Weekend Report

[fishinwrench]

3 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Let’s be honest with ourselves.  This forum and our own reports have had a lot, or at least somewhat, to do with the popularity of Taney.  

Yeah!   Buncha hotspotting blabbermouths. 😎

[snagged in outlet 3]

52 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Yeah!   Buncha hotspotting blabbermouths. 😎

Guilty as charged.  Unfortunately.  

[laker67]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

Yeah!   Buncha hotspotting blabbermouths. 😎

Guilty

[laker67]

When it starts getting crowded, I tell everyone about the best fishing that I have ever had last week in arkansas. Right now 8 and 10 lbers are running in pods of 20 to 30 fish. I am packed up and headed that way in the morning.

[Gavin]

No different than snagging fish at Cow Shoals on the Little Red.

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

22 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Yeah!   Buncha hotspotting blabbermouths. 😎

Not my smallmouth spots though.  Learned my lesson.  

[JestersHK]

Sad pandas... I enjoy sharing my trips, but I guess it does increase the issue based on the views this site gets...

[snagged in outlet 3]

9 minutes ago, JestersHK said:

Sad pandas... I enjoy sharing my trips, but I guess it does increase the issue based on the views this site gets...

More like regret, not sad.  Were you fishing Taney before you joined here in 2015?

[Devan S.]

I would offer up the fact that 2 state records in recent years(neither caught wading at the outlets), multiple guides, outfitters, resorts along the lake, and readily located in a "tourist" hotspot all contribute magnitudes more. Not saying OA isn't a significant source but I firmly believe people would be stacked along the Taney banks without this site. Heck look at the trout parks which are shoulder to shoulder most of the year too(they don't get near the big fish publicity either) . Personally standing at the outlets isn't much different than the trout parks. 

Where else can you go, have a place to take the family, and go fish in the mornings/evenings with multiple options(Taney, BS, TRL) all within minutes drive?

It's literally the perfect storm and its so easy literally anyone can try it without much $$. 

Ever try to take a family vacation to Lake Fork with a wife and kids that can't fish all day?

 

Sure a secret out of the way smallmouth streams....probably an OA issue but Taney has a lot of other things working against it besides OA. 

 

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

22 minutes ago, Devan S. said:

I would offer up the fact that 2 state records in recent years(neither caught wading at the outlets), multiple guides, outfitters, resorts along the lake, and readily located in a "tourist" hotspot all contribute magnitudes more. Not saying OA isn't a significant source but I firmly believe people would be stacked along the Taney banks without this site. Heck look at the trout parks which are shoulder to shoulder most of the year too(they don't get near the big fish publicity either) . Personally standing at the outlets isn't much different than the trout parks. 

Where else can you go, have a place to take the family, and go fish in the mornings/evenings with multiple options(Taney, BS, TRL) all within minutes drive?

It's literally the perfect storm and its so easy literally anyone can try it without much $$. 

Ever try to take a family vacation to Lake Fork with a wife and kids that can't fish all day?

 

Sure a secret out of the way smallmouth streams....probably an OA issue but Taney has a lot of other things working against it besides OA. 

 

 

I said “at least somewhat”.