Micheal Kyle

Never payed attention to the pics where is it. That is pretty cool

Yes the book is awsome, it does not leave anything out. I have sold a bunch in the store. The thing that I love about the book is that is pretty much tells you everything that you need to know from flies even directions to the places where to put in at. It even has a guide in the back that tells where all the local fly shop, outfitters are located Two fly rods up.**** There are more books out there like this one and are named Fly Fishers Guide to Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, The Yellowstone. there are so many I can not think of all of them off the top of my head. They all have the same format. Michael

well the one night that is going to rain I'm going to miss it you think that any one notice that I drove 3 hours to meet up to fish. 3 hours back maybe time for 1-or 2 fish. If I'm quite they may never miss me.(LOL) I hope that someone catches a big fish.

That sounds great Greg

After just a one fish stand you would dump me just that fast. Oh I'm hurt I will just have to go and stand at the pole and try and redeem myself to win you back.

On July 6th 7p.m. Backcountry Outfitters will host a Night Fishing Taneycomo Seminar. It will be held at the outlet 2 pavilion. We will cover gear,flies,tactics,and locations to fish. We will be tying flies that we use @ night and hold a short blind casting seminar. After the seminar is over we will be splitting off into fishing groups. The seminar is free and the after dark seminar will be $20 per person. For the on water seminar we will provide the flies and knowledge of the river. The on the water portion of the seminar is limited to 30 persons a night. We will be rotating through different holes showing you different ways to fish effectively at night. The on the water instructors will be myself,Gary Kyle,Jeremy Hunt,Duane Doty, and Eric Strader. E-Mail,call, or come in to the shop to sign up for the night time portion of the seminar. If you plan on staying for the on the water seminar you will need waders,a light source and a rod to fish with. E-Mail-michael@backcountryoutfitters.org Phone-417-889-6548

Last night was no exception to the rule of water running at Taneycomo, the water was on at 11:59 and off at midnight. The other thing that made it nice was the in pending storms to the north that never showed up. Myself, my Father(Stubby)as you all know him and the lovely ozarkriverrat were present for the taking of many trout on the end of a lighting rod. We started the evening off at the big hole and ended it at 4:00am up by the cable. The fishing was very hot at the start while the water level was falling, the it reached the stagnate state level which for me is about 1 foot high. At that point I have a honey hole and that is where we went. Between the 3 of us we had 63 fish down there. Well it was 3am when we arrived at the cable and the fishing was hot all over again we were fishing both sides and getting hit just about every cast. Then WHAM I here some one yelling for me big fish, GET THE NET!!! When I arrived on location it was a very nice Brown in the net. We measured the fish and he came right in on the 22" mark. Took a photo and then decided to go home. We were using MOHAIR Leeches size 10 and just about any color you wanted to cast at them, just strip it real slow. I believe that is a song. I think that I have a theme song for the pole down in the big hole. JUST STRIP IT REAL SLOW. The fish avg was about 16 inches without the big brown. Out of all the places that we fished we had a total of 117 fish I hope that everyone has a good weekend we are heading north. Michael

I love the brass pole concept we can tell the day time fishers it's our spoting pole. I would like to here Welcome to the Jungle even though I will not be there. Yes Ronnie I will save you a copy.

Yes I have a lot of copies and yes they are still free. Thankyou to everyone for there support. Terry you forgot about the Trout Ale Brewed out west. I'm pretty sure it will compliment any trout dinner. Michael

SHHH Its our secert I think I just heard they will run for the next 48 hours straight(LOL)

Yes Sorry I should have given you more warning Next time I will do better.

Once you go Brown you cant go Bowack.

I love the Soft Hackle if there is however just a little chop on the water and the fish are midging. Put a #12 crackle back on and strip, strip, strip, until you get tried of catching fish. Now the reason I fish a crackle back this way is because I think that it imitates a whole group of midges that are stuck together and it's like giving a kid a carrot or a candy bar. 99% of the kids will take a candy bar. The set up consist of a floating line, 9-12' leader(5x-6x) and 1 crackle back in a Size 12. I like the olive and then if that color is not working go to a pale yellow. You want the fly only to be down about 4-6". You will see a wake then feel a tug. Good Luck If night fishing Mohair leech in various colors.

