7-23 evening and 7-24 mid day report

[Seth]

Monday Evening
I drifted from the cable down to Lookout Island in the last 45 minutes of daylight and boated 9 rainbows on white and orange head sculpin/peach jigs. Biggest was a chunky 16.5 incher.

Tuesday 12-2pm - Trophy Area
Boated up to the cable and drifted down to Lookout and boated 19 rainbows. Most came on an 1/8oz sculpin/ginger jig. I think I caught one drifting an olive micro under a float and a few on a white jig as well. Most fish were caught in the deep eddy hole just above Lookout. Had a couple 16-16.5 inchers again, but nothing real big.

Tuesday 3-4:15pm - Bluff Bank from Lilley's down below Cooper
My fiance wanted to head back to the room and start getting ready for dinner and our show so I dropped her off and made a few drifts along the bluff bank across from Lilleys' on down below Cooper Creek. I threw 1/8oz sculpin/ginger, orange head sculpin/peach and white jigs along the bluff bank and boated another 14. Most were 11-12". I think I may have caught two that were 13-14". Before I left, I made one drift using olive, ginger and pink micros just to see which they wanted the most. Olive and pink each caught one and the ginger landed two.

We got back around 10:30 from our show and I decided to head down to the dock and mess around for a bit with the pink power worm. I ended up landing three little rainbows. As I was fishing, I looked down and saw a giant brown that had to be pushing 20# come out from under the dock and just slowly swim by right in front of me. I've got a video of it, but I'll have to upload it when I get to work tomorrow and have faster internet. Be sure to turn up your screen brightness and you can see the fish fairly well. Here is a screenshot from the footage. Keep in mind that this fish is 4-5' deep. It's definitely the largest trout that I've ever personally watched swimming in Taneycomo.

 

[Seth]

The grey overlay makes the fish stand out a lot better.

 

[Mississippi Man]

The Brown looks like a little submarine. Sounds like you were wearing the trout out. Fun times

[Seth]

23 minutes ago, Mississippi Man said:

The Brown looks like a little submarine. Sounds like you were wearing the trout out. Fun times

Catching numbers of trout never seems to be the issue. It's finding those nice ones! To add fuel to the fire, I was talking to a guy back at the dock and he said they were out in a boat and only caught one trout. He showed me a picture and it looked like a 4# rainbow! Go figure!

[JestersHK]

Nice job buddy!  Glad you got to at least see a sea monster!  Guessing that was Phil's pet fish though right?  Wonder if its the same one that was under there a year or so when he go pro'd them.

[Seth]

53 minutes ago, JestersHK said:

Nice job buddy!  Glad you got to at least see a sea monster!  Guessing that was Phil's pet fish though right?  Wonder if its the same one that was under there a year or so when he go pro'd them.

After talking to Duane, it sounds like this one was the "smaller" one of the two. This one was huge, but not as big as the other one he was telling me about.

[Phil Lilley]

That's Frank.  And then there's Frankie too.