Phil Lilley

All the talking and work is done. We're waiting on a word from the owner on if and how this will play out. Here's a hint... go read my blog. I posted my thoughts on this venture some time back. Sorry- it really wasn't a secret. Bill and I had an INCREDIBLE helicopter flight from King Salmon 125 miles south to Yantarni Bay and the camp yesterday. Crossing the tundra, lakes and mountain range was .... words can't describe. But coming into view of the ocean was breath taking. I shot video of it. Bill took pics. We'll share them when I get them formated.

I saw Duane this morning but didn't bring this contest up - I should have. Better pray I don't get eaten by a bear before I get back to hand you the money!!

You might try jigs... but you're limited to whatever is out in front of the dock which mainly are stockers. Have to head to the trophy area to really have a chance at bigger trout.

Be back Saturday.... my mistake. That puts a hurt on my cleanup efforts on Taney. I'll have someone cover. We will probably forgo the potluck lunch at the shelter though. In Anchorage. Leave for King Salmon in about an hour. Then to points unknown... about 125 south. In a helicoper no less!

It was a great time. Thanks to all those who helped.

Bill and I are leaving for a top secret mission today. We will arrive in a remote, undisclosed location in SW Alaska tomorrow to check out what possibly could be a good fishing hole. We'll be home Friday. Ta Ta...

It's seasonal. We always have alot of moss this time of year. Great for the bugs!

And you caught in on....

Throw your jigs... they work as good as when the water is running. No float. Sculpin has been best color.

Oh I think Micheal Kyle might get it now... unless creek wader pays all his relatives to get on the site and turn pages tomorrow.

We have a map at the office and people on the dock that can show you exactly what to look out for. Come on by.

Take the lake, the boat and the fishing out of the equation and you still have an angry person who yells at the drop of a hat. It wasn't you... it wasn't the fishing. It was his problem. You just was his target for 30 seconds. Be like water on a duck... let it roll off your back.

Had a trip this morning. Got out at 7:30 am. Had a son and dad from Louisiana and yes they were cajun! Fun morning for sure. Got to Andy's House and started in. Micro jigs under a float, just like the 2 previous mornings. But this time they didn't take. I thought- good slow movement of the water downstream... lots of rainbows swimming around. Ten-fifteen minutes past and nothing so I handed them my other rigs- 3/32nd oz sculpin jigs. The water was moving faster for sure and I thought- they aren't supposed to run water this morning! Wrong. They lied. One unit came on and the moss started flowing. Judd caught a couple of rainbows before it got too bad. Boated to Big Hole. Tried drifting a San Juan, scud, threw jigs some more- caught a couple but not up to my expectations. So down we went to the resort and picked up a couple boxes of night crawlers. Boated back up, not quite all the way to Fall Creek. Tied on a #6 hook and a #7 split and drifted down the middle. At first it was ok, picking up one here and there. But the last hour it got good and they finished their limit of nice rainbows plus releasing a bunch more. Good morning. Paul and Judd went home with a nice mess of trout. As I cleaned some of the rainbows, I saw lots and lots of scuds in several of them- about #14's. And these were rainbows caught below Fall Creek.

Well, on the front page of oaf.

No- water is coming on around noon- 1 pm everyday this week. Check the SPA schedule site- link is at the top of the page,

Boated again to the narrows this morning at 6 am. Had Scott Gamm, his brother and son in tow. Fish didn't want to bite quite as good as yesterday but it wasn't bad. They liked olive micros instead of the tan ones this am. Caught a decent number of rainbows... 6x tippet and fished 3 feet deep. Scott and Ben

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Took Kenny Kaiser, an outdoor writer, this morning. We got out at 6 am and beat everyone to the lake. Not real foggy but we had to take our time getting up to Lookout. Fly rods and tan micro jigs... man the trout were all about that! The lake was moving ever so slowly downstream so we drifted along for 2 hours before hitting the narrows. Boated back up alittle bit and fish another hour. Never slowed down. Caught more than 50 rainbows and this one brown. We stayed in the channel and used 6x tippet, fishing the micros 4 feet deep under a palsa indicator. Man some of these trout really fight hard for their size. Nothing over 15 inches- lots of fun! My streak continues fishing with writers... they bring me good luck.

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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.

Twenty College of the Ozarks students, accompanied by college faculty members, will leave today for a trip of a lifetime. They are part of a travel contingent to France that is the result of a unique partnership between The Greatest Generations Foundation, (www.tggf.us) a Denver non-profit organization, and College of the Ozarks. The 20 students will accompany a group of 10 D-Day veterans making their first visit back to the invasion site since each of them stepped foot on the beach in June of 1944. For the students, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience and for the veterans, it’s a chance to revisit the places that helped to define their generation. The students will travel with the ten veterans and staff from T.G.G.F to London before crossing the English Channel and traveling through northern France. They will go from DC to London to Utah Beach, Omaha Beach and Point-Du-Hoc. They will visit the crucial Pegasus Bridge together. On June 6, the contingent will join in the International Commemoration of D-Day. Throughout the journey, a pair of students will team up with a veteran. Each day they will rotate, escorting a new veteran, and learn his story. At night the students will take turns blogging about their experience, as well as uploading photos. To follow the group, visit their blogs at http://www.News-Leader.com/blogs/CofONormandy and http://thenormandyexperience.com/. You may also visit their picture gallery at http://www.news-leader.com/photos/CofONormandy.