Lake Taneycomo's clear cold waters provide some of the finest trout fishing available anywhere in the world. The Rainbow and Brown Trout that live in the waters of Lake Taneycomo, provide a year round fishing experience that is exciting as well as varied. From Fly Fishing and artificial only fishing in Lake Taneycomo's Trophy Trout Area, near her Headwaters, to bait fishing outside of the Trophy Trout Waters, Lake Taneycomo offers Rainbow and Brown Trout fishing at its best all year round. From 1913 until 1958 it was a "warm water" lake. 

The completion of Table Rock Dam in 1958, 22 miles upstream at White River Mile 528.8, created a physical southern boundary for the Lake which now consists of over 2,080 surface acres. Virtually overnight, a "cold water" fishery was created because of the temperature of water coming through the generators of Table Rock Dam as its water is used for the generation of power.  To take advantage of this change the Missouri Department of Conservation constructed the "Shepherd of the Hills Trout Hatchery" at the foot of the Dam. Today Lake Taneycomo is one of the best trout fisheries in the nation. A State Record Brown Trout was caught in the Summer of 1994.

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