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Trophy Trout Pictures
“At Taneycomo Trout Fly Fishing Guide Service, we take special care to treat our trophy brown trout and large rainbow trout with care during the picture-taking process. Fly fishing on the White River, Norfork Tailwater, and Lake Taneycomo outside of Branson, Missouri offer up plenty of chances to catch big trout, and we understand that almost everyone, including White River fly fishing guides, love to look at pictures of big trout. Below you will find recent photos of some of the trophy trout we have been fortunate enough to land, and the other sections display fly fishing success from previous months.”
Pictures from reports October 22 and November 12 2009 - A few more browns caught on the White.
This brown was caught right below the docks at Gaston's.
This brown was caught right up from the Narrows.
Pictures from Darren's report November 13 2009 - Darren and his son Jordan fishing Dry Run Creek for the third time.
Jordan gets a few more big fish fpr the record books.
Jordan's big rainbow for the day.
Pictures from report October 18 2009 - Dry Run Creek, and what a creek it is...
Jordan had the day of his life. Bunch of browns.
Great shot of a gorgeous brown
Jordan's fisrt big bow of the day.
The brown of the day.
Pictures from report October 7-12 2009 - All kinds of strange things happened through the course of the week.
Summer doesn't get to fish much right now, but when she does, she always catches something nice.
Darren hooked this cutthroat at the same time Summer hooked her brown. Now that doesn't happen all the time.
I caught this walleye up at Bull Shoals Dam. I thought it was a brown, but soon realized it was to ugly to be that as I was bringing it closer to the boat.
It's always strange when you catch warmwater species in a cold type fishery. It was the first for me at the dam.
Pictures from report October 14-15 2009 - And the winning streak continues for big browns. Only this time it happen to be three for one client.
AKA Colorado John with this nice 20 inch brown caught up at the dam.
Kevin with his first brown on his first cast of the day.
Kevin with his second on his second cast of the day.
His third on his third cast of the day.
Mark caught this cutthroat on a chernobyl dry up at the dam.
This beauty of a rainbow fell victim of a streamer at Bull Shoals Dam.
Pictures from report September 22,23 2009 - Two nice browns in a row.
Layne hooked this brown fishing at Rim Shoals
John's brown caught at Bull Shoals Dam
Pictures from report September 21 2009 - Fishing Bull Shoals Dam
Jim's brown trout of the day.
These browns are starting to color up.
Pictures from report September 15 2009 - Darren and I spent the morning at the guantlet hole.
The start of the brown run, with many more to come.
This brown has some markings, due to the pre-spawn.
Pictures from report June 11 2009 - Fishing Taneycomo in the morning.
Doug with this beautiful 16 inch browny.
Up close and personal.
Pictures from report june 7 2009 - Darren went back the next day and hook into this brown using the "miracle" fly. I know he's a believer in this awesome pattern!!
Darren hooked this fish at the "guantlet hole".
Solid rainbow caught up at the dam.
Pictures from report June 6-7 2009 - Big brown caught at Taneycomo over the weekend.
This female had a huge girth.
Taking a few underwater shots.
Underwater face shot.
Side profile, look at the spots.
Pictures from report May 29 2009 - Bob and Gary had a great day throwing streamers all day.
Bob's first brown caught right above Hurst Hole.
His second brown was caught below Roundhouse Shoals
Gary hooked this brown right before Cotter bridge.
Gary's first brown of the morning,
Pictures from report May 25 2009- Fished a stream that had some good looking wild rainbow trout.
One of the prettiest rainbows I've caught this year.
This rainbow already has shoulders and a kype.
Pictures from report May 17-18 2009 - Mark caught this brown throwing streamers at Wildcat Shoals in 3,000 cfs.
Mark with this brown caught past the shoals at Wildcat.
Nice colored brown caught up at the dam.
Pictures from reports April 11-20 2009 - Having really good days on the White, why would you want to go anywhere else.
Another awesome day at the dam hooking big rainbows.
Adoff was loving life right about now.
Double trouble, We had about twenty of these throughout the day.
Micheal and Casey with two nice rainbows.
Doc was the lucky one today. Tons of nice rainbows
Look at Rod behind him. Big smiles all day. We must of caught sixty that day.
Doc had many rainbows this size.
Doc with the first cutthroat of the year at the White River dam.
Look how many caddis are flying in the air. It was thick!
This is right about dark. That's when they really get thick on the water surface. That's also when trout really start keying in on them.
Caddis going through the cycle in the boat.
No caddis left, but these were all over my boat from the day before.
John's cute little browny caught on streamers.
