Taney Fishing Report. Oct. 8-15

[Rolan Duffield]

Just to set the picture for last weeks fishing trip, my brothers and I fished from my boat primarily in the Trophy area with fly rods.

Conversations we heard were that there were a lot of very small trout being caught. Thats true, as we did catch many as small as 6" in length. I don't remember seeing trout that small in Taney in the past, however, we also caught a high percentage of Rainbows 14"and larger. We caught more large trout than I have caught in many years. Except for the windy day, I caught at least one trout over 15" long every time we went out with my largest being 17.5" and most of them were hard fighters. I did have two larger trout on, one pulled out and the other snagged me under the boat. One of my brothers landed a 21" Rainbow.

The weather was fantastic ranging from about 50 degrees in the mornings and mostly in the 70 to 80 degree range in the afternoon. We had one day with winds up to 20 mph which did affect seeing a strike.

Most all of the trout were caught on "Peppy", my grey scud pattern. It is necessary to use a long leader to get the lure on the bottom. If it's not near the bottom you will not catch many trout. You also had to pay close attention to your float as the strikes were very very light.

We couldn't predict the water release pattern as it changed throughout the days fishing. We just had to adapt to the conditions at the time.

I will say that there are currently more good sized Trout in the upper areas of Taney than I have seen in many years.

[Bman]

Just to set the picture for last weeks fishing trip, my brothers and I fished from my boat primarily in the Trophy area with fly rods.

Conversations we heard were that there were a lot of very small trout being caught. Thats true, as we did catch many as small as 6" in length. I don't remember seeing trout that small in Taney in the past, however, we also caught a high percentage of Rainbows 14"and larger. We caught more large trout than I have caught in many years. Except for the windy day, I caught at least one trout over 15" long every time we went out with my largest being 17.5" and most of them were hard fighters. I did have two larger trout on, one pulled out and the other snagged me under the boat. One of my brothers landed a 21" Rainbow.

The weather was fantastic ranging from about 50 degrees in the mornings and mostly in the 70 to 80 degree range in the afternoon. We had one day with winds up to 20 mph which did affect seeing a strike.

Most all of the trout were caught on "Peppy", my grey scud pattern. It is necessary to use a long leader to get the lure on the bottom. If it's not near the bottom you will not catch many trout. You also had to pay close attention to your float as the strikes were very very light.

We couldn't predict the water release pattern as it changed throughout the days fishing. We just had to adapt to the conditions at the time.

I will say that there are currently more good sized Trout in the upper areas of Taney than I have seen in many years.

Mr Duffield, It was good to see you out on the water. Every time I saw your boat, someone had a fish on! Glad you had a good one.

tight lines, Bruce

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Great read Roland - the weather was on your side for sure.

And a nod to your brother who caught a nice fish on the upper end.

Peppy is a Taneycomo staple... I still have one in my box to this day.

The last I have left.

I have tried to duplicate it.. but that dubbing is getting hard to recreate.

Brian