Springfield Directory

The word “consistency” isn’t in the fishing dictionary — except maybe when it comes to the generation schedule on Lake Taneycomo lately.  It definitely hasn’t pertained to catching trout here on our lake.  Weather patterns may have  contributed to t...

No spring rains.  That’s the headline for this Taneycomo fishing report.  Not a whole lot of rain the last 10 months.  I think the whole Midwest and other parts of the country are in the same boat.  How’s that affect our trout fishing?  Basically do...

This has not been a typical spring start for Lake Taneycomo. Our area is still in a drought; although we’ve had some rain this winter it has not been enough to keep our lakes above power pool levels.  And it’s been very warm except for a couple of v...

Lake Taneycomo is open all year!  Today is not our opening day for trout season since we are not a trout park.  There are four trout parks in Missouri – Roaring River Bennett Springs Montauk and Meramac Springs.  We do get calls and emails asking ab...

Two weeks ago people were saying we were crazy out fishing in single digit weather.  But trout fishing was excellent!  And the main reason it was so good was they were running water — heavy flows.  Of course it didn’t hurt that shad were coming thro...