Fishing Report

[nitro_fish]

There are some excellent guides at Taney. If it is your first trip it would be worth every cent + a nice tip to have one take you out. Be sure to call a few weeks early because these guy's do an excellent professional job and are sometimes not avaliable if you wait too late. Check with the local fly shops or PM me if you want a recommendation of 4 or 5 great guys by reputation and character who will put you on fish and show you a great time.

Thanks, I will do that. I wish i had more chances to get down there, but work wont allow it. I figured Oct would be a good time.

[crappiefisherman]

So back to my question of whites in roark.Are there any showing up?Are there any crappie of any size to be caught? I am thinking it may be the only close fishable water I can travel to.Has anyone been under the state highway bridge and seen any whites or even suckers?Are there trout up to roark resort?Are there any sunken brush piles where all the old docks used to be?Just how deep is that creek?thank you in advance

[Phil Lilley]

Sure ask alot of questions... some I'm reluctant to answer in public

Don't know about the bush- water is too dingy. Yes there are trout up past the resort. Don't know about suckers. Whites/??? who knows when. I've only heard of a few males during the day.

You're just going to have to go and report back to us.

[Trav]

I guess so Thom.

[Jeremy Hunt]

Overall Report for Taneycomo

923.5 Table Rock Lake / 713.1 Taneycomo

5 flood gates and max (4) generators online steady. Scheduled to run until April 8th.

Fishing conditions,

The lower section is fishing better than right up at the dam. Current seems to slow down as the river gets wider starting at the houses at Point Royale all the way down to Fall Creek Resort. Fishing along the banks is probably the best bet for hooking fish on a consistent basis (the bank the houses are on). Plan on hooking bottom occasionally to get fish, but worth the gamble for sure. Were fishing anywhere from 9-12 feet for the most part with two AAA split shot on 4x fluorocarbon. Fishing midge patterns deeper where you see submerged trees are catching a few, but not like fishing deep.

Flies of choice,

To be honest with you, throwing big red san juan worms in the standard chenille fishing on a size 12 hook is out producing everything else fly wise. The water is still dingy so make sure you throw flies that they can see. I’ve also done well fishing sink tip stripping white and gray double bunnies. Cast to the bank and let it sink a little bit, then start the strip.

Where do you think the best place to fish is if you had to fish Taneycomo?

Roark Creek hands down. A lot of trout holding in there right now. I’m sure it has something to do with getting out of all the current. The water is a little more clear the shallower you go if fishing with a fly rod. We’re catching the most on olive streamer patterns in a size 6. The sink tip were using is 9’ 3.9 IPS in shallow water and 7.0 IPS in deep water. The water still a little too cold for the white bass and crappie, but once it warms up I’m sure that it will be “HOT”. Best fly to use is smaller clouser minnows tied up differently from unweighted to heavy and from bucktail to the softer materials. Also tie up several color combo’s depending on the water you’re fishing.

What’s the rub?

A lot of boats sharing this one area so it can get crowded, but the area I would go that you will hardly see any boats is right at the start of the mouth. A lot of these boats are bass boats and pontoon boats that have a hard time getting way up. Flat bottoms with small motors definitely have an advantage and to be honest with you, that’s where all the fish are anyways. We caught over a hundred the other day without ever moving. Plus the water was shallow so we were putting the fly right in front of them where the could see it. I’m sure now it’s back to being dirty form all the rain we got last night, but once it clears up I’m sure the results will be the same.