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Most of the fish were caught on the Forsythe side of Swan Creek between the clay point and the bridge. They seemed to be holding pretty close to the bank there.

Brian, again, Love the new approach to the tying videos. I get to bored with the real time videos and yours are going fast enough to keep me interested Now, if your taking requests, I'd like to see some full dressed classic atlantic salmon flies in this fashion, such as the green highlander........... Maybe show some technics on marrying wings and tips on proper attachment of gut eyes that still allow for a good base of wing attachment. It be nice to condense a 12 hour fly into about 10 minutes. I once sat in front of Dr. Stack Scovial for 6 straight hours watching him tie one fly. It was pretty painful but very informative.

nope. stopped at swan

Dang that was fast Phil. Did not take you anytime at all to get that up.

I looked in my fly boxes yesterday........seems like some of my flies are missing?????????

Bwaaaahaaaahaaaaa!!!!! Now that's just wrong TC

Hope you have a great time and some tight lines!

These are the must have for those special fly fishing women out there......you know, the ones that dont like the extra bulk and hassle of carrying around a fly box....problem fixed....extra flies right in the ear. The best thing, these are not put there by a wayward back cast... LOL! These were tied by my wife, and our fellow member, DD'sMC. She has been working very hard at making some of these the last few weeks.

The guys I ran into yesterday that faired well were throwing the A rig just above Flat Creek.

I have been asked a few questions recently about fishing Lake Tanecomo. After rereading all of my replies, I thought I would compile them and post them here for everyone. This information is just some of the things that have been productive for me over the years. They are not the only way to fish and not set in stone, but they are productive for me. Question..... "Do you fish big articulated streamers like Dungeons and such on Taneycomo? Do you catch more larger fish or are medium sized fish caught more often? What size tippet do you use?" I have fished T&A Rainbows on Taney during the fall brown run with success on both rainbows and browns. I dont normally fish the big articulated streamers though. I do most of my streamer fishing at night and mainly do sight fishing during the day. During the day after sight fishing all my favorite spots, I will play with some small streamers, wet flies, and even do some midging. During the day I will use 6x if I can get away with it, but most of the time, 7x. If I'm throwing the small streamers, like that minnow fly, I will bump it up to 4 or 5x tippet. It seems like on a fast strip, you can get away with bigger tippet. More of working on a reaction strike than a feeding strike. Sight fishing in the slower water, they have too much time to study it and you hardly ever get away with anything bigger than 6x. Night fishing, I mainly throw the streamers size 6 and smaller. 10's are probably may favorite, most productive sizes. The simple pine squirrel sculpins with a cone head work fine but pine squirrel does not come in white, so I use mink for that. I normally use 2x or 3x tippet at night. Leonards PMS, and Hybernators along with Mohair leeches are all great streamer patterns to use at night also. One thing to remember about night fishing......If you dont get a hit or a fish in 10 casts, you need to change it up. Change color, change fly, change stripping action. There are too many fish out there not to get a bite in 10 casts. I normally start with a black streamer on a dark night and a white one on a bright moon lit night. The first thing I change, usually withing 3 cast is my strip. Either a dead drift, to a slow strip with a pause between strips to short very fast strips. If nothing with in 10 casts trying all those stripping methods, I change color. Colors I carry in the different streamers I use are White, Grey, Olive, Black, Red, and Purple. Once I run through all those colors in a certain pattern, I then change patterns and start running through the colors again. Sometimes you can get lucky on a good night and put to hand over 100 fish. Most of the time Ill catch 15-30 in a night. I do not always just catch big fish. Most of them are average fish, but after fishing down there for several years, I have got spots that tend to produce bigger fish every now and then, so as you can imagine, I hit those spots everytime I go. Question..... What are your most productive daytime patterns besides your minnow fly? During the day, my most productive fly is the white chamois worm, midges, and sow bugs. As far as streamers other than the minnow fly...the pine squirrel cone head sculpins and white mink sculpins in a size 10. I normally will catch more fish on the worm, midges and sow bugs though. You might want to tie up some micro eggs because some of the bows are trying to spawn....match the hatch... Some crackle backs and some soft hackles can pruduce just as well as the streamers during the day also. Like I said, I only throw the streamers during the day when I get bored with the other stuff Question..... Where do you buy your chamois? Are the midges just generic zebra-type midges? You can get the chamois on eBay. It has to be white sheep skin that is very thin for doll clothes. My 4 favorite midges are zebra, rusty, prim rose and Pearl, and solid black. Question..... What are the best flies to use if there is higher generation and the best way to rig them? On high generation, if fishing the bank, I use White Chamois, Sow Bugs, Micro Eggs, San Juan Worms, and Midges. Favorite to least in that order. There are alot of places you can still make your way down the bank with up to 3 units on. I use lots of weight to get it down fast. Sometimes up to 4 number 4 split shot. I place the split shot about 12 inches above the flies. Now on the midges, of course you would not use any weight. I only use the midges when I can see lots of fish rising in the seems and eddies close to the bank and then will put one on about 12 to 18 inches under the smallest indicator I can get. Most of the fish will hold close to the bank during generation so you dont need to cast out very far. Work the close seams and eddies within 10 feet of the bank. If I can see my flies on the short drifts, I will not us an indicator. If I can not, then I will put the indicator on. I love fishing down below outlet #2 with 2 units on. The water is perfect for fishing that bank under 2 units of generation. Just below outlet #2 is a tree that hangs out over the water with 2 units running. From that tree down, within 6 feet of the bank, usually holds lots of fish. There is a nice eddie just below the tree and then some giant boulders that create great fish holding eddies also. You can also drive over the dam and get acces to the south side. The back side of the Island is a great place to fish during generation also.

