Fishing Buddy Report Feb 2-4

[budman]

First time I have taken advantage of Phil's Fishing Buddy special, but it won't be the last. It's the best deal you can get and a great place to stay. We got there about 10:30 Monday morning with the temps around 28 degrees and some light snow flurries. They let us check in early so we had a warm place to change clothes, instead of having to freeze in the parking lot. We started fishing about 11:30 up by the Dam. It didn't take long for our guides to freeze solid, needed some antifreeze. Temps never got above 32, I think, so it happen all day long. We fished from outlet 2 up to the cable and only managed to catch a few fish, about 8-10, but saw a couple of guys catch about 20, we have a lot to learn about this river. Tuesday we fished the opposite side of the river a little farther down stream, across the river from the boat ramp and worked our way down to the first shoal down stream. It started slow as we tried to find out what they wanted. The only thing we found that worked constantly for us was a CQ Streamer, nice little fly. We all caught several fish, either just above are in the middle of that area and thought we had it figured out when they sounded the horn about 2 o'clock, was supposed to be O generation until 6 PM. So we head back up river to the old boat ramp and noticed the water had only come up about 3-4 inches so we fished there at the old boat ramp. We fished there until about 4:30 and caught several more each. Ended up catching about 30 fish that day. Wednesday they were generating 25 all day so we had higher faster water all day, another day of learning how to fish Taneycomo. We started fishing around Outlet 2 and worked our way down to Outlet 3. Didn't catch a thing the first hour, then saw some fish feeding in a eddy below there. I switched back to the CQ and caught my first fish of the day. We all fished the same area and caught a few more each, about 12-14 fish by noon. Short day because we all had to get home. So we caught around fifty fish, which we thought was good considering this was our first trip to Taneycomo. Almost all the fish had great color and fat bellies. Most in the 12-14 inch range but had a couple of 16 - 17 fish. We saw several eagles, herons and had a nice group of mallards feeding around us. The most interesting sight was the group of mallard who didn't mind us fishing close to them or when any vulture, heron, or hawk flew by but when two eagles came flying up the river they all started making a fuss and headed for deeper water in case they needed to dive. All said it was a good trip that we will do again, taking what we have learned and build on it, hoping for the day when we all say "do you remember that day when we slayed them on that trip." Which we understand happens from time to time there. Thanks Phil for this great deal and hope to make this an annual trip.

[Terrierman]

Nice!

[tkuehnert]

I was one of the members on this trip - i cant add too much more, he summarized it well. I tried green crackleback for a while with no luck, on both 0 and 25 flow times. The CQ was only thing I had success with, looking for spots where fish were active, just below drops in the river.

Really enjoyed staying at LL - close to everything you need. Headed to town and ate, we came back and smoked a cigar in the pavillion beside the heater...great end to a great trip.

We will be back , no doubt.

[trythisonemv]

I found one of those cq streamers down at Capps one day. Good looking fly not surprised you had good luck with it. Good report