Trout Fishing

Lake Taneycomo Report 9/21

Not a whole lot has changed in the past week here in SW Missouri except alittle rain on Saturday. Well, alot of rain. Monett is cleaning up after local flooding which isn't too far to the road. Looking on our lake level page - http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17240 - I see that our lakes rose from 6 inches to 2 feet in the area. Taneycomo rain water all day Saturday and into the night which turned out to be a huge blessing to those who fished Sunday. The rain washed muddy water and trash into the lake from creeks in the upper end of the lake but generation moved it on down lake. Sunday morning we had nice clear water greeting us and fishing was pretty darn good for our anglers here.

Table Rock and Beaver Lakes came up about 6 inches which isn't nothing to get alarmed about. We should see any change in generation patterns this week because of the rains. But with rain in the forecast, never know what may happen.

Today's generation, Monday, usually dictates what we MAY see the rest of the week. The SPA chart reported no water till late this afternoon but nothing doing... one unit was running early and they added another unit about noon. Right now they are running at least two units. One nice thing about this hard generation is that it will clean out the lake a bit. So it's hard to say what they will do the rest of the week as far as generation.

This morning, Bill Babler reported catching alot of rainbows drifting from Fall Creek down to Trout Hollow using night crawlers. They caught their limits early and then caught and released the rest of the morning. Bill said their rainbows were good quality and fought hard. So if they are running water, this technique would be worth a try.

Yesterday, they didn't run water all morning. Guides reported doing very well using small micro jigs in tan or olive from the old KOA down past Fall Creek, fishing them with 2 lb line and 4-5 feet deep. Two ways to work these - let them sit with no movement or twitch them just a tiny bit every 10 seconds. They don't seem to like it moving very much.

The normal Gulp Power Baits are still working. I did MDC stocking twice last week and there seems to be plenty of rainbows being caught in front of and off our dock here at Lilleys' Landing.

Fly fishing below the dam- well I heard several reports from Sunday... one good and some bad. The good one was a guy stripping woolies off the point at the big hole - he was doing good and he said others were catching trout too. But others fishing below the big hole down to the old KOA said it was very slow. Go down even further to Lookout and below fishing picked back up and was excellent for most of the morning but slowed down in the afternoon after the water started.