Fished Friday through Sunday

[RainbowHunter]

I was down at Taney this past weekend. I fished Friday through Sunday. During the day, I wasn't able to do anything productive. I spent Friday and Saturday day out in the boat fishing from Fall Creek down to Cooper Creek and wasn't able to do ANYTHING!!! I was using everything from glo-balls, plastic worms, flies, almost everything I had in my arsenal. I just couldn't get any results.

On Friday night I went out with Leonard from about 10 to 4am. It was the first time I had gone night fishing, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I was really surprised by the number of people out there that time of night. Anyway, my younger sister and cousin-in-law wanted to tag along for a little bit and Leonard took us down a ways from Outlet 2 and had us stripping across the bottom. (and had my lil' sis tossing a little brown trout body bait with a spinning rod since her fly fishing skills arent' exactly up to par yet) I was able to catch a couple of fish down that way and my cousin-in-law caught a few there too (I think his only fish for the entire weekend) Those two ended up getting cold and tired of fishing around 1130 or so and left. Leonard and I worked our way back up to outlet 2 and started to fish scuds under the lighted indicators. The fishing really started to pick up there. We saw a bunch of big ones, but I wasn't able to hook up on any of them. I think I ended up with 20 to 25 fish by the end of the night. Nothing too big but I was at least catching fish.

Leonard was a GREAT HELP! in showing me the ropes of night fishing. I probably wouldn't have had any luck this weekend if it weren't for Leonard's help out that night.

I attempted to go back on Saturday night, but things didn't work out. I made it out Sunday morning and fished what I could, but man was it crowded up top!! I was able to get a couple of fish on scuds, but nothing to call home about.

Well, that was my weekend down here. If anybody is planning on coming down soon I hope your luck is better than mine. Or at least have Leonard take you out for a night trip...He definitely has got me hooked on night fishing!...Just watch out for those beavers! They sneek up on you!

[Terry Beeson]

I'll second the motion on Leonard. If he can't put you on fish at night, nobody can. I still think he has them trained and has a dog whistle he calls them up with...

Sounds like you had a good trip... I'd take that success ANY time... and it's been "hit or miss" on Taney lately...

Oh... and careful with Leonard's pet beavers....