the trees and no fog. What could be better. Curtis's son Craig is here for a couple of days so he tagged along. He's never caught a brown and that was on his list. White was the best color to get his brown and he did catch it down by the narrows. Caught alot of rainbows on the drift- fished the bluff bank of course. This morning they liked it hopped sharply when worked and tonight was nothing different. Missed a bunch too. All these rainbows are fat and colorful. I had 2 pushing 19 inches and ever bit of 3 lbs. Craig had one that the colors popped (pic). I hooked a nice brown but he spit the jig back in my face. It was a crazy hour of fishing- similar to some of the other reports from the weekend. Great fishing!

Had a trip this am. Headed to the trophy area where Bill had already taken up camp - 7:55 am. I'll let him do his won report. The sun was already on the water except of some shade against the bank. No wind- very slick. Could see everything- lots of fish- both suckers and trout- but lots of trout. They were picky. Tried zebras and micros- nothing. At 9 am we headed down for night crawler country. But they were tough too. Not good. Had one nice rainbow in the well and they wanted to take home a few for supper. Called Bill and he said they had picked up above so threw back the rainbow and headed up again. We tried and tried to get them to take a fly- a jig. Nothing. It shut down for Bill too. But I could catch 'em on a jig thrown straight- no float. Sight fished for them- casted to a school and they'd fight over it. They wanted something moving- that was clear. So I taught my clients how to work a jig. They did good! Ended up with 7 < 12 inches for cleaning and threw back some REAL nice rainbows. These fish are full of fight, big and fat. Curtis reported someone bringing in a 23 inch rainbow this am caught in the trophy area. Weighed and released at the dock.

Babler said fishing this am was very good. He started with olive micros below Andy's and ended with red zebras after the sun hit the water. Water off.... haven't reported that in a lot of months. The wind blew some today which made fishing better. When it's flat, it's tough. I saw this played out this evening. I boated to Andy's alittle after 6 pm. The sun was still bright but rainbows were midging pretty hard. Where I was sitting in the middle of the lake, the water was chopped on the bluff side but not on the shallow side. The wind was blowing around the corner at Lookout and only hitting the bluff. Trout were nudging the surface quietly in the shallows but slashing the surface on the chop side- very aggressive. Bigger fish too. Saw some minnows- yes minnows schooling close to the surface and the bigger trout were going after them - again - in the channel where the chop was. I've NEVER seen this before. Yes I stripped a cone-head leech a bit and had one take but as soon as I tied it on, the wind stopped and the bite did too. Caught rainbows on a #14 grey scud- best- working it in 3-4 feet of water and on the flats in 1-2 feet. Best was at the end of the day at the Narrows but on the flat in shallow water. They were REALLY active up on the flat. I pumped the stomach of the rainbow in the pic- several sow bugs and a scud- no midges that I could see. I always fish a scud with no weight in shallow water, using one-and-a-half times leader under the float than the depth. If I was fishing 2 feet of water, I'd use 3.5 feet under the float. They were hitting it on the fall.

Schedule says no water again tomorrow.

No way to predict. This was a surprise.

Booked the 2 bedroom lakefront- now we have #6 open for tonight and tomorrow night. $69 per night.

None scheduled all day, according to the SWPA site.