Great spot to wade in heavy generations.
Another White River wild browny.
This brown was caught at Airport Hole.
Pictures from report on March 22nd 2009 - Randall, Ty and I float from Rim to Ranchette and hook a nice female the start of the day at Rim Shoals.
Randall hooked this 24 inch brown about 30 minutes into the day.
Fat Rainbow, I guess this fish is finding some food.
Pictures from report on March 21st 2009 - Jon got to hit alot of different waters. From Wildcat to Rim Shoals, we even fished Dry Run Creek, which we learned a valuable lesson. Read it in the report.
Jon with a average brown in the 16 inch class.
A male rainbow caught at Dry Run Creek.
Report from March 18th 2009 - Scott's two brown's caught on the White River in 30-150 mega watts.
Scott was pleased with this one, but I wasn't.
This one sealed the deal. Alot better!!
Jordan with this 26 inch rainbow.
And then followed up with this nice brown.
Pictures from report on March 15th 2009 - Derek had luck on his side today. Even with all the boat traffic we had, we still managed to hook these two beautiful browns.
This brown came about a hour into the day.
This brown was hooked right in front of Dale Fulton's place.
Pictures from report on March 13th 2009 - John and I fished from 7am till 10am..and hooked some nice browns floating from Wildcat to Cotter.
First brown of the day hooked at Airport Hole
A little over 20 inches with great uniform.
22 inch brown caught in some great looking water.
John with this 18 inch brown.
Pictures from report March 11th 2009 - Jason Charlton (Korker Boots) and Ty Ingram (TFO rep.) drifting the White River banging streamers along the banks for several miles.
Jason with this nice looking 22 inch brown caught on the White River.
Another brown for the books.
Pictures for report February 12-13th 2009 - Dan and Jeff with two browns that were both caught thirty minutes before the trip ended.
Dan caught this brown just below The Narrows fishing a big streamer along the bank.
Jeff caught this brown about three cast later fishing the same bank.
Pictures from John who went out on February 9th (Monday) and had a killer day hooking multiple browns. The big browns are here!!!
This brown hammered a sculpin pattern on the swing.
This hen took a beadhead scud.
Pictures from report January 23rd 2009 - Did a quick drift from the State Park to Gaston's boat ramp.
This little brown came from the slack water about 200 yards up from Cane Island.
We have ourselves a blue eyed brown.
Pictures from report January 22nd 2009 - Drifted from Rim Shoals to Buffalo City. The most scenic float so far!!
Caught this brown 30 minutes into the day.
Another great pose for the camera.
What a good looking rainbow caught at Rim Shoals
Had to get a close up of this fish.
This brown was caught below Shoestring Shoals.
This cute brown came from the bottom of Fletcher's Hole
Pictures from report January 21st 2009 - Larry and Jeremy drifted from State Park to White Hole, because we ran out of time to go all the way to Wildcat Shoals.
Larry with a brown just up from Bruce Creek.
Got to love these close ups. Notice the turquoise color on his cheek plate.
This fish was hooked right at the beginning of the shoal at the state park. Awesome water!!!
Not bad for an underwater shot.
Pictures from report January 19th 2009 - John and Jeremy drifted from Cotter to Rim Shoals...and both had a shot at two brown's.
John's Roundhouse Shoals browny.
This brown came right up from Roundhouse Shoals.
Pictures from report January 18th 2009 - Summer and I with two nice browns caught through Wildcat Shoals.
Summer's brown caught right below the shoals at Wildcat.
Caught this brown in between the shoals at Wildcat.
Pictures from report January 7th 2009 - John and I with two nice browns
John with this beautiful brown.
You got to love close ups.
Nice 17 inch rainbow drifting through Cane Island.
Another close up. Had to get one of the cheek.
Pictures for report January 3rd 2009 - John with a bow and a good sunset shot at Cotter
John with this great looking bow who fell for a black bucktail/marabou streamer.
Nice sunset taking out at Cotter boat ramp. Notice the seagull, they're here...
Pictures for report December 14th 2008- Randall & Me
This is Randall fishing with me a third time. Once again he's rewarded with a nice brown.
Beautiful brown caught five minutes before Randall's
Report for November 14th 2008 - Phil's brown caught at Norfork in 2 units
Phil landed this brown "literally" on the last cast of the day.
Close up and personal
Underwater shot of this fine specimen
This brown let us get a good shot after releasing it.
Two nice underwater shots I had to put up here. You can't beat fly fishing, and that's real.
This rainbow is cruising in shallow (spawning) water.
These fish are around the dominant one, which you can clearly see is on a redd.
