Incredible Fishing

[Firefish]

I drifted the trophy area the 14th, 15th and 16th and I have to say the fishing was insanely good. They were running 1 unit Friday and then cranked it up to 4 units for the rest of the trip. Caught most of them on gray, tan and olive #2 scuds below a peach egg pattern. Had to use about 10 lbs of split shot to get it down Monday morning due to the high flows, but the fishing was probably the best I've ever had on Taney. They must be pumping steroids through the dam, because the fish were goin nuts! Then came the lightning. I went back out Monday evening and caught a few more, but it had definately slowed down from the morning. I envy you guys that live there. We have a wealth of lakes here in NE Oklahoma, but I'd give them all away for Taneycomo and Tablerock.

[Ping]

Thanks Firefly for reminding those of us that are blessed to live here how good we have it.

[Bird Watcher]

Just goes to show...

No matter how pretty a lake is, there is always some guy who is sick and tired of fishing her.

I would give anything to live in between Spavinaw, Eucha, Grand and Hudson. I don't think a lot of people outside of the NE OK natives realize how many lakes ther are in the NE corner of OK. I haven't been able to fish them all yet and I have tried fairly hard to do so.

[bigredbirdfan]

did they take the egg at all or just the scuds? good info thx for the report.

[Phil Lilley]

#2 scuds? Did you mean #12?

They're running 4 full units... it would be tough to get down, for sure.

[Firefish]

I probably caught 1/4 of them on the egg. Chris, your right. We do have a lot of good fishing around here. The biggest problem sometimes is deciding what lake to go to. Have you ever gone to Pumpback (also called Chimney Rock and W.R. Holloway)? It's a 900 acre lake just East of Hudson, 160 feet deep, and fishes a lot like a mini Tablerock. The state record smallmouth came out of it a couple years ago. No gas motors allowed. Awesome lake, and very peaceful.If only it had Taneycomo coming out of the bottom of it.

[Firefish]

Woops. Yeah Phil, they were #12. By the way, Didn't I read a post you made last year about using your jigging technique over on the White? I'm taking the kids over there for our yearly camping trip. They're getting pretty good with a fly rod, but I thought I might have them try some jigs too.

[Bird Watcher]

Firefish,

I have never even glanced twice at it. Thanks for the heads up!. I'll need to add that one to my list. Can you put a big boat in, but only use the trolling motor or are boats with outboards banned?

[Firefish]

Chris,

You can't even have an outboard on the boat. Most guys use a 14-16 foot boat with a couple of trolling motors on it, although some use the little scamp-type boats with one motor. The photos on Google Earth are good to check out because they were taken a few years ago when the lake was drawn down 35 feet for work on the dam. Good luck.

[FlyfishinOK]

It may not be a Taneycomo but there is a trout stream coming out of the bottom of Pumpback...or at least from the water seaping throuth the rock layers and springs. It's called the Chimney Rock Hollow Trout Fishery. It's about a mile long stream with 27 pools of nice rainbow & smallmouth. The bad part is you have to pay to play. We are members and fish there quite a bit along with Pumpback, Spavinaw & Eucha.