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Wow, that seems pretty low. Looks like we won't have to boat too far from the dock this weekend.

Thanks sms_alum, we would really like to fish it and may chance making reservations later this week while we're at Lilleys. We should be able to keep warm enough if the fishing is hot. My luck is having a foot of snow fall the day before.

I'll be down Thursday thru Monday this week as well. If I understand it right, boating should be pretty much OK from Fall Creek on down. I put in at Cooper Creek as well and will be staying at Lilley's.

Looks mighty cold in some of the pics from last year. How many of you here usually fish in this? My 10 year old son wants to do it as well as I, but I don't know about trying it. My biggest worry would be the road conditions that time of year. It's almost a 200 mile drive for us there. I've been debating on reserving a room for that weekend but am afraid the weather will turn bad and we wouldn't be able to make the drive plus be out the expense of a reserved room. Decisions, decisions.

Thanks Phil, can't wait to get down there and give the fishing a shot. The part I was kind of concerned with was near the short creek area since it seemed pretty shallow there in a couple of spots.

The family and I will be coming down and staying at Lilley's on October 27th-30th. Bringing the boat again and just wanted to know what this may mean as far as boating? We usually don't go above Fall Creek. Also, what can we expect as far as the fishing that time of year since we've never been there any other time except summer. Thanks, Chris

Could have been corn. I've seen several of the old time fishermen doing it before.

Just checking to see how the tournament went and if there were any lunkers caught. We had planned to fish in it but our school district decided to have the first day of school on the Thursday before the tournament so we had to come home. Fishing seemed a little harder this year compared to last. We didn't catch the numbers of fish but 4 of the fish I did catch were between 2 1/2 and 4 lbs. Just made reservations at Lilley's to come back down on the 27th of October and try our luck again.

I just hope no one gets hurt and property loss is at a minimum. Though it's the last thing anyone is thinking about right now, how will this affect the boating/fishing this summer?

Beautiful fish.

The family and I went down in August and I had the same dilemma. I had never taken a boat out on Taneycomo except once I rented one and didn't stray far from the marina for fear of hitting underwater obstacles. Again this time I was afraid and we reserved a rental boat for one day, just because I was too afraid to try boating there again. I later decided against it and decided to take my own boat and use the money we had paid to reserve a boat and rent a stall instead. It was the best decision made, hands down! It was wonderful to walk down to the marina and jump in the boat anytime we felt like it and we had a ball out there, even though it was a little on the hot side. We still didn't go all that far from where we were docked because we really didn't have to. We lodged just below short creek and motored up to fall creek then drifted back down below Lilleys. Most of the time we didn't even go that far, again because we caught plenty of fish right where we were at. My 9 year old son caught a beautiful 7.5 lb rainbow right at short creek. My advice is to do as I did. Go slow and watch where the other boats go and follow them if you don't hear them hitting rocks. Ha Ha. But believe me we saw and heard numerous boats hitting rocks. When the water wasn't running it was so clear the I would watch the bottom on the drift down and take notes of depth and obstructions underwater. Go ahead and take it down with you, you'll be glad you did. Good Luck, Chris

Caught one myself a couple of weeks ago. Notice one of Phil's sculpin/orange jig's brought this beast in.

Hey Phil, As soon as you know the date for next years tournament, could you contact me. I'd like to schedule a trip to Taneycomo around the same time and try to fish the tournament if school hasn't already started for the young uns. Thanks, Chris.

Conratulations to all who competed. I'd loved to have been able to fish your tournament and help support my brothers in blue.