Seth

I was told by Duane and Phil that there is no size limit on them in Taneycomo.

If I'm pitching to stuff like that, I'm using baitcasting tackle and at least a 5/16oz jig, but preferably 3/8 or 7/16. I want my jigs to stay on the bottom. The only exception would be a swim jig and then I'll go lighter than 5/16oz.

I used cedar and carpet when I replaced mine earlier this year, just to be safe. When I redo it next time, I will go with treated and a bunk covering like Gatorbak.

Stay above Boiling Spring. The fishing is great and you shouldn't have as much jet boat traffic to deal with. Once the water level at Jerome drops below 2', you shouldn't see hardly any jet boat traffic above Boilng Spring. Right now, the river is up and there is more traffic up that way that normal, but it's usually fisherman. The pleasure jetters that just cruise around all day usually stay farther down river from Nagogami on down to Vienna.

@Bluff-Bassin is a prostaff member that lives on Bull Shoals. I'm not sure if he could help you out or not. As far as I know, only a two tackle shops sell the products and they are located in Cuba, MO and Vienna, MO and that won't help you out if you're already down in the Branson area.

Lies! There are no big white crappie in Thomas HIll. Nice haul!

Should work fine with the water this high. When you reach the first island above Fall Creek (Lookout Island), just be sure to stay on the right side.

We used 4# for jigs and 6-8# for jerkbiats/crankbiats last weekend. My buddy caught most of his fish on a blade bait with 8# test. Line size didn't seem to matter much in the fast water.

When you guys are referring to backing up, are you talking about using the back button that is built into the browser or something that is specific to this forum? I'm on Chrome 99% of the time and have never noticed an issue with going back between the pages.

If he doesn't die from internal injuries caused by the fall from the top of TRD's gates, I'd imagine he will live out his days somewhere down the lake in Taneycomo or Bull Shoals. We have caught several "dorkfish" over the years that had lost their rostrum do boat props or whatever.

It was a good time. I enjoy catching trout, but being able to catch a variety of fish up near the cable made it even more exciting. You never knew for sure what you were going to hook next.

It doesn't hurt to have more than one browser. I like Chrome and Firefox. If you are having issues with one, try the other and see if they are still present. If things are better in the other browser, clearing out browsing data for the one that is giving you issues is always a good first step to try.

I still got the error when trying to upload a 2.8mb JPG, but was able to upload the small .PNG screenshot of the error from my iPhone.

The only issue I have noticed so far was just now. I was trying to upload a pic from my iPhone 6 and it was failing with a -200 error. I saved the photo to my PC and uploaded it from there without any problems.

Is this the right one? I kept getting some -200 error when I tried to upload it from my phone. Had to do it from the PC.

I'm calling Photoshop on this one. Since when do you catch anything that isn't brown?

