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Hey one shot, You crack me up, lol I hope you put some meat in the freezer! And I hope you had a shell left for the next season! Vince

Don it was nice to meet you. Fished for a little over and hour and landed three, hooked several more but the hooks kept pulling out. I opted for the old stand by # 16 grey scud. It was a great day to spend with my wife (she in the shade with book and lawn chair enjoying the cool air). Vince

put in at cricket crk and found stained water, looked for crappie no luck, went up long crk and found some small whites, water temp 53-56

Fished trophy area drifting scuds and sand juans, no bites. Went below fall creek and picked up a few trout on night crawlers and power bait. A slow am.

Hello, wade fished Taney Sun afternoon. Had a good day catching small trout. Most were caught on midges, tried several colors but none better than another. Trout were on the small side, lots of short strikes. If you can identify it I found a fly box. If I can locate the owner be glad to return it. vince.

Fished Taney on Sunday 10 - 2:30. Water was off, we fished out of the boat in the trophy area. We fished jig and float on a flyrod and had a great day, no big fish but alot of them. Best color was olive or sculpin. We still had ice in our eyelets when we left, cold and windy. Vince

Son and Dad fish together./ Priceless

fished Jan 4 2pm till dark below #3 to boat ramp. Action was best on olive scuds, drifting under and indicator but keeping them on the bottom. Lots of short strikes, but good action. Fish ranged from 8 to 14 inches. vince

Hey Trav, I haven't been on for awhile but I can see you haven't posted lately. I enjoyed reading your reports, Hope your doing okay Vince

I'd say Lilley's Landing, just the kind friendly service they give is a good reason, but add to that the great tackle store, marina, clean rooms, great views, close to town but out of traffic is more reason to say their the best. Their knowledge of the fishing is tops, Phil works at knowing the lake and the fishing, he wants his guest to catch fish and be happy. The guides are top of the line, our own Bill Babler is one of Phils finest, he takes pride in putting people on fish and teaching them how to catch them.

Spent a week at No Name lake, Outfitter was Dogskin Outfitters, web site, www.dogskin.com. We had a great time, we spent a week at one of their outpost cabins on a fly in trip. We started with eight people and lost one checking through customs at the border, he had a couple of DUI's and they would not let him enter the country. It was a 1125 mile drive to the airbase on the Winnepeg River and then a 50 minute flight to the outpost. We stayed in a 3 room cabin that slept 8, with solar panels for lights and water pump and propane for frig,cook stove, and hot showers. We fished out of 14 ft v bottom alum boats with a 15 hrs power 4 stroke motor. They told us fishing was slow according to Canadian standards due to ice out being just two weeks previous and the walleye had just spawned and were lethargic. They were lethargic but deffinitely not uncatchable. The morning bite was slow but picked up later in the day. We found them in 10 -12 dept on the edge of weed lines, weed lines were hard to find since ice out was so recent. The best bite was on jigs tipped with minnows worked slowly and I mean slowly on the bottom. I used a med rod with 6 lb line and had a blast. A couple of days caught up to aprox. 70 fish in a full day fishing. Slow maybe by Canadian standards but I don't know anywher in the lower 48 that you can see that kind of action. Average fish sizes aprox 18 - 19 inces, I caught walleye from 7 to 28 1/4 inches. The last day it was storming and the wind kept us off the water till 2 and we had to come in by 5:30 to pack, my partner and I boated 35 walleye and 7 pike. I landed 1 25", 1 26', 2 27", an 1 a quarter " over 28"s. The 28 was just over 8 pds on a digital scale not bad for just coming off their spawn. Due to lack of weeds, (not yet up) it was hard to locate pike in shallow water for fly fishing, but I did find some. I caught aprox 20 pike on the fly and what a blast.. my largest was 32"s. What an awsome and explosive fish. My best fly was a bait fish pattern tied with EP fibers. It is heart stopping to see a big wake rushing through the weeds and explode on your fly as your stripping it in. Steel leader is a must for the pike I don't know how many jigs I lost to pike while eye fishing you set the hook and you just get limp line they cut it so quick you never even feel the fish. This was really a great trip, you can go to their website for pricing they have several different packages for trips. I will try to post some pictures later.

use the chain stringer and put enough weight on the top hook so you can feel it dragging the bottom. that way you know your back hooks will be where they need to be.