Seems as though the Taxedermist might be a great place to hang out and wait for poachers

Glad you got on some fish Russ. Sorry I could not make it yesterday. Gonna have to get over there and fish with you one of these days. Oh, and hey.......Did you see the size of that coon???????

Fished from Taylor Shoals all the way down to Long Camp or the old 3 dollar holler today and not a white to be seen. They were way down below the area we fished today. Ran into a fella that had a bunch of them. He braved the white caps and wind further down below where we were fishing and faired well.

There is some good king fishing on the Alagnak that time of year also

I got that from Tim's Flyshop. Tear mnder might work.

I dont normally target the small mouth, but I sure have a hard time keeping them off my line while chasing the white bass. Seems like every year I'll catch 2 or 3 of them on the long rod that are pushing 4 pounds along with several that are 14 inches or smaller. I usually catch them using a 12 ft. sinking leader on clousers late March and early April. Have not spent a summer here in 5 years, or else I would probably target them more.

Right around the 1st week of April has usually been the peak of the run, of course, depending on weather. Beaver Creek is very close to that camp ground along with the pothole. The camp ground usually seems like it has a few open spots that time of year too. Keep watching the forum and you'll know when it starts to get hot down there.

I get the core thread to burn and that has been working for me. That is also why I have been tapering it before burning so I dont get just a wad of melted material at the ends.

Yes you were fishing the rebar hole and that would have been my buddy, Ryan, me and the guy that wanted to keep the fish asking if you had the tape measure. He sure wanted to keep that fish bad. I kept having to tell him to put it back down in the water so it can breath while we figured out a way to see if it was legal for him to keep it or not. That hole can be tough to fish sometimes. Making sure you have enough weight to get the fly down is probably the biggest issue there.

Great fish! Streamer fishing is exciting. What size tippet were you using with the streamer? I normally have to bump it up to 4 or 5x when throwing the streamers during the day.

Yes you have. Thanks for showing that to me Ralph. Tim keeps asking me if I've been trying it out. As you can see...it works on Taney just as good.

Here is Megadon the white Mega worm. It is made with a super soft giant chenille about 3/8 inch in diameter. Once tied on hook, I trim the top down to make it more of a flat worm and taper the ends.

I'll get a picture up today

Rick, Roaring River opening day report. Crowded. We got there at 2 a.m. and were the first ones there. By 4 a.m it was gettting hard to find parking spots. At 630, elbow to elbo. Fish bit good for 10 min. on anything you threw. Crowds thinned by 10 and still a few good fish to play with. Brother Dave picked up a good one after I failed 2x on it, Had a good time but was tired of it by noon.

Took a buddy fly fishing on Upper Lake Taneycomo today. This was only his second time fly fishing, and we were working on sight fishing techniques. He was using a white chamois worm and I was trying out Megadon, the white mega worm today. We started working the shallow bank below outlet two down to the stairs looking for fish and casting to the ones we could see. This was tough today due to all the wind. The water surface was rippled bad and it was hard to make the fish out. We could make out a few shadows here and there, so we would lightly toss the worms in the general vicinity of the shadows. It was a little easier to see the white worms under the water and we would just let them sink to the bottom and sit. After sitting for two or three seconds, we would just give it a twitch and let it sit again. Sure enough, after a twitch or two the worm would disappear. Set the hook, and fish on! We picked up several fish each down the bank and then headed to the riffle above rebar. We would just let the worm roll over the edge of the shoal there and as soon as it was in deeper water, fish would pick it up. My buddy stayed at the shoal for a while and I moved down to in front of the tree. I picked up a few more fish there, then spotted a big boy laying just behind that little shoal. Worked him a couple of times to no avail, then my buddy hollered at me. I headed back up to him to make sure everything was alright,. Seems another gentleman had caught a decent sized fish and wanted to measure it. He was sure it was over 20" and this being his 1st time fly fishing, wanted to take it home. I told him I did not have a tape measure but was pretty sure it was under 20". I then told him that I did have a dollar bill and that was 6 inches, so using that we could get a rough estimate of how big it really was. He agreed, so out came the cash. The fish was 1/2 inch over 3 bills long.....not quite 20" Great fish for first time fly fishing though. After that little fiascle, I headed back to the toad I had seen earlier. I caught another flash of him and started making drifts down into his lair with "Megadon" the white mega worm. On the 3rd or 4th drift, the worm vanished from sight and the line went tight! Just a few minutes later, a couple of pictures and the pig was release back to the water to battle again. After that nice one, we headed to the flats between one and two and fished the shallows there. Both of us picked up 5 or 6 more fish each then at 6 p.m. the water was turned on and our game was over. Had a great day out there and my buddy, Ryan, seems to be a natural at this fly fishing thing. Tim Homesly.........Megadon works very well!