Fishing Report

[Bill Babler]

Fished taney the last couple of days with varing degrees of success no matter where I fished.

Saturday I had 3 regulars that love a good trout bake and boy did I have trouble coming up with one. Anytime you are looking only for trout to eat and really nothing else, its always a stretch.

Rumor had it that there were fish stocked in the Branson area last week and late this week, but no matter what tricks I tried we could only come up with 9 total in the lower section and 6 suckers. Water temp at Branson was 72.

Moved up to the bait holes below fall creek and came up with the rest of their limit but I am sure glad it was 4 each instead of 5. Water temp was 49.

Can't even describe the size of the fish I cleaned as they were so small. Narrow no meat silver bullets about 8 1/2 to 10 inch.

I'm sure glad we dropped the limit to 4 fish per day so we could stock a higher quality fish. It's really worked out. NOT.

Sunday, I fished late in the restricted zone catch and release. Much better.

Lots of quality bows in the 12 to 15 inch size but you had to know what you were doing to capture them. We switched flies and moved continusly. If you caught a fish in a spot you were done. Simply move about 30 yrds. and you could do the same, catch 1 to 3 and either change flies or move abit. I did both.

Best fly of the day by far was a size 16 ginger scud. You could lay it right on the bottom, with no drift or wind and they would pick it up.

When the horn blew and the water started it really didn't get any faster, We caught them at the same pace only we didn't have to relocate or change flies as the boat was drifting. Beaded egg flies in orange or pink were producing far better than sanjuan's or pink jigs.

WE fished these 7 ft. under a strike indicator and caught fish at a nice pace from 4 to 6 pm.

Fishing is much better late. Early is not the time to be on taney, sleep in and let the water flow or the wind blow. Good Luck