Taney 19-20 Fishing Report

[Bill Babler]

Not going to even talk about Thursday the 18th.  I don't think there were any fish in the lake that day, they were hiding up in the woods.  Yesterday was simply unreal even on flat water.  Surface temps at 55 degree.  I had folks that wanted a few fish for dinner so we fished inflated crawlers and pretty much caught from start to finsh   Great people and threw back any fish over 13 inches and we caught a bunch over that number.  They only kept two 13 inch fish each for dinner.

John with a 22 inch Taneycomo Toad, caught and released in the Restricted Zone on a White Mega worm.

Today I had Craig and John to fly fish the restricted zone.  Water temps at 51 degree and low and behold there were 2 units running when we started at 0600.  Just about as perfect a morning as you could want minus the boat traffic and I will tell you there was some.  Didn't seem to matter the first 2.5 hrs but it did get pretty intense up in the morning,

Ducky told me he had done well the previous day on the Mega Worm, and I only had enough white material to tie 5.  We used those up quickly and the Duckster came along and saved me with 5 more.  Fished a sanjaun and a scud, but the white Mega was the deal.

We drifted from Andy's thru the dock at Fall Creek, with our best success prior to 9 am.

 

 

[Ryan Miloshewski]

Peach mega worm has been really good lately, too. Tried pink, chartreuse, light pink, and red. Only ones they wanted were white and peach. 

[Bill Babler]

Good Info.  They also hit a lime green Chartreuse that Ducky tied when we ran out of all the others.  Durn things are really fragile unless you use mop material and I don't have any white.

[netboy]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Good Info.  They also hit a lime green Chartruse that Ducky tied when we ran out of all the others.  Durn things are really fragile unless you use mop material and I don't have any white.

Do you guys dead drift those under an indicator or strip them back?

[Bill Babler]

Drift.

[netboy]

Thanks Bill.

I'll have to try that. I have had good luck with an olive mop fly here on the White stripping it much the same way as fishing a jig.