Friday 3-15

[Mr. Smallfish]

Threw everything we had at them this morning and only a few small fish. Can tell the whites aren't biting on the Bull or the Rock yet because it looked like the Chinese Navy had landed on Lake Taneycomo this morning.

[Phil Lilley]

Water was running fairly hard... were you in a boat or fishing from the bank.

I thought just maybe we'd see some shad come through if they ran it half way hard... waiting for reports. I couldn't get out.

[Mr. Smallfish]

From a boat. We had 3 "keeper" size rainbows and 2 browns around 15-16". Got there right at sun up and caught a rainbow on the first cast. Thought that might be a good omen. Didn't catch anything after about 9am. Only fish I saw caught were small. We slayed them last weekend and I wondered if it picked up after they shut the water down.

[Phil Lilley]

With the water running, I'd throw nothing but jigs, if I wasn't fly fishing. I'd start with white and then go to darker colors. If they didn't bite jigs, I'd drift an egg fly/scud combo or cast a rapala against the banks. Or drift one on a drift rig like Babler does.

They're running 25 mw (half unit) today and tomorrow. A small boat could get to the cable carefully but I would take a bass to pontoon boat up there.

I'd use the same thing but smaller jigs - 1/16th or 3/32nd or a jig and float using a 1/32nd oz jig or a full micro (pink is good).