TR 7/17 to 7/19

[JestersHK]

My 2nd Taney trip has come and gone. It was an amazing trip and I continue to wish I only lived closer and could experience these waters with more frequency. It was definitely a slower trip fishing wise than back in June. I caught fish, but nowhere near the numbers I did on my last trip. I also got to sync up with fellow forum member KansasFly09. It was a pleasure meeting and fishing with you and your buddies, and Saturday sure was an awesome time wasn't it! Also made it down to Lilleys and picked me up my new favorite fishing shirt! Shirts are nice and very well made! On to the report. 2 units were running pretty much all weekend minus a short window on Friday morning where I could wade out a bit and explore before they turned it back on at 7:00AM

I jigged mostly and did some drifting when the water came up. Dominant lure was the old faithful Olive Drab woolly bugger gold head in 1/16oz variety. Caught majority of my fish on that and also some small scuds and green zebra midges when I was drift fishing. The orange head sculpin pattern jigs seemed to have slowed down, and there were times I threw just about every pattern of maribou at them with very little success. I stuck this fish on Saturday wading out from the bank down by the first outlet. Fish was strong and made 2 great runs almost out to the main channel and even gave me 2 nice launches straight up out of the water like a missile.

And heres a few in the net. Including a little Brownie

Overall a great trip still, caught around 20 or so total fish. Only fished the outlets for a little bit as I prefer to jig and get a bit further out, but there were some folks there literally catching them as soon as the fly hit the water almost. On Saturday they schooled up at Outlet number 1 so thick that you could have walked across them... Never seen so many fish in one place. It was crazy.

Sunday it slowed down and I am guessing the fish moved a bit further down. Caught a few then sadly had to make the drive back home.

Until next time,

Tight Lines everyone.

[Kansasfly09]

It was great to meet up with you out there. It was my first time out there and people who I had ben in contact with through the forum and the locals that I talked to while fishing were all awesome people. Other than struggling to keep our eyes awake on the drive home we were all thinking about our next trip down to Taneycomo. We also ran into a really friendly group of Texans there while at Taneycomo. I have no complaints what so ever about our trip. Made it into the landing and walked around there for a while and really enjoyed that shop, they have anything you could ever want or need. We also made it into Angler Outfitters and talked to Chuck in there. That man has some stories, I could sit in there and listen to him forever. He was a real stand up guy who was more than willing to give you helpful tips.