Today And Tonight's Fishing Report

[duckydoty]

Started fishing the upper end today around 1pm. Fished below the set of stairs below the boat ramp and started with the slightly weighted mega worm in the still water just above the chute there. Caught 6 fish on the mega worm and changed to an olive pine squirrel to try stripping through all the fish that were midging everywhere. Caught 4 or 5 fish on that while stripping it real fast but could not get much more interest than that. I finally caved in to the midging fish and put on an indicator with a size 16 zebra midge about 12 inches under the indicator. Picked up several fish on that, but nothing of any real size. Decided to start moving around and exploring. Crossed to the South side and started working my way up to the Old Rocking Chair area. Picked up a couple of fish in front of the boat ramp and a few more on the South side of the Rocking Chair. I saw some more midging action on the North Side of the Rocking Chair and was able to cross over there. Picked a bunch of fish up on the North side and started working my way back down to the Boat Ramp. The biggest fish while it was still daylight out came from the North side half way between the Rocking Chair and the Boat Ramp. I caught 3 of them in the 16 inch range and 1 that was a good 17 inches with all of them having huge bellies. They were nice chunkers for sure. Headed up the Boat Ramp to the truck about 4:45 for some vittles and my head light. Was able to fish the zebra midge till dark down by Trophy Run and picked up a few more on it. At dark, i switched back to the olive pine squirrel and spent about 30 minutes catching only 2 fish. When it was completely dark, I switched over to the white mink, crossed back over to the South Side and headed back up, across from the boat ramp. Started picking jup fish on just about every cast till I quit at 8 pm. About half of them were the dinks we have been seeing up there, but the other half were pretty good fish from 14 to 17 inches. A lot of nice fat ones tonight. I would have to say the night fishing was better than the day time fishing. It was good to get out of the house and get rid of some of that cabin fever today.

[Buzz]

Nice report Ducky. Just curious, how much difference is there between white rabbit fur and white mink? Rabbit I have, mink I don't. Lol.

[duckydoty]

The rabbit fur is a longer and thinner fur than mink. I've found that the mink out fishes the rabbit. I guess they just have expensive taste in fur?

[JCWolfe]

Dont lose that mink fly!

[Nighthawk]

Duckster, where do you get white mink fur, and don't say from a white mink

[duckydoty]

Phil keeps it in stock pretty good unless I've been in there and bought him out. I usually buy 10-15 packs of it at a time.

[mikeak]

Thanks for the report

Mike

[Flatbottom Boy]

Making a trip in a couple weeks for a few days, I would like to try the night fishing as I've never had the chance at Taney. I am going to be fishing with my father-in-law and brother-in-laws that don't fly fish. Any of you guys have suggestions as to what they could cast for the night bite? I have some nasty looking streamers I wanted to try on my 7 weight and I'll probably swing by Lilley's of course for some avise on the flies. Just curious about the spin fisherman as I hear very little about that.

[hknfsh]

Making a trip in a couple weeks for a few days, I would like to try the night fishing as I've never had the chance at Taney. I am going to be fishing with my father-in-law and brother-in-laws that don't fly fish. Any of you guys have suggestions as to what they could cast for the night bite? I have some nasty looking streamers I wanted to try on my 7 weight and I'll probably swing by Lilley's of course for some avise on the flies. Just curious about the spin fisherman as I hear very little about that.

I haven't night fished Taney for several years and I'm no fly fisherman either but when we did we would throw small rattling rogues (blk/gold or blk/orange) on spinning gear and usually did well. Had better luck up at the cable but anywhere from there to the ramp was still good. Hang on for a good fish or two. Bigger trout like these.

[duckydoty]

Good suggestion for the spin fishers by hknfsh. They can try marabou jigs also. Phil's has all the flies I've mentioned in my report that I use at night. You will never view Taney the same after one good night down there with the water off.