Taneycomo Browns Are Here!

[Phil Lilley]

The question has been asked, "Are the browns up below the dam on Taney yet?"  I'd say, "Yes!!"

Steve Dickey and I ran up by boat to the dam this evening for a quick trip.  With 2 units running, we started at the cable, throwing to the north side of the lake.  Steve brought his bait casting rod and had a Mega Bass stick bait on.  I had a 1/8th ounce white jig.

Before we hardly moved when both of us connected with fish and both were brown trout.  Steve's fish was bigger than mine so we netted it, took a quick pic and released it.  Then we netted mine and took a pic.



We drifted to below the boat ramp.  I was pleasantly surprised how many trout we both caught, and missed.  We made another run up to find the water dropping out and the current much slower.  It didn't seem to bother the fish much.  We still hooked and landed nice fish.



All toll we netted 7 browns, 2 over 20 inches (Steve's) and the others just under 20.  We caught quite a few small rainbows but did have 2 pushing 19 inches.



Trout were active to say the least.  And the browns, well, I'd say there's a very good number of them up there right now.

[ruthead]

OOOOOOOHHHHHH Boy!!!!! Nice!!

[JCWolfe]

The second picture looks like one I caught last friday. Son in law got one too. They were really yellow on the bottom.

[Quillback]

Those are some great fish, congrats!

[Seth]

Those are some awesome browns! I would love to be down there catching some browns right now! Why does Taney have to be 3.5 hours away from me???

[Gatorjet]

Phil, how long will the browns stay up there. We're coming down in three weeks. Any chance of them still being up there then?

[Geoff]

Awesome, too bad I wont be down there until thanksgiving

[Phil Lilley]

They used to be thick the last week of October and first week of November but we haven't had a normal run in 4-5 years now, I think. We'll see.

[Phil Lilley]

They all don't run up there all at once... they are spread out.