Weekly Branson.Com Lake Taneycomo Fishing Report – August 22 August 22, 2013 at 05:45PM Central Pro Am Association Fishing Guide Eric Prey BRANSON, Mo., August 22, 2013 — The most comprehensive fishing report available Branson’s Lake Taneycomo submitted by people who fish the lake on just about a daily basis. As used in this report “Trophy Area” refers the portion of Branson’s Lake Taneycomo between the mouth of Fall Creek and the base of Table Rock Dam. It is the primary wade fishing area, a trophy management area and has special regulations and limits in effect within the area. Natural baits, Gulp and soft plastic baits are illegal in Trophy Area. but ok for the other 19 miles of Lake Taneycomo. Lake Taneycomo – by Eric Prey, FocusedFishing Constant generation has kept fish active and feeding all week . The best patterns for Branson fishing guides this past week have been: Shad or white marabou jigs have stayed the most productive option this week; cast jigs upstream and work them close to the bottom all the way back to the boat. Zig Jig marabou jigs have been very effective around current breaks. Cast the jig beyond cover or into eddies and work it back with an erratic stop and go retrieve. Live night crawlers on a drift rig have been producing well, areas on the lake where shoals extend out toward the middle of the lake causing a current break have been some of the best fishing with crawlers. Cast up stream and drift with current to waiting Taneycomo trout. Gulp and Power Bait Eggs cast upstream allowing the current to drift the boat downstream over flats and drop offs with mixed colors of eggs was a dominate pattern. Trout Magnets continue to produce below a float, 6’ – 8’ of line below the float with anything pink will put trout in the boat even when there is no generation. Micro Marabou jigs have been a top producer in sloughs and creek mouths where current is a little slack cast with or without a float and work the areas where current creates an eddy thoroughly The trout fishing on Lake Taneycomo continues to be excellent Submitted by Eric Prey, FocusedFishing Don’t Miss Eric’s Tournament Fishing Radio on ESPN 1400 AM SpringfieldMondays 5:30pm and Saturdays 5:00 am or on-line at espn1400 Phil Lilley Lake Taneycomo by Phil Lilley, Ozark Anglers Generation patterns have changed drastically since my last fishing report. Table Rock Lake’s levels have dropped back to “safe” levels and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has reduced the water flow in the last few days. The flood gates were shut down last week and most days with only two units usually running. This has allowed for easier fishing for most, even fishing off most docks. There’s been several stocking boat sightings in the last few days, too, meaning more rainbows have been stocked. I’m sure Missouri Department of Conservation and Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery folk are readying the lake for the holiday weekend around the corner. Our annual Guns and Hoses benefit trout tournament was a success. Just short of $4,000 was raised for the benevolence fund for Branson police and firemen families. Exactly $1,000 was raised in the raffles, money going to a young policemen’s daughter with leukemia. We weighed some heavy rainbows. It took over nine pounds to win in a field of 24 teams. Tom Burckhardt and Bill Freise won first place with 9.32 pounds, and Tom caught the biggest trout, a 2.32-pound rainbow. John Hittler and Frank Dietl weighed in 9.02 pounds, good enough for second place, and Mike Riffel and Greg Multisch took third with 8.78 pounds. All these fish were caught on marabou jigs. When the flood gates were opened last week, lots and lots of shad came over the top from Table Rock, and our trout ate very well. Since they were shut, the water has cooled back down to 48 degrees, and the trout are now looking for small, silver shad. Back in 2011, after the flood gates were shut down, we still saw schools of shad swimming in the eddies of Lake Taneycomo, at least in the first five miles of the lake. Although I have not seen any yet, I’m sure we still have shad up here and our trout are gorging on them. I fished Monday with a couple of friends, Brian Wright and Joe Cermele. Joe threw a big streamer while Brian and I worked our marabou jigs. The morning definitely was the best time, and the trout liked our white jigs. Joe’s efforts garnered lots of looks and follows but not many strikes. They trout we caught were larger than normal, fatter than normal and very colorful. We also caught quite a few medium-sized brown trout in various areas. I cast a hopper at the banks for part of the day Tuesday but didn’t get one rise. However, Steve Brigman said he caught four really nice trout on a hopper yesterday, mainly on the bank on the south side of the lake from the cable down to the first island. The hopper bite just hasn’t taken off for me yet on Taney this summer. While the gates were opened last week, our guides reported finding higher than normal numbers of freshwater shrimp in the bellies of their rainbows, caught below Fall Creek. Some started bottom drifting #10 gray or brown scuds on drift rigs from Fall Creek to Trout Hollow, staying on the shallow, flat side of the lake, and not the bluff side. Anglers are also faring well drifting a cerise-colored San Juan worm in tandem under the scud. I took some friends fishing late Sunday afternoon. We drifted either from Fall Creek to Trout Hollow or from the River Pointe Estates boat ramp to Trout Hollow and stayed middle/shallow side. We used one white PowerBait Gulp egg over a half a night crawler, and they caught about 20 rainbows and two small browns in less than two hours. It was an effective way to drift bait since the Gulp egg floated the worm off the bottom. Two gentlemen who stayed at the resort from Tuesday until Friday last week told me they caught and released 185 trout. They even had a clicker/counter to keep exact count. Their secret? They drifted from the dam down to Fall Creek using a 1/8th-ounce Kastmaster spoon. They reported having the fishing trip of a lifetime even though they have been enjoying Taneycomo for years! Today, it appears generation will be geared down with less than one unit during morning hours building to two units by mid-afternoon. That’s a very good pattern, if it holds. But I expect the water will be shut down down altogether at least sometime during the day on the weekends. If we don’t get any rain between now and next weekend, we should see quite a bit of down water on Labor Day weekend. Submitted by Phil Lilley, Ozark Anglers As part of its continuing commitment to serving the community, Branson Tourism Center (BTC), one of Branson’s largest and most respected sellers of vacation planning services, Branson show tickets, attraction tickets and lodging is proud to sponsor this fishing report, the Central Pro-Am Association. BTC can be reached by calling 800-785-1550 or by visiting their website BransonTourismCenter. The Central Pro Am Association through such sponsorship and that of Ranger Boats and Mercury Marine is pleased to participate in furnishing this information to those fishing the Branson Tri-Lakes area. bit.ly/1778PvE
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