Browns Continue To Amaze...

[Phil Lilley]

I'm not sure what our browns are eating but it must be filling...

Every brown I've caught this summer is busting a gut. Growth rates must be off the chart.

I made one drift yesterday, working a white jig about as slow as I could stand and caught a dozen browns. Two were this year's stock but the rest were 15-inches-plus.

I went in to download the videos- my camera's battery was low. Went back out 45 minutes later, made the same drift and didn't get a bite. Figure that!

I don't catch as many fish on a white jig but I can't lay it down. Better chance to catch that brown of a lifetime.

[fly2fish]

Last night the first 2 fish I caught were browns, the first I shook off quickly and thought it was a brown and very next cast caught another one and looked closer and it was a twin of the first. The rest of the night all bows, all came on white bead head hibinators both on the fly rod and the spinning rod with 1/8 oz split shot 1unit running.

F2F

[Quillback]

Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

[Phil Lilley]

Just so everyone knows... I don't catch fish every time out.

I threw a jig today from 3 till 7 and didn't catch one brown. Only caught may be 6 rainbows. Fished hard too.

Also -

I fly fished - threw a dry (stimulator) from Lookout Island to the Narrows against the bluff bank this evening and didn't have one rise. Water could have been running just a little harder - for both jig fishing and fishing the dry.

[Haris122]

I was down in Branson Saturday afternoon into most of Sunday, and actually got 3 hours to fish on Sunday afternoon on one of the accesses near the hatchery, and I caught one Rainbow that was barely slot length. Saw some good fish though. I'm hoping next time I get the chance to visit I wind up doing more fishing at more locations on the Lake, but nonetheless it was a fun trip.