Taneycomo Or Other Places Saturday?

[Al Agnew]

I posted this in the Taneycomo board but also thought I'd post it here...

My wife has to be in Springfield tomorrow (Saturday) and wants me to drive down there with her (a four hour drive), but I don't have to stick around during the day. Want to go somewhere and fish. I've never fished at Taneycomo, so was thinking of going there. I know about the trout tournament so I assume Phil and company will be very busy. Anybody else on here going to be fishing up by the dam and not in the tournament? Any suggestions or comments? Any place else I might consider? Where would you go if you had a short day, waders, and a fly rod?

[brownieman]

Don't know if it would be a good option for you unless you want to leave the fly rod at home but a little walleye fishing below powersite is generally fair this time of year. Not too far from Taney is my thinking.

Just a thought and a fresh mess of walleye would make for a good meal on a cold winter day.

bm

[bcfish]

You could go to Crane you will be fairly close. You will also be about 45 min from Capps. You could also make it to Bennett in about an hour or Roaring River will be a little over an hour.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Dang Al, I wish I would have read this post earlier. Even if we wouldn't have wet a line, I would have loved to wet my whistle and done a little jawboning with ya.

What did you end up doing?

[Al Agnew]

I drove down and visited with Phil for a short while, then went up to the dam and fished until close to dark. Lots of people, lots of small fish being caught. I caught some, nothing notable size-wise. I wasn't catching fish as regularly as some of the people I saw...must not have been using the perfect fly for the day! Beautiful day, though.