Ryan Miloshewski

@tjm Quenten was checking people at Pointe Royale last Friday night. I called him when I saw two guys with catfish rods, worms and a five gallon bucket by outlet one and he headed right over. Granted, that's just one night, but they definitely are having more of a presence over the last year or so. Heck, last year I got checked for my license three times in one of Phil's bass boats. Chris was motoring around in a non-descript rig. I loved it! All you can do is be non-confrontational, call Quenten or Chris, get a pic of the license plate, and hope it's a deterrent. In the end, though, with all the BS, Taney is still an astounding fishery--and probably the best it has ever been since the 1970s.

There are none as of April when I talked to Shane Bush, the MDC biologist for an article on Taneycomo. It's just a select group of fishermen who've been complaining for a few years. Guess that could have changed, but I doubt it.

Now that, I agree with. Correct or not, that can be the case--like the single point vs treble hook debate. I'm just saying 99% of regulations on a lake/river/stream have roots in science (whether that's, like you stated, falling back into "science," or a solid base like, say, creel limits).

They do not. With the vast majority of trout not being able to spawn successfully, it'll likely never be that way, nor will they shut down during November-February timeframe. I wish they would when the DO levels tank each fall.

Literally of them start with scientific foundation. The goal being the preservation and conservation of a fishery.

Oh, even better to squash the notion!

Yep, was referring to the C&R area. Should've clarified.

It would have no scientific backing. Every study you read, from the 1970s to now, says there is no difference in mortality between single hooks and treble hooks. Wouldn't bother me though, treble hooks are terrible at keeping fish hooked. I fish both flies and jerkbaits as well. The real issues are what Pete noted and below: Outlet fishermen using their "Taneycomo rig" with amnesia line snagging fish during low DO events Boga grips splitting lower jaws Mishandling of fish once caught (see: squeezing the life out of them, dragging them on the rocks for pics So, folks can keep bantering about treble hooks killing fish and ignoring the real reasons. Tale as old as time. Just because the White has it people think it's necessary around here. You know what AGFC stands for, right?

Went down and stayed at Phil's Saturday-Monday to do some fishing. Fortuitously, @JestersHK and @Seth were down as well. Fishing overall was tough during the daylight. And I mean some of the toughest fishing I've seen in a while. Of course, I could've drug scuds and did well, but I just didn't want to do that. So take it with a grain of salt. The jig and jerkbait bite outside of darkness was just rough, though. And it wasn't just me. DJ and I fished with Blake Harris Friday morning 5-8am and we maybe caught 15 fish. Then I joined DJ, his daughter and her boyfriend, and his brother in law Friday night. Fishing was stellar with the full moon. We caught rainbows, browns, walleye and white bass. I was using a fly rod but the rest used jerkbaits and jigs and did well. DJ, Seth and I went out late Saturday night, fishing 11pm-3am out of Seth's boat. We caught a ton of fish on Duane's 762 jerkbaits, with a couple right around 20-inches. And DJ may or mat not have soiled his pants. Sunday my cousin John came down and we fished 5-dark with jerkbaits and jigs. I caught one, fat 18-inch brown across from Phil's and two other 15-inchers. Other than that, not a single other fish. John and I waded yesterday morning and threw sculpins and caught a few nice rainbows. So, I say it was tough, but we still caught fish. It was just a little tougher than normal. Not many pics this trip but got one Friday night. These young guys (I feel like I can call college-aged kids young now) were above us and catching quite a few on jerkbaits.

Yep, on the Sac River two years ago. Setting trot lines around 10pm, the entire boat was covered and lanterns full of them. None of the fish we caught had any in their stomachs.

Craziest one that ever happened to me was in 2002. Gramps and I were fishing our family's farm ponds in Rosebud, MO one summer morning. I was throwing a Kastmaster, just to see if it'd work. I hooked into a 3 lb largemouth and fought it right up to the bank. I tried to hoist it onto dry land and the line snapped. Fish turned and swam away. Gramps says "Don't worry, I'll get your lure back for you." Threw his floating Rapala out where the fish was headed. Twitched it a few times and a bass exploded on it. He got it in and in the mouth was the Kastmaster. 100% true story. I have a picture somewhere of the lure in its mouth.

Years ago I was in Iowa duck hunting and had a Maid-Rite loose meat sandwich. Been calling them Maid-Wrong ever since. Like anything I'm sure it depends on how you do it. But I'll take a sloppy joe.

My great grandpa, John Roche, was part of Patton's 3rd Army that broke through and relieved the guys at Bastogne. Have his flag in a case. The nads on those guys on D-Day and pretty much any theater in WWII is something I'll never even come close to. Introducing Band of Brothers to my buddy today after work.

I am up to 7 in the backyard. They started chewing my flowers so it was time to do a little population control. Nice young ones, too.

SW WI Driftless is one of my favorite places. Looks like I need to expand my horizons to the rest of the region! Awesome stuff.

This one just has sketchy written all over it. Dbag move to go back on the agreement 100%. Likely somebody who doesn't like tournamament bass fishermen, of which there are many. But if he was going to do it he should have just said "screw you, I am going to catch it as soon as you leave and eat it." Then I'd have no problem with it. Also, my guess is he was trying to force feed it and get it in the mouth for that time span. I mean how many females that big are eating while tending to laying eggs? I know of countless stories of big females being fished for, for 10-12 hours without even a sniff at anything. I could very well be wrong, but the whole thing is just sketch. Hopefully the fish is mounted or eaten.

Everything is eating them where they're around.

Not a single one in Kansas City either. Driving back last week on 13 at 70 mph, windows up, radio playing, you could still hear the droning of them. Pretty neat. Buddy caught this channel out of the Sac this weekend.

That is Lookout to Fall Creek. Not the Narrows.

That’s like 300 yds? And why would it be stacked with boats for a cicada bite anyway?

You should try Boulevard's Sixth Glass, Founder's KBS, and Goose Island Bourbon County if you like this one. I can't drink stouts outside of November-March. And weirdly I do not enjoy any alcohol while eating, even wine. I know I'm missing out, but just can't do it.

I thought it was a pink powerworm by the landing??

Oh man that’s hilarious haha! And yes, he was landing a fish and I went back to cast and hit his rod on accident. Next cast it snapped. But he bought a new Scott so let’s not pretend it wasn’t a blessing.

Went down with my buddy Justin early Saturday morning from KC. Got on the water by 6:30 am. Fog was crazy bad but we made it up to Lookout and fished the bluff on cicadas I tied up for the trip. First drift we landed 32..yes, 32. Missed just as many. It was madness. Fished until 10:30 am and took a few hour break before we hit the evening. The evening was a bit tougher because there were cicadas everywhere on the water. We still got plenty of bites, though. We ended up with just over 60 fish on the day. It was the exact same story Sunday, although we didn't count. This morning was rainy and windy with a front moving in and then out, but we still caught 16 fish. They opened three flood gates around 9:00 am or so, so we went up and threw jerkbaits. We caught a few, biggest being a 19-inch rainbow. Biggest on the cicada was this 22-incher. We had a couple others move on them that were much bigger. Definition of heartbreak. It was so much fun. Easily in my top ten fishing experiences of all time.

@fishinwrench you'd be surprised how well a Tiny Torpedo works at night there. A Fat Albert or big chubby would work just fine. As you said, if they're eating big bugs, they're looking for a profile. One thing I've noticed with bigger foam flies with trout...they miss them a lot. The cicadas may be a real-life size 4, but the amount of hookups you're going to get on a size 4 fly is going to be way less than a size 6 or 8. I think it's just physics and fluid dynamics when they open their mouths for it.