Phil Lilley

The water is going to be running everyday so you won't have any problems getting a boat to the dam, unless the policy at TH doesn't allow it. The outlets are the best. DD can stir you in the right direction if you're going to meet him there.

Are you talking about Ft Smith, Arkansas? Beaver Lake is the nearest, I think. But someone closer to Ft Smith may have to answer this one. The best thing to do is to hire a guide to show you around.

1. Go to http://ozarkanglers.com there's a link on the home page. 2. http://lilleyslanding.com and look under marina. 3. Yes, the rates are listed on our site. Thanks for asking.

Jim is looking into lights but the problem is current. The camera is now at the end of a cable dangling down in the water. With all the debry drifting down like limbs and trees, one can catch the cable and bring the camera up. Also there aren't many fish under the dock like there are when there's no generation. But we're working on some ideas.

I'd fish from either corner at the cable from the shore. Both places- you can fish effectively with jigs and small crank baits. Not sure about fly rod. We carry bunnies, double bunnies and white woolies.

Hats and stickers at Lilleys' - yes. No patches- sorry. If you know Vince at the fieldhouse, I left some stickers in his office.

After the report of shad being seen below the dam, I had to go out and see for myself. I put the boat in at the dam and boated to the cable. Is there shad? Yes. What I saw- 4 shad on the surface and another being gulped by a trout. First fish I caught... I was against the bank on the south side of the lake at the cable- parked in the eddie... was a 2-pound white bass. I thought, "oh boy- supper!!" and then I remembered we're going out this evening. That's ok- only caught the one so I released it. I got several short bites there and caught one small rainbow- left and drifted down throwing the 1/8th oz white jig. Caught a couple more rainbows but by no means did I tear them up. Back to the cable and the north side at the cable. Fish were more active there but still no hookups, only short bites. Drifted another 3 times to the boat ramp and boated 6 rainbows, one in the pic. Had a hold of a larger rainbow, very fat, and lost it at the boat. Here's what I think- there are a few shad coming thru the dam. I don't think they're making it down very far before getting eaten by the gulls and fish. And there's not enough to cause a big feeding frenzy... one like you'd expect during a shad run. But I think it will happen- I think we'll see shad for a few weeks and fish will get accustomed to seeing shad and eating them. I think the fishing will get real good and stay hot for the next couple of months. White bass- it's not unusual to see whites, blacks and even crappie close to the dam in certain eddies during hard, continuous generation. This especially occurs when the flood gates are going.

Thanks for posting... I'll have to look for your son playing ball. We try to go to as many games as we can. Thanks for participating on the forum. Hope to see you here often.

Spring River, Current River, Eleven Point I think.

Oh my... I'll have to go fishing today. Last... hard to say but it could last quite a while seeing the conditions: very cold and lots of generation. I've seen it last thru March into April and late as the first of May.

Take a look at OzarkHunters.Com- the logo is a link at the top of this page. There's info on hunting on Taney there.

A few but not many.

We may work something out... email me.

None that I know of. Some people want you to think there's only trout here... but not true! Bass (blacks, kentucks, smallies), blue gill, crappie, cats, whites and more.

Did you see shad or are they just hitting white. They've been hitting white for quite sometime. I wouldn't doubt if some are coming thru... but just haven't talked to anyone yet that's seen them in person. Until then, it's not official, for me anyhow. But they will hit white- they do every winter... and most of the year.

I think he (they) got mad cause I shut them down on OAF. Now they can't register and post on hunters either. I've gone from 20-40 spammer per day trying to register on OAF to 2-3 after the change. To register and post you have to go thru me- I ok all new members before they are active. More work for me but less handaches... like OHF. Over 30 posts yesterday and today. But they are gone.

It's screwed up.

http://ozarkanglers.com/fff/nafff-3-07_newsletter.pdf

Just had a group cancel the week of June 15-23 so the whole camp is open. Although trout season opens June 9th, this is the first week we'll host clients at camp. Kings and Sockeye will start running that week- they have in years past. Rainbow fishing will be excellent in early June and so will Northerns and Dollies.

Thanks for providing this!! Very cool information.

Hard to say at this point. They were better in 06 but still way down. Hopefully they'll keep coming back in good numbers.

phil-at-lilleyslanding.com

I'd say it's very early for whites. We won't see many till next month and even them it'll be in the vicinity of the mouths of the creeks and at Powersite. But I'm not as experienced as some of the other guys on the forum in early white bass on upper Bull Shoals.

Close at 6 pm.

Yes... that's one of many benefits (possible benefits) to generation/rain. The White is getting a good run of shad now. Not sure about the Norfork.