Boat Fishing Aug 26-28?

[RandyL]

I plan to fish Taneycomo from Aug 26-28. I will be staying at Lilley's and fishing out of a boat. What locations and techniques do you guys have for a spin fisherman to catch large numbers of catch & release rainbows over 12 inches? I fished the trophy area two years ago in late September (throwing small jigs and swimming them without a float) but haven't fished in August before.

[Phil Lilley]

From micros to bigger jigs, depending on water generation. Fishing's been real- good you should do well.

[MOBass]

I watched a guy fishing a float and fly this weekend and he was doing pretty good. I had some really fat rainbows on Sunday fishing a small kastmaster spoon. I actually caught the better fish while messing around a little jigging the spool in about 12 ft. of water. The small stockers seemed to be cruising and chasing with better fish close to the bottom.

[RandyL]

Should I assume the fishing is the best the first couple of hours and the last two hours daylight with the mid day being tough? I haven't fished Taney when the weather is hot before.

My only previous experience was to boat up to maybe "round rock" and drif down casting jigs towards the deeper bank. This seemed to work fairly well. Any other recommendations?

[brownieman]

Any other recommendations?

Not a taney expert here but would say it's like anywhere, early and lates the best...no such thing as too late, ask leonard, lol.

depends on what you want to catch...big bait = big fish...generally not the numbers, to me it's what you want to catch. Myself, i'll take one monster as opposed to a truck load of dinks...everyone has their preference though.

bm

[Thom]

Randy:

I will be down that whole week. Not sure if I will be bringing my boat but maybe we can get together one day to fish if you don't have any other partners. I fish lots of patterns and have several jig patterns that work well on the restricted area.

PM me on the forum if you are interested. I stayed at Phil's two weeks ago and caught lots of fish mostly from short creek to Lookout. I understand that they are also catching fish downstream also but I didn't do to well down there. Just tried one day and was doing so good upstream that I didn't try to long. Jigs from 1/100 to 1/64 do well in Olive, sculplin, bright pink, and black over yellow fished under a small float. this works well both in the channel as well as on the gravel shallower side.

If the water is running floating and jigging ticking off the botttom also is good by floating over the rocks and jigging the same colors but in larger sizes.