bigredbirdfan

I need help planning a trip next month on my first fishing trip to Minnesota. Really my first fishing trip north of Missouri. We are there for one week at a resort. We will either fish with guides or rent boats. I need to get geared up with the right tackle and find a guide or guides. Any help is greatly appreciated b/c a little homework makes for a much more enjoyable trip. Sincerely, BRBF

I just hope they run more than 1 stupid unit for 2 hours in the afternoon. The fishing is so much better if they run some water.

Why are this weekend's projected loads not available on the SWPA website as of thursday?

That there is funny, but....might just fire some folks up. Mr. Lennon made a little controversey himself then rode the peace train but it was too late.

A member of the forum and one of my best friends is in the hospital with major complications. He is a funny guy, a good dad, a real ozark outdoorsman with a great sense of humor. Any prayers you have to spare are appreciated. BRBF

I have a good friend in the hospital and if he were able to he would say screw the fly rods and bows I'm using dinomite

I'm just having a little fun. I really really appreciate all of the guides who donate their time and effort here to help out us guys who don't get to go all that often. I will definitely use one of you guys (or at least recommend you to someone) when I can scrape together a couple hundred bucks over guides who don't help out with reports on the forum.

What I really meant to say is some creeks (bull in particular) have deltas at the mouths and when the water is low they are really shallow.

It wouldn't take a genious to avoid reports that haven't worked all that well in the past and focus on one's that have. Quit frankly given the nature of their business (and the state of the economy and recreational dollars out the window) I'm surprised at the abundance of reports and information on here. Have you looked around at other bodies of water on here. Tablerock has the most "fishing reports" on this site particulary from guides. Maybe guides are available for a reason. To hire them for "guidance" and "specific instruction." Or if your a cheap person maybe you can learn on here which resorts they tend to work with or which ramps they like to launch from and show up in the morning when they pick up clients and follow them along for free for that day seeing exactly what it is that you are screwing up on your seasonal patterns.

Trolling For Walleye: I agree. How are we supposed to duplicate these exact conditions without the brand (and flavor for that matter) of granola bars? This could be the information I've been missing. Perhaps our frustration should be directed at the moderator? Must be his fault somehow. How about a few dozen PM's to solve this crisis? BRBF

I appreciate all the reports either way. I understand what Bill is trying to accomplish and why guides report the way they do. They are trying to be as inclusive on the entire lake as they can be. Why don't the knuckle heads that stir up all this mess just fish a few more of the suggestions and leave the keyboard be? Are people this hard up to win a weekend buddy tournament that they jump on the moderator's back when it doesn't specifically work for them? We now live in such an entitlement society it isn't even funny. The world owes me how to catch fish and when it doesn't I'll just cry and moan. There are more than enough reports and suggestions that a guy should have enough information without a specifice GPS point to go by. Wow. P.S.: Since there are sooo many of you who complain and rant, why don't you come on here and defend your behavior?

Yes. With 2 generators running you shouldn't have any trouble going anywhere on Taney. If no generation stay below fall creek and go anywhere you want. The creeks can fill your lower unit with sand if you get too shallow in them.

I am going to start bowfishing for carp and suckers on Taneycomo. Can anyone tell me more about it? There are a lot of these fish and it sounds like a lot of fun.

We have been doing really well by boat with sculpin, ginger, green and black and olive jigs. By boat the magic number is 4 & 1/2 foot of 2 lb flurocarbon vanish under your indicator.

Thanks. I've caught rainbows on the White River on Ginger 1/8 oz jigs with all the yellow paint gone off the head. My guess is the motion trips their trigger more so than the color.

I think I have a rather ugly jig in my tacklebox with some red tinsle in it. I believe it to be a PMS jig 1/8 oz. Is this the one you were using and how is it fished either fly rod or a spinning rod? Stripping it like a wooly? Thx BRBF

I think this is a very good reason for minimum flow at Taneycomo when water is available in TR. Just my opinion.

Isn't the danger not having a belt and the waders acting like a wind sock in the current sending you down stream?

Running at high speed 10 feet from the bow of your boat while you are parked. Trying to tear off their lower unit bc they don't even know what they are doing. Parking your boat where the channel is only 10 feet wide. Taking up the whole boat ramp when it should accomodate 2 trailers. Not having your boat ready to launch getting it ready on the ramp for 20 mins. Maybe I'm a picky person.

I fished this morning from 6:30 until 11 at lookout fishing jigs. The bite is real good early before the sun takes over. I wanted to launch at 5:30 but after watching the radar I held off to see if Branson was going to get the storms. Go earlier than you normally would and it will pay off. I boated fifteen fish on 1/16 oz jig bouncing off the bottom. The bite absoutly died at 10-10:30. Bright sun little to no wind and you could watch trout swarm your jig and flare off like ducks who see you in the blind. I left just as the idiots were taking over the lake. Slob didn't quite describe the fools on the water. I did land some nice fish in the 15-18 inch range. There were lots of people fishing off the bottom, don't know what success they had but I would guess the bottom bite was good. I guess if this helps one person it's worth writing a report. Haven't seen very many day reports so I felt inclined to write one. Look Out for inexperienced or outright bad boaters they have been everywhere lately.

jefly: Six pounds low viz green?? Thx BRBF

Sorry I can't offer any help/advice. I would like to try a topwater bite down there as well either morning or evening so I'm anxious to see if anyone replies.

Fished with two friends and another boat of friends for two days above fall creek. Here are my observations: It was very hot saturday. We fished 1/50 oz jigs with strike indicators. My advice to those who haven't used this method before is be mindful of the depth of the water. The jig cannot be high and off the bottom and out of sight to fish on the bottom and it can't drag the bottom either. So sometimes we needed 5 foot of leader material and others just a couple of feet. I was the only one who had any good results on the indicator after figuring this out. Also pink, scauplin and white where mentioned as good colors. We watched the boat next to us wearing out knots on olive green. I caught maybe 10 fish on the scaulpin and one was caught on pink none on white. The other boat switch to 1/8 and 1/16 oz jigs w/o indicators and did well one green and black poppint them off the bottom. Did I mention it was hot. Then today upon the recommendations at Scotty's trout dock I jigged 1/32 scaulpin jigs without indicators. I boated 30 fish with this method today. Besides what fun is bobber fishing anyway? The only reason we did it the first day was we had 3 people in my boat and didn't want a trip to Skaggs. The other boat fished bigger jigs bouncing off the bottom and the 1/8 green and black boated the biggest fish but I couldn't hardly keep them off my smaller green/ginger jig. What a day today was. I will try to post pics if they are emailed to me.

Aren't we all slobs? You ought to see my tackle boxes and my boat and my car. Some of you are worse than others. Pretty good report as well.

So I see the same kinda post on all of your tournaments. I might add a suggestion to your cause. Why don't you tell people who might not consider fishing your tournament how you guys catch 60 fish. Some people might just see how easy you guys make it out to be and decide they have a chance to win. 12-35 feet of water is very vague. Would also be nice to tell them how much money you pay out. Just suggestions. Don't mean to ruffle any feathers.