Posting My First Fishing Report

[Gallagher]

Don & I made a late afternoon trip down to Taney, got in the water around 4:30'ish & the fish seemed to take a variety of things they were presented with. We were in the vacinity of outlet #1,.. or maybe it was #2, sorry not sure which, but we were just up from that point, below the dam. They seemed to hit pretty good on a #16-#18 Grey Scud, I later swithed to a Shimp Scud of the same size & they hammered that as well, when things tapered off a bit Don was getting some serious hits on a short quickly stripped soft hackle which turned out to be very successful, during this time I was introduced to Kevin, one of Don's buddies & he was having great luck with what looked to be some sort of a chrome beaded head red something or another with legs, (sorry Kevin for the poor description) , but it worked great & he shared one with me, (thanks)! We wrapped up the afternoons' event by wading the shallower water below that point & drifted as we went. Don was able to bring 27 to the net, I was able to net 7, 3 more spit the hook on the way to the net, and I did manage to carefully miss several strikes . All in all a great afternoon!

Thanks again to Don for sharing his knowledge, patience & expertise with showing a new guy the ropes. And Thanks again to Kevin for the invite for night fishing!

[FishinCricket]

Cool, good report.. Are you new to fly fishing as well?

Oh, and where's the pics? LOL (gotta have "fish porn" with the report)

[Gallagher]

Yeah,... fairly new to flyfishing. I got geared-up & started the year before last, only went a few times, then last year was pretty much a washout with all the rain + busy work schedule, so I'm trying to get my hand back into it. As for the pics, I believe Don snapped a few but they were from a distance, I'll hit him up about those soon as see what he has.

[ozarkgunner]

Yeah,... fairly new to flyfishing. I got geared-up & started the year before last, only went a few times, then last year was pretty much a washout with all the rain + busy work schedule, so I'm trying to get my hand back into it. As for the pics, I believe Don snapped a few but they were from a distance, I'll hit him up about those soon as see what he has.

Cool, thanks for posting!

[Don]

Great report. I had a blast. Thanks for going Gallagher. It was a pleasure fishing with you. You caught fish by several methods and tactics. I'll let you know when I can go again. It was good to see Kevin show up. It was a great day to get out, good weather, good company, no generation, and people were catching fish everywhere. Kevin, aka Troutdawg, stayed and fished after dark. I haven't heard a report from him since we left.

Don

[tippett7]

I was fishing directly below you guys. I was in the white hat. Welcome to the forum. Do you live in Branson. I will try to be down there next Saturday if I can.

[Gallagher]

Good job on the pics Don. Thanks for posting those!

Gallagher