Good point. The only advantage I see is most guys have been fishing since they were young, but not all, it would be the same if a guy didn't fish till he was later in life.

Btrout22 haven't neen on since last post. No water generating it was down and I was wading./

Kind of late for Mondays report but here it is. Fished the lake above the boat ramp from noon it dark. Fished san juans, wollie buggers, scuds and soft hackles but by far the best bite came on grey and brown scuds size 14 using 6x. It was really windy and lots of short strikes and lots not short enough. It was a good catching day. Best fish of the day was a bright red bow with a hooked jaw aprox 5 lbs. Couldn't keep my hands dry and by the time it got dark I was a shaking from the cold. But those fish, its hard to leave em. Vince

Hey Dutch fished James R Monday looking for crappie. Caught 3 only one keeper. Could not find a pattern two were caught about 6ft the other about ten ft. Fished alot down to 25ft just couldn't find them. vince

about 3 weeks ago I drifted across the gravel bar at the mouth of fall creek and saw a dead brown. I scoped it up with the net and it was a 18'' brown that had been gigged. Forgot about it, till I saw your post, Vince

Hey Sam thanks for the report been along time since I fished Beaver but I enjoy reading of others success. Vince

Fished taney aug 22, drifted in a boat lower lake used jig and float and caught several bows. Best color olive, pretty slow until shadows started to get long them things picked up real well.

Hey would you guys post a report of your trip. Use to fish up there quite a bit, but not in the last couple of years. Use to fish on the side of the bath house, just down from the storm water drain. Fished jigs mostly and caught crappies whites and hybrids. The station would always be helpful with advice and bait and tackle. Thanks Vince

I used to fillet, remove the redmeat, then cut in strips, put in hot water till it turns white, chill, then dip in cocktail sauce. Got the recipe from MDC Magazine,they called it poor mans lobster. I don't know what lobster taste like but I like dipping things in shrimp cocktail sauce. Vince

fished morning of 7-11 and had a very slow morning. Put in at cooper crk and fished trophy area. Caught a few on micro jigs(brown) and gray scuds. Seemed to be hitting short. Several bites but low hook up percentage. sorry for the not so good report. hopefully better next time. vince

Don't know if this is exotic enough, but went with a group of 33 kids and youth leaders to colorado to raft,camp and climb Mt. Harvard. Well it just so happened that my fly rod made the 18 hour school bus ride in one piece!! Fished a Mountain lake named Bear lake, what a beautiful,clear cold lake that was. I fished for @ 2 1/2 hours and caught four beautiful cutthroat trout. One was about 6 inches long and the other 3 averaged about 14 inches apiece and were fat and colorful. /caught two on zebra midges and two on micro jigs. Also fished a small MT stream and caught @ 15 small trout I think they were cutthroat. Also fished a stream that ran into the Ark. R and got 10 browns and 7 more that looked like small rainbows or cutthroat. The coloration of these fish varied considerably so I'm not real sure what kind of trout they were. I do know that when they were hooked they went crazy and air borne, I broke a cou[ple off because they were so wild. What a blast. We had a great trip, enjoyed great scenery,wildlife and learned alot by spending a week with a bunch of teenagers who truely love life. Vince

JD Why peg the bead above the hook? Do you snag the fish ? How does the hook get in their mouth?

Hey T. Okie, I take it your from around Texoma. Phil and I used to make trips down to the Texoma once a year in mid may to fish for striper below the Dam at Dennison. We would camp and fish below the dam. Always a fun trip if they were running water. One trip was very memoriable as in some weird weather with thunderstorms and tons of hail. It has been a few years hope to do it again sometime. Hope your not in all the flooding I'm hearing about. forgot to tell you about the weather. We have been getting our share of rain, but not too much for these ozark hills. Trock is 2 ft over powerpool so not bad. West of here Neosho and north has been getting hit pretty hard by the looks of radar.