![]() ![]() This, in turn, causes the water flowing into Taneycomo to hold more oxygen for trout. During late fall Table Rock Lake, which feeds Taneycomo, turns over, inverting the waters. Winter is often the best season for trout fishing on Taneycomo. Lake Taneycomo, that runs through the heart of Branson, is one of the best trout fisheries in the Midwest. Winter Trout Fishing - One of Branson's Best Kept Secrets Lake Taneycomo Tournaments Keep Cabin Fever at Bayīranson, Mo. If the hook is down deep in the trout’s throat, cut the line don’t pull it out. All a dry rag does is wipe all the protective slim from a trout’s body, leaving it susceptible to bacteria and disease. One more pointer-when handling rainbows in the boat or on the dock, if you’re going to release the fish, handle the trout with a WET rag, not a dry one. Gulp colors that have been good are white/orange and white/pink. You could slide a Gulp floating egg up above the night crawler to float it off the bottom, too. Inject the worm with some air to get it off the bottom and only use half at a time. Night crawlers are catching larger rainbows than Power Bait but either bait is good. Keep several colors handy to try-sculpin, olive, brown, ginger and the combo colors with sculpin, ginger, peach and orange. If you’re using two-pound line, throw a 1/16 th-ounce jig, but if you’re using four-pound line, throw a 3/32 nd-ounce jig. Use two-pound line if you dare but four-pound is okay. I bet if we had tied on a red San Juan worm and a #12 gray “peppy” scud on two-pound line with a small split shot, we would have slayed the rainbows drifting in the same area.īelow Fall Creek, fishing with a jig-and-float or throwing a jig straight should be one of the best techniques in catching fish this weekend. We stayed from the middle to the shallow side of the lake. With the water running yesterday, we drifted pink 1/125 th-ounce marabou jigs under a float four feet deep from Lookout to Fall Creek and picked up rainbows here and there. We threw sculpin-, sculpin/peach- and sculpin/ginger-colored jigs. We caught a couple of rainbows pushing 19 inches, but most of the other trout were closer to 14 inches. ![]() With no generation and very little wind, the trout bit fairly well. Rainbows stocked in Taneycomo are supposed to average more than 11 inches in length.Įarlier in the week, I fished between Lookout and Fall Creek and threw 1/16 th-ounce jigs using two-pound line. That may be the reason Shepherd is holding its rainbows and letting the Neosho ones take up the slack. Colder than normal temperatures will slow the rate of rainbows’ growth. I’m getting 39 degrees when I’m out in the boat below the dam while the water is running. Clint Hale, hatchery manager, told me they’re getting 42-degree water from their intake. I think our normal water temperature for February should be in the mid- to upper 40’s. Our water temperature is very cold for this time of year. These rainbows typically are smaller although, learning the almost all our rainbows stocked in the last three months have come from Neosho, I know they’ve stocked some decent rainbows too. The Missouri Department of Conservation’s Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery has stocked its fish once this week down in the Landing area, while they have stocked rainbows from the federal hatchery in Neosho several more times this week. Surprisingly, some of these rainbows were larger than the rainbows I caught earlier in the week in the trophy area, but there were a lot of dinks, too. The rainbows liked it! We caught rainbows, one after the other, for two hours. Between the boat traffic and a breeze every once in a while, the surface was broken enough to keep the jig moving. We took the boat out and went up past Short Creek to the Riverpoint boat ramp (south side of the lake), kept the boat a little south of center and fished to the deep side using an olive micro jig, two-pound line and a float, setting the depth at five feet. The funniest and most successful trip was Wednesday when I got to fish with Guide Vince Elfrink. I’ve done quite a bit of fishing this week, so some of my report is firsthand. I’ve told lots of people that the Corps probably wouldn’t run any water until this warm spell passes and we’re back to winter weather, but yesterday the Corps made me a liar. Generation has ceased except for a weird two-unit all-day run yesterday, which made no sense to me. This morning we actually had fog on the lake from the cold water and warm, humid air, just as in summer months. It’s mid-February.īut for now, boating on the lake is better than tolerable it’s quite nice. Yesterday we set a record high of 73 degrees, and the forecast is looking like spring is here. Seven days ago, we were setting record low temperatures below zero. ![]()
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