Fishing Report - Friday Eve

[loo10]

Went down after work to get in a few hours before tomorrow's big draw-down.

BEAUTIFUL evening.

My wife Kathy went along for the ride.

I fished while she read a book.

It was nice to have the company.

Fog wasn't too awful bad and there weren't many others on the water; only 2 other boats including mine.

One of the boats was Phil's.

I believe he and Leonard were fishing jigs.

I think they were doing ok....I'll let them give their 2 cents if they want to.

Motored my Lund up to the cable.

Saw several fly-fishermen with fish on.

Quite a few fishing at Outlet One including a guy from Minnesota

who pulled in and had beached his boat there.

I bet the locals loved that.

Ha.....I guess it takes all kinds.

Long story short.

Caught about 10. 1 brown, the rest rainbows in about 2 hours or so.

Very colorful fish...lots of deep pink along their sides.

Biggest was a 17 incher pictured below.

Started with a gold cleo. Caught maybe 4 including my only brown.

Switched to a brown trout rapala & did better.

Released them all.

Had pizza at Luigi's in Branson before heading home.

Very good!!!

Summary....a wonderful evening catching some of the most beautiful creatures God ever created.

[Leonard]

Rich..

I think we did ok..

we made 3 good drifts and a short..

I believe phil and I caught fish on every drift...

I was using an olive jig...

started with a PMS and changed over to a meat whistle (tied on a 1/8 jig head)... should have done that back in april.. MAN did the like that thing!!

Id say we each caught 3-4 on each drift..

It was a blast..

Leonard

[twosets]

Al right Leonard.

Meat Whistle ??

Explain

[Greg]

Loo I was up near outlet one from about 5 to 8 PM. Saw several boats go by I'm sure one of them was you? My fishing for those 3 hours was OK although not the type I prefer. I couldn't get much action except right near outlet 1. Usually on high water I can do fairly well above or below outlet 1 or 2 but not last evening. Outlet fishing is just not my preference.

But that said I did take several very nice rainbows and browns right at outlet one. My first fish was a brown that was right at 21". Every single fish I took (maybe 10 total) was brightly colored and fought very hard. I was using a 2 fly rig most of the time and the hits were pretty even between a Y2K, zebra midge, and a scud.

I was there when those guys in the boat motored in and beached their boat. They didn't disturb me much but they literally came in right on top of a woman that was fishing there and more or less appropriated her spot. She just moved on. I'm not sure I would have been that gracious.

A good evening overall but I'm sure looking forward to the water going down. Hopefully soon!!!???

Greg

[Leonard]

Twosets....

the meat whistle is another one of John Barrs flies that I been playing with...

http://umpqua.com/pm-39-7-meat-whistle-barrs.aspx

Another that has been really good for Taneycomo is the bouface

http://umpqua.com/pm-29-7-gold-bead-bouface-barrs.aspx

Check out Johns new bbok... Barr Flies.. awesome book and alot of flies that can and probably has been usedd on Taneycomo..

http://www.barrflies.com/

Leonard

[Micheal Kyle]

I have had pretty good results with the Meat Whistle I got a couple sample flies 2 years ago from Cary Marcus, my old sage rep who is also the Umpqua rep. I have the best luck with the Olive. They are a very effective pat. for big Browns in the fall. I really fish it more on the White River though. Mr. Barr is a genius and his books are awesome very well illustrated and with the step by step patterns. If you don't have one you should get one.

Good Find Leonard!

Michael

[loo10]

Loo I was up near outlet one from about 5 to 8 PM. Saw several boats go by I'm sure one of them was you? My fishing for those 3 hours was OK although not the type I prefer. I couldn't get much action except right near outlet 1. Usually on high water I can do fairly well above or below outlet 1 or 2 but not last evening. Outlet fishing is just not my preference.

But that said I did take several very nice rainbows and browns right at outlet one. My first fish was a brown that was right at 21". Every single fish I took (maybe 10 total) was brightly colored and fought very hard. I was using a 2 fly rig most of the time and the hits were pretty even between a Y2K, zebra midge, and a scud.

I was there when those guys in the boat motored in and beached their boat. They didn't disturb me much but they literally came in right on top of a woman that was fishing there and more or less appropriated her spot. She just moved on. I'm not sure I would have been that gracious.

A good evening overall but I'm sure looking forward to the water going down. Hopefully soon!!!???

Greg

Greg,

I run the grey Lund with Honda tiller.

Next time you see me....give a wave.

Although if water levels drop,

I'll be a bit farther downstream or alongside you in waders.