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- The Combat-Fishing (tm) Guide to Branson's Lake Taneycomo
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- Description --
152pp over 100 ilustrations, maps, and aerial photos with marked fishing spots
The Combat-Fishing TM Guide to Branson’s Lake Taneycomo is a work full of pictures, maps, aerial photos, and highly detailed information that will allow anyone from beginner to expert to find fish, lodging, food, and fun. Detailed descriptions and plentiful tutorials and figures cover every mile of this world class trout water, and disclose all the cherished secret spots and methods. A section on the ecology of the lake will provide a visiting angler with a deep understanding of the game fish and forage species of the lake and why they behave the way they do. The author attacks this water like a battle, and will provide the reader an enjoyable look at the fishing water next to the world renown live music destination. Whether you are reading with intention of traveling to Branson, live nearby it, or never intend to step foot in Missouri, you will become a more knowledgeable angler.
- Here is an Excerpt from the Introduction --
"The sun is on the eastern horizon, making a purple pink pastel painting of the sky while the moon is still hanging in the west. The fog is so thick you cannot see the anglers or the water that await 30 feet below the slippery, well worn wooden steps that lead from the rocky parking area into the foggy abyss.
On the right, parallel to the stairs, of the stair the second hatchery outlet forms a near perfect replica of a small roaring mountain stream, complete with 15 inch rainbow trout in full rose and crimson colors that bob, jockey, weave between each other in the current to snap up any morsel that drifts past. You begin your careful decent down the stairs, encumbered by your thick waders and fleece jacket, and as you decent you are engulfed by the fog, and hear the hatchery outlet waters become a waterfall. As you continue to descend you begin to make out the ghostly shapes of your fellow anglers, and hear a new sound: splashing fish and whipping fly casts. As you hit the water and move out into the lake-cum-river and feel bumps
against your legs as 12 to 20 inch rainbows dog your steps like puppies. Gazing over the surface you make out fins and backs breaking the surface like sharks cruising for a meal, the distance between some of these dorsal fins and tails is over 20 inches though you are doubting what your eyes perceive through the gloom. Your first cast lands perpendicular and out into the swifter deeper water as your crackleback gently lands on the surface. Your intent is to let it drift downstream before pulling it under, however a three-foot brown trout decides its breakfast time and with a light ‘plop’ inhales it. Quicker than you can react the beast has felt the prick of your #18 hook and using its years of experience it knows instinctively that a swift run may part the leader. Before your conscious brain acknowledges the take, the brown has used her 1-centimeter teeth and 20 mile per hour speed to part your four-pound tippet.
Welcome to Lake Taneycomo."
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