Tj's Fishing Trip

[Todd in Rocheport]

Drove from Columbia to Taney on Sunday morning and stayed at Lilley's with the fishing buddy special. Met Bill B. Monday morning for a half day. Water was on and we caught quite a few fish bouncing 1/8th ounce lead dropper rigs with yellow and orange powerbait. Only did that for a while and then switched to a dropper rig with a pink egg pattern tandemed with a scud - brown or gray. Caught a bunch on that above the sign. Bill's a nice guy with a nice boat and lots of knowledge. Would recommend him as a guide. We REALLY wanted to fly fish so after a quick lunch we went down below outlet number 2 and HAMMERED the fish for about 5 straight hours. Scud patterns anywhere from size 12-22 were working. The hot fly for me was a size 16 grey scud tied with orange thread. I broke off about 2 dozen flies. Foul-hooked quite a few fish which I would just break off if I couldn't get them in right away. Biggest fish was pushing 18". Finally ran out of flies and just sat and watched TJ and some other guy (we were the only ones there) catch double after double the last half hour of light. TJ's hot fly was a size 22 black scud. Water was really coming up, rain was starting to fall and the temp was dropping. After a solid 8 hours fishing we got into the car and drove home. I've read a lot about Lilley's and the fishing at Taney. The people were really, really nice and helpful and we would definitely recommend Lilley's to anyone. I wish it wasn't so far from our house because fishing was awesome! We hooked into a couple fish that ran us into our backing that we never saw.

Thanks again Lilley's.

Todd and TJ

[Phil Lilley]

Thanks for the report. Greg was the only "Lilley" at home the last few days. My mom's brother passed last week and most of us made the trip to Denison, TX for his service so we were all gone except for Greg who held the fort down.

Glad you had a god time.

[Danoinark]

Nice....sounds like a GREAT trip and fun.

[Gallagher]

Phil, sorry to hear of your loss, thoughts & prayers to you and family.

TJ,... great fishing report.