Yes the fog is a huge issue in a boat. I have fished Taney at night In a boat a lot. I would never put a boat in with the water on at night. I always wait for the water to be turned off. I will then put in and motor up to Point Royal and float back down. I do have a gps on board so that I know where the channel is and can navigate safely down stream. I never mention the fog for the waders because I do not think that it is a big issue. In fact the more fog I feel the fishing will be better, and hopefully there is no one up that far in boat when the water is off. The only bad thing about the fog is that you can't see where any one is fishing. But a simple flash of the light and that problem is solved. Wrath, Like I told you on the Phone I don't think I would change my tactics just down size the fly that you would use up there for the big fish. In the fall I would use the exact same flies. In my opinion BIG FLY=BIG FISH. I'm not sure if I know what you mean by mind set unless is has to do with the stocking of the fish. Just remember just about everywhere in the USA there is a fish stocking program. I have the flies in a box with your name on them I wish that I could meet up with you this weekend and do some fishing, but we have to go north to visit the family. Michael

Sorry I type to fast for my thoughts. Everyone ERIC fished from 2 to the rebar.

Taney is on fire they have been shutting the water off around midnight for the past several nights. The water is falling pretty quick so fishing the fall has worked out real nice. Last night there were several people from the gang that were down there. I had a Friend up from Canton, GA. It was his first time to ever night fish and he is hooked. Brad had several fish that were in the 16-17 inch range. Brad told me that he counted 21 fish in a row for me, I was shocked I don't count. The biggest fish that I had last night was around 16-17 inches. Brad and I started out right when they shut the water off working our way down the gravel bar to the point and then down to the big hole by the time we got through the big hole it was 3:30. I was really wanting to fish up by the cable but did not make it up there. Eric said that he fished in between 1 and 2 and had about 50 fish. My dad started fishing while the water was on in front of 1 had 4 fish one of which Dwayne measured and it was a 20 inch brown, well actually dad said it was 1/4 inch short of making 20. When we were walking back up to the truck gathering everyone up my dad was fishing the gauntlet and and he said he was picking quite a few up as well. The flies of choice last night with the moon going below the tree line quickly making it pretty dark and foggy last night were the Ace of Spades, and Blood Red. My dad did say that he picked a few up on Evil Leprechaun. All were a size 10 Mohair Leech. Between the 4 of us we had over 200 fish. Michael

Greg that is who I was telling you about great hook up. randy really knows that area great. I cant wait untill we get to be fishing buds again.

ssttoopp it guys (LOL)

Like I said big top water flies work extremely well. In the summer time not so much in the winter not to say you won't catch fish on them they just work better in the summer. As far as the leader tippet goes at night throw it all out the window, I use heavy fluorocarbon at night usually it is about 10lb test in the summer and even larger in the fall. Cast your rod during the day with your eyes closed so that you can actually learn when and how the rod is loading. That is the key people try and cast to fast wind knot is next going home is next. It can be the most frustrating item in night fishing. If you can keep the knots out and flies tied on it will improve you odds of keeping the whole night thing up. Watch your drift during the day you know how you mend during the day do the same thing at night it is harder than hell to set the hook on a fish with a big bow in the middle. Remember this the straighter the line is the more hook ups you will have. When you want to swing a streamer at night get the line as straight as you can and let it dead drift down at the end of you'r drift thats when you will start stripping the fly line in. Keep your rod as close to the water as possible that will keep everything pretty well in a straight line. And a lot of time now when I set the hook instead of picking my rod up I will use the strip set. Everyone has made some good points I just pulled them out to explain at little more I hop that you don't mind. I have a nice play list ready to rock and roll. Michael

