Lake Taneycomo Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Got out this afternoon at 3 pm and fished pretty much till dark.

First I had to try out the new gravel bar at the Narrows. Boated up and beached the boat and got out. Fishing the shoot on the back side- nothing but I still think it's going to be good. Drifted a scud #12 gray off the dropoff below the bar and caught a half dozen rainbows pretty quickly- nothing big. Darin came up and so we headed up to the dam to see what else we could see as far as changes.

Got up there- I think the Rebar area has changed a bunch but I can't give any details. The depths are all different when I run through in the boat. I think there's some kind of deep hole close to the top of the Rebar shoot- I hit 7-8 foot of water in that area. I think the gravel bar above Big Hole is much higher and the hole is deeper. The stump/tree is still below the island.

We caught whites, smallmouth and a walleye below the cable along the south bank again. Drifted the north bank and caught some nice rainbows but caught a bunch of small rainbows- something we hadn't seen many of- small ones. Drifted the bluff bank from Lookout down and did well using a jig and float with a white 1/32nd oz jig before 5 pm but after 5 this area stunk! Just the opposite as I would expect.

I did fish a dark jig several times and little success. The trout were chasing the jig back to the boat a lot- this explains why everyone is doing so well on rapalas- they like chasing things.

I did catch some rainbows on a cicada fly this evening. There is one short stretch where the trout were really hitting the surface above the Narrows and against the bluff bank and that's where I caught the fish. Tried other areas with no results.

A nice images of the gravel bar at the Narrows. You can really see the edge of the bar.