Phil Lilley

Had a guy fishing during high water at outlet #2. He was close to the outlet with 10 others around plus a dozen people standing above him (tourists) watching. He fought a big trout for 30 minutes and finally someone netted him. About a 23 inch rainbow- snagged in the belly. He commenced to take him to his car!! Right in front of everyone!! The guy who netted him looked like he wanted to tell him off but didn't say anything. I spoke up- told him it was snagged. He ignored me. When he started up the steps I made myself very clear- you snagged the fish and it was illegally caught and it should be released. He turned to argue and I said I'd go to the hatchery and report him if he didn't release it. He was mad but went back to the water and threw it back. A couple of us worked with the fish till it swam off.

Try again. It worked for me. It's been viewed 74 times.

Yes but if he's a local or still here fishing and still taking fish illegally, they can watch the area. It's more of a heads up than something they can take and make a case- I agree with you there. But it is clearly a slot rainbow. If nothing else, he should be very nervous about being caught on camera with his catch... funny if he saw it on youtube.

Check this out. Was looking at some videos that came up after mine and this guy took a slot fish up to his car. Almost ran to get it there!! Just a couple of days ago.

See it on the homepage. I have part 1 up and working on part 2.

First I'm frantically trying to upload our video from yesterday. Lots of trouble with editing and uploading. Google didn't work for some reason and youtube has a 10 minute limit now so I'm having to split the tape in 2 parts and it takes alot of time, esp when I'm in a hurry. Did boat to the dam for 2 drifts at 11 am. Babler is guiding a couple of guys and doing well. The wind is tough blowing upstream. White jigs and red san juan reported Bill. Got this pic of them- nice rainbow on a white jig. Lots of browns today but nothing huge. That's what I was after but only had a couple of bows. It'd slowed down Bill said. Videos up later this afternoon. Want to get it where they're uploaded the same day.

ok... the shad we're seeing are from Table Rock but to say there's no shad in Taney is a bit on the far side. It's like saying there's no catfish here. Absolute statements like that don't abode well for the speaker.

They could be anyplace- I'd say on the south side of middle of the lake- in the flood gate water. That's where most of the critters are coming over from Table Rock. Saw a big carp and several small blue gill, as well as shad on the surface. In the past we've gotten the big browns from the cable to the first island when flood gates are going. A big crank bait might work. How did you do, Don?

Bill and I boated to the dam mind am today to see what was going on. A bunch of guide boats and a couple of private boats were up there and everyone seemed to be catching a few trout. We filmed a bunch but I can't capture the video just now because my son borrowed our firewire cable. Hopefully I'll get it tonight. We made lots of drifted and tried several techniques. Fly fished with 20 feet of tippet under an indicator with a san juan and scud combo. Caught fish but was impractical. Drifted a san juan red and a #10 olive/gray scud combo using a drift rig and caught some, mainly on the sj. Then we saw it... a shad floating in the foam. Then another. We pulled out the white jigs and started catching much larger rainbows with huge stomachs buldging out. Time Pagie told us he had been catching rainbows that were spitting out shad. Caught nothing huge... 16-17 inches maybe but beautiful colors and fat. Heard Buster had a 15-20 lb brown come after a stocker on a clients line right at big hole this am too. Water temp- 45 coming over the dam and 43 coming under. Water still stained over the dam and clear under. If I get the video online it'll be late tonight.

Nothing's changed in over a week. Same water level, same chalky color. Me and Bill are going out to try to catch fish on a fly rod today. Roark is still the hot spot. Drifting power eggs from Monkey down thru bridges is still about the best bait drift. Best way to catch nice trout is drifting scuds up by the dam and below Lookout, spin rod using a drift rig. Table Rock came up a foot yesterday but is starting to drop again. Guys- they will NOT change the flow at the dam until Table Rock and Beaver are manageable. We are still under flood control and more rain is in the forecast. We may see flood gates for the whole month of April.

It's probably your browser. Exit out of whatever you're using and open it back up and see if it changes. If you're using firefox, it's the worst. You may have to get the new download to fix it. I used to have alot of problems but none lately. Not sure what you mean by "kicked off".

I'd say a couple of inches... rivers and creeks were high yesterday so I'd think their even higher today. When you say clear water- we won't see clear water till may be this summer. The water at least at the dam is perfect for fishing- off color green.

He's not going to brag on himself so I will for him. He fished on the Am side- first tournament for him. Finished with 3 keepers and 12th place out of 185. Let him fill in the rest.

It's not bad at in the dam area. Heard the place finishers at a tournament yesterday (I think) caught their fish there on pea gravel and in the brushes. I'd keep trying pea gravel banks- swim a grub or rig.

Web? Any ideas? When I tried it the first time, I had to hit the play button because it said it stopped. It's worked for me since.

It's working for me. I did reboot the program. Have to view it in Internet Explorer.

5 flood gates are open on the main dam. None on the aux dam.

Sure ask alot of questions... some I'm reluctant to answer in public Don't know about the bush- water is too dingy. Yes there are trout up past the resort. Don't know about suckers. Whites/??? who knows when. I've only heard of a few males during the day. You're just going to have to go and report back to us.

Any help on spots I will add to the map.

It's about a 5 mile run to Roark from here and another- what- 4-5 miles to Rockaway. Economics and time management would be the reasons why I wouldn't run any further downstream. I'd think that would be clear but may be not.

Yocum is a trib of Long Creek south of the state line. http://ozarkanglers.com/index.php?option=c...7&Itemid=47 Find water running in and you'll find cats I'd think.

Good for you guys.... but the problem is the people who read this aren't the ones doing stupid stuff- probably. But if you are one of those... well... I'd ban you from this site if I could. Sorry- no smiley face on this one.

Where did you get that from? Give me song and verse please. Just saying catching anything in this current above Roark with 6 guys in a pontoon is difficult- may not be as difficult down there with slower water and more places to get out of the current. That's why Roark is where we chose to go- both the client and guide. We differ in our philosophy in guiding. So be it.

The ramp is under about 10 feet of water right now. With a larger boat you'll have to put in at Beaver Creek Park at the mouth of the river. Follow highway O off 160 to the park. The run up to the bridge may be alittle tricky staying in the channel since the area is flooded so bad but you should be able to. No problems getting up past the bridge- it's very deep for about a mile. You'll be able to tell when it starts forming back to the original creek and that's where it gets shallow.

Babler said no one he knows have found where the bass are yet.