Branson Globe's weekly fishing report: July 6, 2022

By GARY J. GROMAN, Independent Journalist

TABLE ROCK LAKE

Level at 6 a.m. July 6, 2022 is 916.76. The Summer Power Pool is 917.0. Fishing reports:

• Guide Eric Prey: Has fished Table Rock six days during the week. Generally, lake wide, the fishing is good. Early and late, you can catch bass on top water baits if cloudy. If not cloudy, use a drop shot rig or jig such as a Hail Mary colored Pee Well Football jig. As it warms up you can catch them on swim baits, or a drop shot rig with nightcrawlers or a Plum-colored Chompers Drop Shot Worm. Like last week, most of the drop shot fish are fairly deep, 25 to 35 feet deep on gravel points of the main lake or suspended in treetops in the creeks.

(Contact Eric through www.focusedfishing.com or by calling 417-860-4743.)

LAKE TANEYCOMO

Lake level at 6 a.m. July 6, 2022 is 705.02 with a generation of 2667 cfs. Lake levels and current speed will fluctuate during the day as power is generated from Table Rock Dam. The pattern over the past week has low generation, less than 40 mwh (2776 cfs) or off, during early morning hours with increases coming later in the day.

• Guide Pete Lenard: Fishing has been great! They are running a half unit, so the slow drift has been good for fishing! Egg and a scud in the Trophy Area and night crawler outside the Trophy Area fishing both on a drift rig.

(Contact Pete at 417-543-0340.)

• Megan Wright, Scotty’s Trout Dock: The fishing this week has been excellent with many people catching their limits. The best baits have been nightcrawlers, rainbow Power Bait Eggs and Berkeley or Gulp Pink Worms. In the mornings, because the water has either been off or less than 40 mwh, they can be fished either on a float system or a drift rig with just enough weight to get your bait where you want it. When fishing from the bank in the city’s Lakeside RV Park she suggests using a drift rig with enough weight to get your bait out past the grass. A weight between 3/16th and 1/4 of an ounce will get it out there. In the afternoon, she suggests that the best result will be had using night crawlers or Power Bait with enough weight to get the bait to the bottom. When fishing from the bank in the city’s Lakeside Camp Ground she suggests using a drift rig with enough weight to get your bait out past the grass Another option is spoons such as the Thomas Boyant or Little Cleo.

Megan’s tip of the week: If nothing happens after 20 minutes, change it up. For the most recent report, trout fishing advice, boat rentals stop by Scotty’s, your one stop trout fishing headquarters, visit them on the web at www. scottystroutdock.com or call 417-334-4288.

• Guide and maker of the DD Series Jerk Baits Duane Doty: He has fished the Lake Taneycomo multiple times daily during the week. He specializes in artificial baits in the Lake Taneycomo’s Trophy Trout Area at the upper end of the lake and rates the fishing as extremely good to excellent.

In the first few hours of the morning when they are generating .5 to one generator, he has had great results using a drift rig with size 14 scuds, colored medium to dark grey or tan with a little bit of gold. Size 14 UV Orange Eggs also work well at that time. With the water off he has been using 1/32 jigs. With the water off, he’s had success straight lining 1/32 ounce jigs. The colors he recommends are black with black head or sculpin and ginger with an orange head.

Duane specializes in night fishing on Lake Taneycomo. Just before dark with .5 to one generator running, he uses the same scud set up he uses in the early morning hours. As darkness moves in, he switches to jerk baits colored either sculpin or rainbow trout in his DD Signature Series 762. Once it gets completely dark, he switches to DD Signature 762 Darth Maul.

• Guide Pete Lenard: Fishing has been great! They are running a half unit so the slow drift has been good for fishing! Egg and a scud in the Trophy Area and night crawler outside the Trophy Area fishing both on a drift rig.

(Contact Pete at 417-543-0340.)

• Guide Rick Lisek: Fished Lake Taneycomo multiple times a day for over five days last week reporting that the fishing has been excellent. Early in the morning without much generation a green olive or ginger micro jig or a size 16 Copper Head Black Scud has been working in the Trophy Area. When the water’s on, straight lining an orange headed sculpin works great. Outside of the Trophy Area drifting nightcrawlers or a pink or orange micro jig under an indicator has been catching a lot of fish.

(Contact Rick through his website www.bransonguidedfishingtrips.com or by calling 417-224- 5108.)