Day 1 My buddy and I got down early in the afternoon on Friday. The first thing we did was run to the cable and noticed three flood gates were open. We caught several smallmouth, a couple nice whites and a 17" walleye between the cable and the island on the gate side while throwing shad raps, flicker shads and white jigs. Once we got below the island, my buddy was schooling me on trout with a blade bait. I managed a few on a white jig. Later that evening after the storms blew through, we went down and fished on the downstream side of Lookout. He schooled me with the blade bait, but I caught several on a white jig and the flicker shad. The biggest trout boated was a 15-16" brown that my buddy caught. Nothing big really. Day 2 We got on the water and up to the cable right as they sounded the alarm for the flood gates. The first drift on the gate side produced a couple smallmouth and a hook up with a 20-22" walleye, but sadly the hooked came unbuttoned on the walleye during the fight. Once the gates got to cranking, we stopped getting bit between the cable and the island, but did start picking up a few smallmouth, spots and whites on the downstream side of the island. About an hour and a half after they opened all of the gates, I was reeling my jig in and the rod loaded up with something heavy. A few moments later, I realized I had snagged a paddlefish in the rostrum! I'm guessing it had just come over the dam because it was pretty weak and had a freshly broken rostrum. It only took about a minute to get it up to the surface for my buddy to get a hold of it. It was about a 40 pounder. On a side note, we also noticed several paddlefish carcasses stuck in brush throughout the river that had come through the gates in the previous weeks. We picked up a few more trout on our drift down and decided to go fish Short Creek down to Lilley's. There were a few pockets that were holding concentrations of trout and we picked up several, but nothing real big UNTIL my buddy hooked into something heavy up by Short Creek..... After that, we pulled the boat out and went to eat dinner. We got done eating early enough that we put the boat back in and fished from Cooper Creek down to Monkey Island. Our "goal" was to throw big baits and try for another big fish. After doing this for a while, all we had to show was one swipe from a brown in the 18" range so we switched back to the blade bait and white jig and ended up catching several just before dark on the creek side of Monkey Island. Day 3 We got out for a few hours before heading home to try the crankbait deal that Doty was having so much luck with. Right off the bat, we doubled with a chunky 3# spot and a little smallmouth just below the first island. After that, we stayed out in the main current and drifted the cranks like Doty explained to us. We weren't doing something right because we watched them catch quite a few and I think we managed three little squirts on them. After doing that for a bit, we worked our way downstream. We picked up a few trout here and there, usually where there was a lot of brush piled up near the bank. I did finally manage to hook a 15" brown just above Lilley's on a countdown. The eddy just down and across from Cooper produced a few fish, but we really didn't get into a lot of fish until we got down closer to the creek across from Monkey Island. The 300-400 yard stretch above that creek was full of fish and they were all over the white jig. They were hitting it with authority as most of the bites felt almost "crappie like" with a good thump as the bait was falling. We kept two limits of 12-14" fish and called it a day before loading up and heading back home.

That will be hard to top! We had a great weekend as well. I'll throw together some video footage and post my report in the next day or two hopefully.

I wish i had known about that crankbait deal before this morning. We caught fish, but the quality, aside from the one, was nowhere near what you guys were catching! Congrats on all the lunkers!

We only caught three browns this weekend. Two around 16" and the 4.96. Did have one in that 18" range swat at my shad eap and miss right at the boat yesterday.

Two years ago I had some pretty good trips with them, but last year I didn't really throw them much. I always keep a few on hand though. I did wear out some really nice pond bass on a green pumpkin Strike King Rage Blade with a green pumpkin/chartreuse swimbait trailer the other day. I'm sure it resembled a bluegill. The spawners were knocking the tar out of it. I always liked the action of the Zman Chatterbaits, but the hooks are pieces of crap. I fish around wood cover most of the time on the rivers and it doesn't take much to roll the hook points. I've even had some with extremely weak hooks that were unusable due to straightening every time a fish was hooked.

Do you think they will maintain this flow through the weekend? Me and a buddy are planning on heading down Friday morning for the weekend. I need to get stocked up on my white and grey jigs before the week is through.

Our local Walmart had them for $3.88 and that was the normal price. I went ahead and bought the two that they had out and they both rang up at 3.88. These are $7.99 on Tackle Warehouse. Has anybody else seen these for this price at Walmart? I'm thinking it had to be a mistake. With that said, I will be checking for more in the near future. They seem to be built with better components that the regular chatterbaits, but I will have to fish them to verify this.

There was a couple anchored in the middle of the eddy up from the ramp fishing minnows right on the bottom and they could barely keep up with two rods. It was like that for them the entire time we were there. I can't tell you the last time I used minnows for crappie, but I wasn't wishing I had some that day.

Lots of shad along the look out wall. We got several and drifted cut shad for catfish for the first few hours and only had two bites. There were a lot of boats crappie fishing and catching plenty so we switched over to that. Crappie bit well on pretty well any color we threw. The key was getting the bait down near the bottom. We mostly vertical fished to avoid snagging paddlefish. They are extremely thick right now and it's almost impossible to throw across the current without snagging into one. We fished on the boat ramp side, but we saw plenty of crappie caught across from the ramp in the eddies.