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The Combat-Fishing Guide to Branson's Lake Taneycomo

by Bryce L. Meyer

152 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-0135; ISBN 1-4120-2307-6; US$19.50, C$25.00, EUR16.25, £11.26

A comprehensive fishing, travel, and nature guide to a world class trout spot right next to the live music capital of the world - Branson, Missouri and Lake Taneycomo.

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About the Book 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.

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About the Author

The author is a fishing addict first, and everything else second. A resident currently of Missouri (where he grew up), he as lived in California, Florida, Virginia, and Colorado. He has a Bachelors degreee in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, a Masters in Computer Science from the University of West Florida, and is persuing a Masters in Biology from the Univeristy of Missouri St. Louis. He spent 7 years in the USAF, exiting as a Captain, and spent three semesters teaching at the Virginia Military Institute. He currently works as an "internet geek" with a major internet backbone provider. The education is nice and pays the bills, but fishing time on the water is what he really counts as worthwhile. He has been fishing since age 2 (roughly 30 years) and fished the entire lower 48 US States, and in Mexico. He seeks to apply odd techniques and methods to assure fishing success and attacks a fishing problem like an engineering design. He also created and runs the website www.combat-fishing.com.

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Table of Contents and excerpts

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INDEX

INTRODUCTION

A Fall Morning

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 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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Catalogue Information

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