Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

No pics this time. Wish I had taken the camera this evening.

I wanted to see if I could find some crappie on Taneycomo so I headed out about 1 pm today. It had rained alittle, still cloudy, little wind. Nice. But by the time I made it to Powersite, the sun came out. Headed into a couple of cuts- very clear water and saw nothing but big carp. They ran from my jigs.

After a couple discouraging stops, I headed back up to Bull Creek where I knew a few spots. At least I could catch a few bass, maybe.

Found a shady spot on a cut bank before the creek turns to the north and caught one on a white jig. Then another. Thought I was into them. I ended up with 5 keepers from 11-13 inches. Threw back a few less than 11 inches. Couple of females mostly spawned out.

Up where the lake opens up to the big area where hunters hunt ducks- there's a couple of blinds up there- I caught a white bass. I worked it pretty good and ended up with 12 nice whites. Some had spawned out and some were half way through. All on white jigs.

This evening I was thinking about eating some trout for dinner. So I took a boat and pushed out of the stall- trolled to the middle of the lake and started fishing a 1/8th oz sculpin jig off the bottom. Let it go all the way till the line goes slack, then jerk it up and start working it. No wind so I could study the line- watch for premature slack in the line (stopping before it hits the bottom).

I drifted all the way down past Cooper Creek's dock. Caught 8 rainbows before I got to the pump house. Then something slammed my jig and immediately came out of the water, twice. This trout was thick like a linebacker and strong. It was a brown... another brown. Forgot to mention a gal caught (and released) a 22 inch brown caught in front of the resort today- Ryan weighed it- 5.5 pounds. Not sure what she caught it on. Mine was 18 inches but very heavy. Fun to fight.

Caught another 7 rainbows with one pushing 18 inches at the last. Man this lake is fishing good... I may not go above my place for quite some time now!

They are still running 20-30 MW or about 1/2 unit all day. Wonderful!

[ulua]

Wow!!!

[Gatorjet]

Great Phil.

Nick wants to take Mandy out with us when we come down. She's never been fishing for trout. It will be perfect for her first time. We can just fish from your place to Cooper Creek, and because of her "condition" :D Just take a slow ride back up.

[Fly_Guy]

Sounds rough. Real rough

We rented a jon boat from lilley sat on short notice, and all four of us caught limits in a couple of hours. Cousins wife had never fished- and she beat us all! We had a blast!! The fishing was pretty good - we caught fish anywhere we stopped.

Thanks for everyone who suggested Bull Creek as a good place to catch some smallmouth as well - we got in a couple of hours with 4 or so smallmouth a piece, and a bunch of goggleye. T'was a good Saturday.