Night fishing Taneycomo I have been night fishing down at Taneycomo for well over 15 years maybe longer. And have seen people come and go, and people who go always will find there way back to the night time is the right time. One thing that I have noticed over the years is that the fishing is always about the same it is ether on or off. On the night that it is on you will catch 40-60 fish depending on how long your down there. On the nights that it is off you will catch maybe half that amount and have to work at getting them. My dad and I have night fished back in the day when night fishing Taney wasn't cool where we would catch 120 -150 fish between the two of us. With the night fishing growing in popularity it is though to have those night because some of the prime spots are taken. That is why I have done the home work and know spots and fish spots that no one will even consider to fish at night. Now I'm not trying to be big headed but the night fishing takes a little time and a little work to master. I usually will avg about 150 nights a year on Taney, with everything that happen this year I will not make the avg. There was one year that my dad and I were down there over 250 nights and what a year. I am pretty sure that I have cast everything including the kitchen sink at them to try and see if it would catch a fish. I used to try and keep mental notes and that got too hard for me to remember everything. So now I keep a journal and keep everything from the weather to moon phase wind direction, who was with me, to how many fish we caught and what we caught them on. I have been going over all of this and it seems that the conclusion that I have come up is just about everything that I have tryed has caught a least one fish on. OK maybe the kitchen sink didn't catch any fish but it was fun trying to cast that thing on my 3'2wt(LOL). We all have our favorite spots and will seldom move but in my own experience I will start at one end and work down to the spot that I want to end at and by doing this I have found some awesome spots between point A & B. I have had people watch us get ready in the parking lot and actually have people ask me where are going with all that gear. I try to always keep a sinking line like a type 2 or 3 on hand just because they are not running water does not mean you can use one. I have been known to cast a floating line in the shallows then put a sinking line in the deeper water , and when I say deeper water any water thats is over 4 ft in depth. And then there are all my boxes way too many flies to go over right now. When you see my fly box you might think that I'm crazy OK I'm sure that some of you already think that. Back to the main point I have top water flies all the way to the huge sculpins. Now the time of year will dictate what size flies that I will have on hand. For the general purpose of this summer time will yield the size to be 10-6 and the fall will yield the size of the fly to be 6-1/0. Two reasons for the dramatic size change, for the most part in the summer time there are a lot of fish in the area that are 15-18 inches there are a few over 18-24 about but they are few and far between. I will use the month of July as a feeler to see how I think the fall will be. In my years of fishing down there if you start catching a lot of Browns at night in July the fall we be good as in lat year I had 8 fish that were over 10lbs and one that pushed the 15lb mark. So to sum up summer time fishing and you want numbers fish small flies if you want to go after some bigger fish fish some bigger flies and you might need to move down stream. A lot of people do not know this but Taney is stocked the heaviest during the summer because of the add people down there. Now to the fall and the big stick time, I will have big flies and a big stick to be able to cast the flies. I will generally have in hand a 9'8wt. For two reasons the ease of casting bigger flies not to say you cant cast them on a 6wt. And for the ease of getting big fish in. When you catch these big fish as in 24-28 inch fish you want to get them as quickly as you can so that you do not harm them. Remember the reason that the big fish are coming up is to spawn. Now the MDC says that the fish do not spawn in Taney, that can be a whole other topic. However the MDC does come down a get the big fish and milk them so that they can continue to produce the fish in the hatchery. I will use a lot of articulated pattern's with stinger hooks in them. Two reasons for the articulated patterns is I can get a larger fly and not have to have a huge hook in the fly.; I will tie a bunch of articulated leech's that will have a number 4 octopus hook in it and the fly is 4" long the hook is only about 1" long. A lot of home work has gone into this information and this is only the tip of the iceberg. I have a lot of information that, I will be sharing , I am planing on having a hands on seminar for night fishing here in the next month. The seminar will cover a lot of stuff we will have to limit the numbers because I want it to be on Taney. It will not be the only seminar that I do that is like this. I will have several over the next month or two so that we all can get ready for a big fall. I only through streamers and only fish when the water is off. That is how I have done it for years I have had some people try and get me into nymphing at night no offense it's not me. I like the action of streamer fishing. I also believe that it is the most productive way to fish because you can cover more water at night whipping and stripping streamers. Starting to get busy must get to work now. See you all down ther tonight. I hope that this what not to long. Michael

Great fish Good to see you have your camera back(LOL)

Yes you are right after I got home and looked in my bug books from college that was going to be my conclusion. A #4 hook and some zap-a-gap would work real good.(LOL)

looks like either a stone fly or a dobson fly. still looking in to it. A dobson fly is a helgramite I am leaning toward a a stone fly though. I have no phd in bugs.

Old Stumbler has it made doesn't he Knee Deep

Sounds like a assassin bug there are a few different types would need to see a pic to know for sure. michael