duckydoty

There are two public conservation area accesses. One above town (Upper Wire Road Access) and one below town(Lower Wire Rd Access). You can also fish the creek along the city park in town and behind the baseball fields. Some small dry flies and some heavy nymphs to fish deeper faster water. Czeck nymphing is a great technique for fishing Crane in the deeper faster runs. Be very careful when approaching the pools you want to fish as not to spook the fish. Crane fish are not as line shy as most trout park fish, so you can get away with heavier tippet. That can be handy to pull them out of log jams before they wrap you around some logs and break you off. Good luck to you!

Anybody else hear about this being caught on Upper Bull Shoals either yesterday or the day before. Supposedly something like 23 pounds?

Great information bfishn and Scott. Thanks for sharing.

You talking shine or pie?

Nice catch!

I think I might try and make it.

Now that is what I call some awesome spring weather. Wish we would have got it down here.

Sounds like an epic adventure.

Great pictures. Out of a thousand or so pictures I take, only one or two turn out decent.

Where can we take it from here to be heard and not just shrugged off?

This weekend or next for sure.

Should be able to get them in the mail Monday or Tuesday.

Stick around on here and you'll learn a wealth of knowledge. Welcome to the forum.

Speaking of mailing flies, PM me your address. Got some simple ones I will mail you to try on your next trip down to Taney.

Nice crappie!

pretty hard to make caviar if it is illegal to possess the eggs.

Glad you enjoyed it. Personally, I have a hard time eating it. Too much intake during the summers. Nice to meet you and Champ there!

I like it a lot Mic! You should try the black shiny bead. I have found on Taney with the smaller midges the black shiny (black chrome) beads out perform the copper, silver and gold beads. I tie a simple size 18 and 20 black thread midge with the black chrome bead and now wire wraps the works very well at times. Wanted to get out this weekend and give the blue midge a try, but the weather has kept me off the water. End of next week is looking to be a little more conducive to fishing Taney a little more comfortably.

Watching the weather, tying flies, cleaning house, eating bacon and studying for my Coast Guard test is on my agenda.

It is a huge waste the way it is managed right now.

Great tutorial Marty! Thanks for sharing. Looks like a good fly for sure!

Welcome to the forum. I'm not familiar with that area, but I'm sure a few on here are. Hopefully they will chime in and give some of the advise you are looking for.

I for the most part just stayed in all weekend except for the OAF get together. Wondering how many of you got out and fished in this fantastic Spring weather? How did you do?

Welcome to the forum and welcome to Missouri. There is a lot to offer in this state. What area do you live in, what species do you like to chase and how far are you willing to travel to chase them?

It was great to meet everyone there. The food was fantastic! Thanks Phil for putting it together.