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On a side note, the fish between Lilley's and Copper Creek were incredible! They were every where. We just couldn't get them to bite. Nearly all of them were hugging the bottom at about 18ft, but there were school after school of them.

We were just going to hang it up around 3:30 about 1/4 mile upstream of Copper Creek. When I got hit hard on the San Juan worm and a crawler. I knew when he fought it definitely wasn't a bow. Made my day though. Got this pic and released him. Guess he just wanted to say hello and Happy 4th!

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Report Post by Gator

After getting settled in, and getting the Gator in the water I ran up to Lookout. Went up the slough a ways, never been back there. Just wanted to see if it was passable to float down from above. Looks like a couple pretty tight spots with downd trees across the water. Don't mind runing over them, but don't want them running over me!

Fished a sculpin/olive/olive head jig on the way back out. As soon as I got to the mouth of the slough, and into some slack water I started catching fish. Tucked the boat into still water, and continued to catch fish. Also tried a brown/orange head jig under a float. It was still rigged up with a midge trailer about a foot under the jig. First cast boated a fat 16" bow on the jig. Continued to catch some smaller fish on the midge. Went back to a straight jig, this time mottled sculpin with orange head. Boated a couple more with that.

Didn't keep accurate count, but I'd say a dozen fat, and sassy bows in a couple hours from launch to dock. Including an unsuccessful drift from Lookout to Fall Creek experimenting with a lure I wanted to try in this swift water. These were the fattest, heaviest, strongest fighting 15"-18" rainbows I've caught in Taneycomo!