Lodging Specials At Lilleys

[Phil Lilley]

We just sent out a resort newsletter via email yesterday to our guests offering lodging discounts for the next 2-3 weeks.

Half-Price Christmas Special: Dec. 15-22 on all rooms and boat rentals –

for everyone!

(We are also still offering 25 % off rooms Sunday through Thursday up until

Dec. 18.) Come finish your Christmas shopping and tour the light displays

around town and at Silver Dollar City while catching a few trout, too. We

also can mail out gift certificates the same day you order them or make

them while you wait in the office.

We have some rooms left between Christmas and New Years.

Call the office at 1-800-284-2196 for availability and reservations.

http://lilleyslanding.com

[sek-surveyor]

You enticed me. I will be there with my family on the weekend of Dec. 20.

Thanks,

DR

[cahlert]

We're spending our second New years with you...be it that we're coming up on the weekend this year.

Chris and Barbra

[Thom]

Phil:

We already are scheduled to spend three days Christmas week and are looking forward to it. we got a confirmation call today this AM. It is always a pleasure and great outing to stay at the Lilley's. Among the best managed resorts and fly shops in Branson area and right on the Lake.

The Harvengt's and Sanders

[LWD]

I decided to take advantage of Phil's half price, slow time of the year, special. My wife and I were going to be in the area anyway, and this made a compeling argument with my wife, to stay a couple of nights at Lilley's and for me to squeeze in a day of trout fishing. My wife loves all the Christmas lights and displays at Silver Dollar City so we spent the first day there, and I got the second day for myself. Well, I guess my wife could say the same thing since she got to go shopping without me. As it turned out, I didn't get to make it a full day fishing because of the cold front that rolled into the area on Saturday along with the blustery winds. The cold I can handle, but fighting the arctic express made it really miserable. Getting a later start than I wanted to, I headed out in one of Phil's half price boats about 09:00. Making a bee line straight to Fall Creek, I tossed out a nightcrawler and almost immediately caught a nice 14 inch rainbow. Out to catch meat for my sister and brother in law, I put it on my stringer and went for more. I caught about 8 more fish, including one nice 17 inch brown, all on nightcrawlers. I kept 3 of the nicer bows and decided to go back and clean them, that allowed me to go try out the trophy area. I went to the cable and drifted back, the water was running slow, and the fishing was too. I didn't bring my fly rod on this trip, and I'm a spoon person so I tried several varaties of them, with limited success. I didn't have much luck with jigs or spinners, so I went back to my favorite spoon, a Walmart Renegade (hey, don't knock it, my friends and I have had a lot of success with that spoon over the years :-) and I caught about 10 nice sized rainbows with a fair amount of work. I drifted back below Fall Creek and switched back to bait, and caught about 6 more fish before whimping out. By this time I had my fourth trout to complete my limit, the cold front was rolling in, and I got tired of fighting the wind. I saw about 6 boats the whole time I was out, and this was on a Saturday. I didn't tear up the fish, but I had a decent day and enjoyed it very much. Hopefully this half price offering brought in enough business to try it again in the future.

Larry