Editors General Comments: Very little affects the fishing on LakeTaneycomo like the generation of power at the Table Rock Dam. Call 417-336-5083 for up to the moment information on generation and lake levels or click here. October 10- At 0514- 0 generator(s) on, Table Rock is at 913.1 and Taneycomo at 701.5.
Trophy Trout Area: Special Regulations apply to the Trophy Trout Area running from Table Rock Dam to the mouth of Fall Creek. Click here for an overview of these regulations.
Fly Fishing Only by River Run Outfitters (Dam to Fall Creek)– October 7 -Been on the water every day since we got back from vacation. Thank heavens for vacations! All trips continue to catch a good number of fish. Monday we had a party of three out in two of the four boats out that day. One of the three was on his second trip since finishing fly fishing school and wanted to share the great fishing in Taneycomo with his two friends. They showed up with spinning rods and tackle boxes in hand. We persuaded them they needed to learn how to catch trout on a fly rod. Much to their surprise and delight, they each landed over 10 fish in 1/2 day and had a great time. One of the other boats was out all day and they lost track of the number of fish landed….and missed! We started Monday out with the rusty zebra midge and went to a San Juan worm when the water came on at noon. My boat had a seasoned fly fisher and he also caught them on a large, size 12, insect green soft hackle. Found some Crane Flies just a little smaller than a 12 in insect green on the water. He had never soft hackled and loves it. His first love however, is still dries (from Pennsylvania) but we couldn’t get them to take any dries Monday a.m. Catch of the week, so far, was a 22 inch Rainbow caught yesterday on the size 18 rusty zebra midge. Other boats had two gentlemen from California. Boated 30-35 between them. They do a lot of bass fly fishing so they had a bit of trouble with a lighter hook set. Broke off lots of fish and flies on the hook set. One of our customers caught a 26 1/2 inch Rainbow last week on a sculpin pattern and another caught a 22 incher on an olive woolly bugger. Seeing quite a few large Rainbows…not to many Browns yet.
Fly Fishing and Spin Fishing By Chartered Waters Guide Service and Fly Shop – October 8th – Bob, Rich and Denny took an all day spin fishing trip today and had a good one. …A cloudy, overcast day greeted us most of the time with periods of rain showers. Nothing too bad and like always…as soon as we put on the rain gear it would stop. Fishing was very good, though slow early, like it has been for about two weeks. I say slow. We’re still catching fish but from about 7:00am – 9:00am it just doesn’t get kicking until about 9:00 unless they turn on water. Midges are usually doing best then and the scuds pick up around 9:00. They caught them on a bunch of stuff today. I must admit the brown #18 G-Bug was still #1 with the ginger very strong later in the day. We caught a lot of fish on black, olive and red #18 GLB Zebras. Smidges in olive, brown and ginger in #20’s and #22’s were very good. Even caught a few on a brown and gray G-bug doing a little experimenting. Fishing??? It was great! They got no water for about 7 hours of their 8 hour plus trip. Big trout were in the 17″ class with a couple that got away bigger than that. Numbers of fish were around 100 I’d guess. Like I say before every trip…you’ll catch one fish for every 5 bites you get and that was about right. …
Gary‘s Current Report: October 9– 0710-0830 water off conditions. Went fishing with my friend Duane (Mac) McCammon. Fished from Lookout Hole about half way to Fall Creek with the boat out far enough to cast back into the “channel”. Mac used a fly rod and I used my spin float system. We both used orvis Miage 6x tippet. Mac stayed pretty close to 3 1/2 feet all the way down and I stayed at 4 feet. Between us we caught over 30 fish in the 10-15 inch range with most of them in the 11-14 inch range. Mac all of his fish on the size 16 Red Tungsten Bead Head Midge. Although I caught the magority of my fish using the a 1/100 ounce River Run Peach Jig when it slowed down I finihsed the day using the the size 16 Red Tungsten Bead Head Midge too. We fished both sides of the boat and it seemed like one of us had a fish on most of the time.
Guide Bob Klein: October 9- No change from Bob Klein, of “Bob’s Guide Service“. Fishing
Water On Conditions – Orange and Chartreuse Power eggs with the Chartreuse on shank of hook and the Orange on tip, white Power Eggs, or inflated night crawlers bounced off the bottom using the standard “Lake Taneycomo Drift Rig.” which is readily available at all Marinas and most resorts on the Lake.
Get Your Lake Taneycomo Questions Answered:Bob, Gary, Brett, and Stan will be monitoring the Outdoor Activities Forum on the Branson.Com Message Board . If you have any fishing questions on LakeTaneycomo just ask.Use the word “Taneycomo” in the Search Function and enter it in all your posts so they’ll show up.
