Weekend At Taney

[Randall]

Well, I decided to make a Taney trip on Friday night around 9, left about 9:30 and waded in the water a little before 2. Needless to say, I was the only person on the water. I started out at outlet 2 stripping a black slumpbuster variant with decent success. I moved down to rebar still fishing the same pattern when i stuck a 19 inch brown that put up a solid fight. It was the biggest fish of the night, but my feelings definitely weren't hurt sticking 15"+ fish till dawn.

At daylight there were only a few other people around so I fished outlet 2 for a half hour or so and caught four pretty average fish before people started showing up. After that I randomly met a few other guys down there doing the same unplanned thing and we all just kinda hung out and fished for most of the weekend. We went down to the boat ramp and cleaned up for the rest of the day with streamers. It started out foggy, then it got rainy, then it got hot. At about 3 they turned on two units so we bagged it for the day and relaxed up at outlet 2, enjoyed a few cold beverages and watched the guys still fishing.

Earlier that morning, in the heavy fog, a couple people put boats in the water, but one guy was bowfishing. He was actually in the middle of the fishermen just upstream of the boat ramp and probably 30 yards downstream from me when I watched him loose an arrow. We saw a game warden later that night and told him about it but at that point there's nothing he can do.

Sunday started out a little on the dangerous side with the lightning so it wasn't until a little before 8 that we started fishing. Again, stripped streamers from the boat ramp area this time down to point royale with great results.

It was kinda fun doing the whole iron man/trout bum weekend. I slept a total of 5 hours between Friday morning and Sunday night, but it was an absolute ball.

One thing I noticed was the fish I caught this weekend looked a lot healthier and fought a lot harder than I've ever seen. It really surprised me. Granted I was fishing streamers but they were all really thick, aggressive, and engergetic.

[DoveTail]

Sounds like a fun trip. For the bowfishing, I don't think there is anything illegal as long as the gentleman is not shooting game fish (unless there is a regulation for no bowfishing on Taneycomo). If there is a regulation against it, take a pic and send it to the Game Warden or call Operation Game to stop it.

[bigredbirdfan]

I am going to start bowfishing for carp and suckers on Taneycomo. Can anyone tell me more about it? There are a lot of these fish and it sounds like a lot of fun.

[tippett7]

Who needs fly rods when you can shoot them with a bow. That's the change we need.

[Jeremy Hunt]

Randall,

Glad you hade a good time. I wish I could've been a part of it, but I was in Arkansas all weekend. When are you planning a trip back?

[jdixon]

I was down there on saturday from about 5:00am till the generators got turned on at 3:00, fished between boat ramp to pt. royal. It was definitly a weired day with all the fog, cool temps and rainy in the morning to sunny and hot. Saw the guy bow fishing at pt. royal and he seemed pretty selctive at what he was shooting at. I was alot less impressed with the two yawhos in the john boat flying around. They went passed me twice once at pt. royal and just down from boat ramp right before the generators turned on and both times they went no more than two feet from my indicater with speed. But other than the yahows had a good day nothing big but it was fun. Generators cut my day short, couldn't wait for water to go back down needed to get back to columbia at a decent time.

[Randall]

Jeremy, I felt kinda bad calling at 9 on Friday but you found out I was coming down about 5 minutes after I did. I really didn't expect you to be free but I couldn't come down without giving you a shout. How was the White? I heard you and Billy had a group throwing streamers, anything big?

I'm gonna make a trip down either toward the end of this month or during the beginning of August, depending on when my move-in date at the new apt is. I'll make sure to plan it out beforehand and give you some notice next time.

Jdixon, not sure which boaters you were talking about. There was the guy with his girl in a jet boat that didn't know what he was trying to do and then there were the guys in the boat that put in and went upstream from the ramp then on down early on in the day. Neither really bothered me but I did see both being a little inconsiderate.

[Jeremy Hunt]

Jeremy, I felt kinda bad calling at 9 on Friday but you found out I was coming down about 5 minutes after I did. I really didn't expect you to be free but I couldn't come down without giving you a shout. How was the White? I heard you and Billy had a group throwing streamers, anything big?

I'm gonna make a trip down either toward the end of this month or during the beginning of August, depending on when my move-in date at the new apt is. I'll make sure to plan it out beforehand and give you some notice next time.

Jdixon, not sure which boaters you were talking about. There was the guy with his girl in a jet boat that didn't know what he was trying to do and then there were the guys in the boat that put in and went upstream from the ramp then on down early on in the day. Neither really bothered me but I did see both being a little inconsiderate.

Randall,

Sounds good. We did manage to hook a few between 21-23 inches, but didn't get any to the boat. Throwing streamers is one thing, but getting them in is alot harder if you've really never hook anything big. You have to strip set and most people with a "trout hook set" fishing indicators are lost. Nobody take this the wrong way, but most people who want to throw streamers and tell me they know how, DON'T. It's a whole other ball game I promise. If I could've landed everything we caught in the last year on the white throwing big streamers, it would be SICK. If you're after big fish, the white is where it's at for streamer fishing. I would put that river up agianst any. About two months ago I hooked two over 30 inches, but lost one from a weak hook set and the other one took my fly line and backing. I couldn't turn him, he went for the fences. One more thing, YOU HAVE TO BE A GREAT CASTER.

[bigredbirdfan]

Who needs fly rods when you can shoot them with a bow. That's the change we need.

I have a good friend in the hospital and if he were able to he would say screw the fly rods and bows I'm using dinomite

[Randall]

I feel you on the trouble with getting a good hook set and keeping them on. It still takes concentration to remember to strip set. When its all said and done though, I'd rather fish a streamer than a nymph any day of the week. They're more fun to tie too.