Taneycomo Fishing Report

[Bill Babler]

From Cooper Creek thru Clay Banks, fishing has been on and off the last week. Have strickly been on artificial and not bait, but have not seen the bait guys doing a whole lot, while we were fishing around them.

Size 14 to 16 either zebra or blood midge is probably the best getter right now. A gold or copper head really enhances the flys preformance. I am using one of my own design called a blood midge. I am tying this on an Orvis scud hook no 62KC in size 14 and 16, with the 14 probably catching the most fish and getting the fewest bites. This midge is tyed using a 5/64 tungsten bead and dressing the hook in black thread and them using red copper to segment the body raps.

I am fishing it about 4ft. below the indicator when the fish are not midging and about 18 inches when they are midging.

The orange headed sculpin 1/2 micro is still catching fish as is the gold headed ginger jig. Everything is working better on the wind.

Alot of fish were holding from Riverlake to Short Creek, but most have been flushed by the rain and earlier power generation. These fish should bite from Lilleys' on down on crawlers and sunrise or bubble gum eggs.

From Clay Banks thru Short Creek, go with the midge or the micro. Lots of fish on the hump in front of Fall Creek, up to the boat ramp on the jig. From the ramp to Clay Banks they are on the midge better.

Tony Wedele has been using a tandem with a huge egg fly on a bead head and swinging a size 16 copper midge under it, about 4 1/2 ft of depth. He is catching limits on this pattern. He also uses the micro as the top fly and swings the midges under it. He said both work about equal, but the hook in the egg is stronger than the micro hook, for fishing doubles. They are hitting the big egg, about 30% of the time.

Let us know how your capturing these trout in this area of the lake.

[vince]

Hey Bill thanks for the good report, I enjoy them. I haven't been out much lately. Went out friday evening, waded top end of clay banks at the narrows. One unit was running, was using tan and gray scuds. Fish were moving up on the gravel being submerged as the water came up. It was fun to pick one fish and get a good drift and watch the trout move to pick up the fly. They were many willing takers that evening.