30 Minutes... One Fish

[Phil Lilley]

Had time for one drift this evening before dinner. Boated up just past the narrows above Fall Creek and threw an 1/8th oz sculpin jig against the bluff bank. Lost it on the 5th cast with no strikes. Tied on another, no strikes to Fall Creek. Worked it slow, real slow to keep it close to the bottom. Tied on a white jig, 3/32nd oz, and started fishing the east bank, opposite of Fall Creek. Why white? That's one of my favorite brown banks this time of year (fall) and on the 2nd cast, it paid off. This nice brown. Drifted on down almost to the ramp and headed in. No more bites. Pic came out nice- fish cooperated.

They ran water pretty hard late today. I would guess this may slow fishing down alittle away from the dam. I mean when the water goes from say the 60's to the low 50's or high 40's when they run so much water, the trout tend to slow down a bit. This isn't necessarily true of areas above Cooper Creek say but would be in the Branson area and down.

There have been some nice rainbows caught the last few days on around the Landing, mainly on power bait and, get this, colored marshmallows. I've also heard fishing down close to Bull Creek has been exceptionally good.

[flyfshn]

Beautiful fish!

[MrDucky]

Phil thats a great fish

[zander]

We were fishing in Taneycomo right up from the Powersite from about 4:30 to 7:30pm tonight. My father was tearing them up outfishing me 4 to 1 on yellow powerbait trout nuggets, I was using the same thing and I was hardly getting a bite. Eventually I convinced him to tie on a spoon and we went trolling and caught our limit in three passes. Nice hard fighting rainbows on a small simple silver spoon. It was nice to catch a limit for the first time in a while.

[Zach Bearden]

Zander I may be misunderstanding you but if you were fishing above Fall Creek, to use a bait is Illegal. But I may be misunderstand where you are talking about.

[MrDucky]

Zach , Powersite is down in Forsthye MO which is right a bull shoals i think but its still Taneycomo and powerbait is legal

[zander]

Yep, we were as far away from the trophy management area as you could get and still be on Taneycomo, in about 35 feet of water.

[Zach Bearden]

Oh ok, lol (I dont know much about the lake other than at the top of it at the dam and in Branson)

[Bman]

Phil,Thanks for the nice pic

What line do you & Bill prefer for your spin fishing?

Regards...

[Phil Lilley]

I use Trilene XL 2 or 4 lb green but like other lines. Vanish 2 lb. Tectan 3.1 or 4 lb. I was using 3.1 tectan when I caught this brown. It's really soft line. The 2 lb floats in the wind when you throw it... too soft and light for me. Like sewing thread.