Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Weather break... according to the forecast it's not supposed to get much into the 90's next week which will feel like fall after 103+ for a week straight. Generation sucked TR down by 18 inches to almost 914 ft. I wouldn't think the Corp would be excited about dumping any more water unless they had to and lower 90's may not be warm enough. So we not see much water for awhile except may be some in the evenings- we'll see. The weatherman may be off on his forecast too and we may see hotter temps next week.

Fishing continues to be slow for most. Our dock has been pretty dead since the big brown last week. Water is very clear which is normal... kinda. Not sure if it's this clear this early in the season before. It usually gets super clear in the fall- that's when most of us go to 2 lb line exclusively but we're finding we are advising 2 lb now to catch more fish. That's with the water off- no generation. With it on, 4 lb is fine in most cases.

Best fishing has been down below Monkey Island down thru the bridges lately. Seems alot of the stockers aren't making it up here. They may now that the water is not running ninety to nothing. Vince said they drifted that area last week and caught alot of stocker rainbows on egg flies and scuds using a drift rig. I'd try fishing on the bottom with night crawlers and power eggs with the water off. Also troll inline spinners like Mepps and Rooster Tails and throw Cleos.

Today is a new day. Patterns will change back to what they were before all the generation last week... I think. The only change is the browns that seemed to have moved up at the beginning of the heavy generation last week. Yesterday's catch of 2 legal browns is further evidence that it's true- there are lots of browns in the Fall Creek area. I got out last evening and tried throwing a 1/4 oz white jig on some of my favorite browns banks, hooking one small brown, seeing 2 other decent browns and one rainbow. The water was much higher than I like to fish but had to try. Now that it's down, we should get a good look at what's there.

Babler reported doing very well last week drifting a tan #12 scud with a red san juan worm in tandem drifting from Andy's house down past the flats. He said all the rainbows one day were fat and in the slot. He still believes there are the number of rainbows in the trophy area and I tend to agree. But the ones up there were good sized. Zebras should work but be sure to use lite line/tippet. I would resort to 8x... yet.

I'll have a better report later today from the guides.

[Phil Lilley]

Bill & Buster have found a bunch of stocker rainbows below the last dock in Taneycomo Acres, below Cooper Creek. Buster said he caught them on a small jig head with one power bait egg fishing it 5 feet under an indicator. He also caught them on a silver cleo.

Generation has been different every day this week. Yesterday it didn't come on till 1-2 pm and today it's on a 8-9 am.

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