Lake Taneycomo-Generation Schedule

[Jeff Polys]

I am hoping for an early Feb trip to Lake Taneycomo. I noticed that generation is ONLY happening on the weekdays. I can only fish on the weekends, has the fishing be significantly slower on the weekends, due to lack of generation? Any tips to fishing below Fall Creek on the weekends would be greatly appreciated. Fishing for Rainbows, Browns and White Suckers. New to the group, so any tips would be helpful. Thank you! 

[Phil Lilley]

I have a lot of articles on ozarkanglers main site.  Hard to say what the water will do that far out.  Unless we get a lot of rain between now and then, I don't think we'll get a lot of heavy generation this winter.

[Jeff Polys]

Thanks Phil. I always enjoy your reports and videos. From what I read, several people only fish on the weekends and fish are still being caught regardless of generation schedule. Its a good sign that they are running the water all week, plenty of oxygen that might or might not fuel the bite for the weekends. Hopefully I can find a group of White Suckers, but I am not too sure how the generation schedule affects that particular species. I will continue to read and learn. Thanks again for your quick reply! 

God Bless! 

[Johnsfolly]

Jeff P

Welcome to OAF. Good luck on your next Taney trip. I've enjoyed every time I have been able to get to fish that water. I would be happy to hear if you get into any white suckers. PM me if you do. That is a species that I have not caught before and am always trying to get a new fish on the line. For most species I am catch and release, so I won't clean out any hot spots you may have found.

[Phil Lilley]

I assume you're gigging suckers.  Most guys go to the mouth of Fall Creek and start there.  Can't go above and gig.  Then there's the creeks but not sure they'd be in there.

Trout- O2 is good regardless of generation.  We'll just see what kind of rain we get and where the lakes are at that time.

[Seth]

Can you gig Taneycomo outside of the normal Sept 15 - January 31st season?

[Jeff Polys]

I belive your right, gigging closes Jan 31st. We just worm fish for suckers. I went to college at MSU and made plenty of sucker trips down to taney. Ultra lights with drift rigs, just a tiny piece of worm on a really sharp small hook. Something they can suck off ground. Get ready for a fight! I belive the state record white sucker was caught in taneycomo. Looking forward to my trip, I will be sure to share pics! Thanks everyone! 

[Seth]

We've caught many a white sucker from Lazy Valley's dock over the years. When I was younger and didn't have my own boat, I'd spend all day walking back and forth looking for them to come swimming by. I'd drop a piece of crawler with a kernel of corn (for visibility) down in front of them and sight fished for them.

[Jeff Polys]

It looks like the generation has been running some each day. 35 all throughout the weekend. I guess this means 1/2 of unit open or around half. Hopefully it keeps up. I have 1/32 and 1/64 jigs. From reading articles it appears that slow jigging and/or float jigging is a very popular way to catch larger trout. Sounds like a safer C/R method vs bait fishing. 

Has anyone seen shad kill on the lake? I read that I will want to switch to white jigs instead of sculpin (brownish red) jigs. We are still going to be targeting suckers with night crawlers off the bottom. Could also be a good way to get a brown. Bought some size 8 mustad hooks. Super sharp, hopefully I will be sinking it into several white suckers mouths!

Have a great Monday everyone!

 

 

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

The phone app shows it was off all weekend.  Started this morning at 2AM.

Haven't anything about a shad kill.