Daily Taneycomo Ramblings

[Phil Lilley]

Well... I've taken up Facebook and I like the way I can post on my account and it goes out to most of my "friends" news feeds. I started accumulating friends who have "fishy" profile pics and so far I'm up to almost 1500 friends. The cool thing about this is that I've visited with lots of anglers from all over the world that I never would have if it weren't for facebook.

I don't play games... I block 'em.

In saying that, here on the forum, I don't like to start new topics just to make an observation about my lake, what I see and what I think about what I see. Like this morning... last nights rain muddied up the lake. They ran water earlier than scheduled and now it's cleared up.

So I thought I'd try this... going to pinned this topic and let it run. I won't post fishing reports here, only short observations and thought.

We'll see how it works out.

Now, after working a commercial sander on my deck for the last 2 hours... I'm going fishing.

[Phil Lilley]

Back from fishing. Not going to do a report cause I spent most of my time messing with a few rainbow that were taking something off the surface in some dead water below the dam. I tried several dries and dropped some midges below the dries and nothing bit. Had some lookers.

This place is where I see big browns in September. I saw none. Suckers and rainbows.

I did work a white jig along the north bank down and caught one 14 inch brown. Another drift produced 3 rainbows on a sculpin 1/8th oz jig.

Did go to the cable looking again along the north bank. Lots and lots of trout, mainly rainbows, from the cable to outlet #1. Some in the mouth of the outlet and then pretty sparse from there down, that I could see. They were running 2-3 units pretty good and it was getting dark so my vision wasn't that good and the bottom is dark thru there.

Water temp 50.

[Phil Lilley]

Looks like they're going to run it tomorrow about the same as they did today. One early building to 2 mid day and 3 late afternoon-evening.

[Phil Lilley]

Haven't been rambling...

Lots of generation for this time of year. They can do it cause the water temp is low (50) and the DO isn't that bad. The trout weren't catching below the dam on down are strong and fight fairly hard... not winter or springtime hard but not sluggish like they could be.

Looks like they're only going to run one tomorrow all day... that's nice fish water if you're in a boat. Wading below the dam, well that's not too bad. You can wade the edges and get out of the big bar below outlet #3. I'd look before you wade out too far- those trout probably will be hugging the banks.

Look out for people in camo boat blasting tame Canada Geese tomorrow am... esp a AK renegade and his crew down by Lookout. Tomorrow is opening for goose season and they're thick - right Duane? They've been scouting them the last couple of days.

Feathers will be flying.

What do you think about the sunshine??? Talked to alot of anglers today including some guides that said fishing was really tough. You saw the stocking boat online yesterday... there's lots of trout. Vince said they were biting their jigs short. Not sure why they bit our night crawlers so well and not others today. But that's fishing. They'll bite better tomorrow... for someone. Hopefully for Brad and the OSU crowd.

[Phil Lilley]

Oh yea- found several small craw dad's in the rainbows I cleaned today. These were about 1/2 inch long. That's a first for me.

[duckydoty]

Coast should be clear after about 9:00 a.m.. Should have limits by then. You'll have to come over for some goose poppers marinated in Mountain Dew and rolled in bacon. We like bacon!

[Phil Lilley]

Talked to Clint, manager at the hatchery yesterday. He said they've had about a dozen browns move up the ladder to the hatchery so far. That's great news for them... and news that there are more browns moving.

Duane said they did good last night fishing the bank from outlet #2 down, landing several browns over 20 inches. They're going again tonight... hopefully they'll have a good report for us in the morning!!

[duckydoty]

They shut the water off at midnight last night. There was only about 1/2 of a unit running when we got there at 10:30 and the North bank was very fishable all the way down to the steps by outlet 3. A new fly produced very well last night catching a 21" brown right off the bat. Caught several rainbows of quality size fishing the water falling after midnight all the way down to Big Hole. Fishing really heated up down at the big hole after the moon set behind the bluffs and stayed hot till about 3:30 a.m. Caught several fish on this new minnow pattern just drifting and stripping. The fly has a marabou tail, dubbed body, and pine squirrel collar with a cone head. 3:30 a.m. the fish shut down and we could not buy a bite. Finally gave up at 5:45 and headed home. Had the whole place to ourselves last night. Hard to believe this time of year??? Whats going on people????

Seeing lots of nice sized browns, but no real monsters yet. Hope the water continues to get shut off at night every now and then.

[tippet7]

Caught several fish on this new minnow pattern just drifting and stripping. The fly has a marabou tail, dubbed body, and pine squirrel collar with a cone head.

pictures? tying instructions??

come on ducky...is this one of those "secret" flies???

[duckydoty]

pictures? tying instructions??

come on ducky...is this one of those "secret" flies???

No secrets with me. I gave the materials already. Still have not found my camera upon returning from Alaska????? I'm just kind of handycapped with pictures for instructions right now. Marabou Tail in white, dubbed body in white then flashy red, grey pine squirrel collar and a conehead. Add lead wire wraps for more weight in running water.