Fishing Report

[mo_bowhunter]

First off - I want to thank everyone here for all the advice and help with reports, recommendations and shared knowledge – I really appreciate it, and so did the guys fishing with me. It really helped us catch a ton more fish this year.

We fished Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. The temperature was pretty good, ranging from the low 40’s to around 50 – cloudy the entire time with pretty strong rain on Sat from noon till early Sun morning. I do not have the generator schedule - but the water seemed very low Friday afternoon with maybe 1 generator running. The rest of the time it seemed like two generators were running with water staying around the 705 level.

We tried just about everything – drifting, casting a few stickbaits, jigs and in-line spinners. The fish seemed to be hitting them all, size was very respectable with several fish over 18”. I was not specifically counting but I would guess we caught over 100 fish with half dozen are so being brown trout.

Drifting minnows, worms and Berkley eggs all produced very well from Fall Creek to down past Cooper Creek. We did not have as much success with the Rapala’s, In-Line spinners and jigs – although we were not very patient with trying the jigs for very long. The olive/brown 1/8 oz. jig worked best - the black jig got little action.

I cannot believe how few boats and other fisherman were on Taney this weekend, sometimes it seemed like we had the lake to ourselves. This morning we saw less than a handful of boats out fishing from 7 till 9.

Thanks again for everyone’s help prior to our trip – we had a great time and had very good success.