Quick Memorial W/E Report, Taneycomo

[Phil Lilley]

The trout are biting.  That's about all I need to say really.  I sent 2 guys I grew up with out yesterday at 3 p.m. - bright sun and they had just started running 2 units.  The lake was starting to fill up with green slim moss from the generation startup.  Gave them my Pink Worm rods and told them to start at Cooper Creek, float down.  They caught a lot of rainbows.  Their brother arrived at 5 p.m..  They went back out and caught even more rainbows.  Then it started raining.  Big downpour for 25 minutes... just ask Duckydoty about it  

I took these guys fishing this morning.  We left at 6 a.m. and headed to Lookout in the fog.  No generation.  It really wasn't too bad and there weren't many boats out yet.  I had 4 rods rigged with 2-pound line and 1/16th ounce jigs.  They hadn't jigged fish much.  We had doubles and a few triples all morning -- worked our way down to Fall Creek.  Caught rainbows the whole way down - lost track of how many.  Nothing really over 15 inches until we got below the Narrows - bigger fish there.  Had a few up to 17 inches.

I hadn't done that in a long time... worked that whole area with the water off throwing small jigs.  They wanted sculpin/ginger or peach... no dark only colors.  And white was just ok.  They really liked the dark/light combo.

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[duckydoty]

Fishing was good on jerk baits up by the dam yesterday evening but we got run off by a scary looking dark rumbling cloud. Made it back to the resort unscathed. Waited around a few minutes and it looked ok. Tied making a pass from the resort to Cooper Creek and it just unloaded on us about the time we got the 1st rod out. We got soaked. 

[Russell Doughty]

Fishing buddy and I went wade fishing below the dam Wednesday when they shut the water off. I caught 54 and he caught 35, all on a Harvester midge, size 20. It was just crazy.

[Gatorjet]

Get ready for the fish to shut off. I'm coming down Tuesday! LOL

[Seth]

On 5/26/2018 at 4:46 PM, duckydoty said:

Fishing was good on jerk baits up by the dam yesterday evening but we got run off by a scary looking dark rumbling cloud. Made it back to the resort unscathed. Waited around a few minutes and it looked ok. Tied making a pass from the resort to Cooper Creek and it just unloaded on us about the time we got the 1st rod out. We got soaked. 



That's God's way of telling you to give those poor brownies a break!