Nice Rainbow Caught This Am Up By Trout Hollow

[Phil Lilley]

Campus Crusade boys fish here quite a bit in the summer. They've learned how to fish jigs over the year... and now you see why.

Caught this in front of Trout Hollow is the word.

The girls got the pic but didn't get a name or the color of the jig. They're trying to get both right now.

This is a gut fish... probably has been under Trout Hollow's dock pigging out of guts all its life. We have the same rainbows under ours.

Not taking anything away from catching it... it takes alot of skill and alittle luck to land one of these guys.

[JONBOY]

So you are telling me that the trout do feed off of guts down in Taney? Do a lot of people clean fish down there? I am trying to figure out whats good and not good... heading down there this weekend. Thanks

[Phil Lilley]

Guts should figure into your plan... can't use them as bait- against the law.

Yes alot of trout are cleaned on our docks. The parts are thrown into the lake and trout eat them

If you're looking for a plan it's easy- fish with night crawlers from Fall Creek and you'll do good. Read the articles I've writing on bait fishing- or jig fishing if that's what you want to do.

Fishing is pretty darn good right now.

[Zack Hoyt]

I have to take a weekend and head your way Phil. Grew up in Harrison and never once fished Taney....let the flogging begin.

[JONBOY]

Guts should figure into your plan... can't use them as bait- against the law.

Yes alot of trout are cleaned on our docks. The parts are thrown into the lake and trout eat them

If you're looking for a plan it's easy- fish with night crawlers from Fall Creek and you'll do good. Read the articles I've writing on bait fishing- or jig fishing if that's what you want to do.

Fishing is pretty darn good right now.

Thanks for the info, I have a gut fly pattern that I was wanting to try out, but I didn't think that many people cleaned fish in Taney. I will have to use it this weekend and see what I can come up with.

[Phil Lilley]

I'd stick with the normal bugs... unless you're dropping it next to a cleaning sink. That's not very sporting, IMO.

We won't let guests fish near our sinks.

[zsmith62]

Thanks for the info, I have a gut fly pattern that I was wanting to try out, but I didn't think that many people cleaned fish in Taney. I will have to use it this weekend and see what I can come up with.

Around here, the only place where a gut fly is gonna have any real application would be up at Bennett Springs, where people also throw they're gut piles in the stream. Read this section: http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.php?s...96&hl=flesh

[Fly_Guy]

Match the hatch! If they're eating fish guts, throw a fish gut fly! At the trout parks, I throw a little brown pellet cut from the foam of a flip-flop sandal. However, you'll only find the fish-gut eaters around the fish cleaning stations. I bet they are tasty though! - that fish looked fat! I'm still waiting for Lilley to take down his "no fishing in or behind the dock" sign...I'll be eating good that night!!

Speaking of not very sporting!... Wife and I went to florida off the coast of Daytona fishing for sharks and tarpon (caught a 150lb tarpon, and several sharks longer than my wife:D) However, this "world class guide" merely took us out behind a shrimp trawler, netted a discarded fish, and had us chuck it in the boats wake! It was fun hooking up, but seemed a little unsporting. Of course, when a tarpon bigger than my wife is jumping 3 foot into the air, you tend to throw "sporting" to the wind. Not knocking the guide - he put us on fish... but still... It was fun though - we saw dolphins about 3 feet from our boat, eating the discarded fish. I asked the guide if he'd ever accidentally hooked one. He said "once" and didn't talk about it.

The funny part is, he let the tarpon off next to the boat w/out pictures! And when my wife asked (and she didn't know any better) if tarpon were good to eat (even though we weren't planning on keeping it), he looked at her like she was nuts and informed us that tarpon were protected, and a very prestigious sport fish. He seemed to think we were real missouri hillbillies, but I wanted to say..."Uh.. we just caught this protected prestigious sport fish behind a shrimp boat using a dead fish, and you're judging us because we asked if tarpon was good to eat?!!"

Anyway, got off topic. sorry bout that.

[Jeremy Hunt]

Can you say "football"...and it's a female. WOW. Great fish! You don't see them like that to often.

[denjac]

The funny part is, he let the tarpon off next to the boat w/out pictures! And when my wife asked (and she didn't know any better) if tarpon were good to eat (even though we weren't planning on keeping it), he looked at her like she was nuts and informed us that tarpon were protected, and a very prestigious sport fish. He seemed to think we were real missouri hillbillies, but I wanted to say..."Uh.. we just caught this protected prestigious sport fish behind a shrimp boat using a dead fish, and you're judging us because we asked if tarpon was good to eat?!!"

Anyway, got off topic. sorry bout that.

Did he at least pop off a scale and run the tarpon flag up on a pole?