Saturday May 2 report

[JamiePatterson]

Fished Taneycomo Saturday with a friend who is about to get married. What's better for a batchelor party than a fishing trip! 2 boats with 3 fishermen each. Got on the water late and spent some time showing the fellas how to jig fish. Didn't start fishing until around noon but stayed on the water until a bit after 5, so got a lot of fishing in. I was running my White River trout boat with a jet prop motor, while the other guys were in a duck boat. The shallow running ability of my rig let us venture far into the trophy area and greatly increased our catch.

Fishing the lower trophy area (below the overlook) our 2nd boat managed to land somewhere just over 100 fish. they targeted the deeper bank and fished 1/16 zig jigs and swing oil jigs. Color didn't seem to matter. Greens, tans, black, even white caught fish.

My boat ventured farther up river -all the way to just below the rear hole. The bite was hot! Again, color didn't seem to matter. Fishing deeper holes slowly resulted in many doubles and tripples. Swimming a jig over shallow flats often lead to followers, but the bites were tougher to come by. Trophy run hole and the deep water just below the upper ramp were loaded with fish. The only advice I really have to give is focus on the obvious water -deeper runs, below drop offs, and structure are the areas to fush.

When they ran a unit of water (about an hour) we motored up to the dam and saw the size of our catch improve. We stll caught dinks, but had many really pretty, larger fish along with them. When we decided to head in my clicker read 265.

Two of us fished the white out of wildcat shoals for a few hours the day before, catching 52 fish. I was a little bummed to be leaving there (my fovorite water). Turned out I should have just headed steaight to Branson, Taney is on fire!

[JamiePatterson]

Edit: fished til just after 6, not 5.

[Ccox1982]

Did u happen to think about other fisherman? They to might wanna catch some fish. Sounds like u boys wore them out. Very nice buddy.

[Travis Swift]

i will piggy back this report if that is okay. We ran down for a fast weekend mainly to take the little one to Silver Dollar City. I needed a Taney fix and since Phil was booked (it was a last minute trip) I grabbed a room at Trout Hollow. Saturday morning I fished for about an hour and 45 minutes and caught 31 fish from the dock. The majority were on a trout magnet and float combo 6 foot deep. 2 pound test with a 7x tippet tied on. The biggest rainbow was a pretty 18 inch fish. I threw a 3/32nd ounce white jig some as well and caught a handful on it including a 19 inch fat brown. Sunday morning I ran down for an hour and a half off the dock before we left and caught 17 rainbows so it was a lot slower. Caught all them on the Trout Magnet and float combo 5 to 6 foot deep. didn't seem to matter what color magnet I threw either. Tons of fishing were midging each morning from Short Creek to the old River lake dock. Will be back on Taney in 60 days for a much longer period and can't wait!

Travis