Taneycomo Nights is a nighttime guide service ran and operated by Leonard Keeney. Leonard was born and raised in Branson Missouri. He began fly fishing when he was 15 years old and has been fishing Lake Taneycomo for over 25 years.
Here at Taneycomo Nights Leonard will offer some of the best nighttime fly-fishing or spin cast fishing on a trout lake.
Leonard has the only full time -night time guide service on Lake Taneycomo. He does not guide during the day.
Lake Taneycomo is a man made lake that is part of the White River system. The two dams separated it, Powersite dam completed around 1913 and Table Rock dam built in the late 1950's. Just over 20 miles long, Lake Taneycomo runs all the way through Taney County Missouri, this is how the lake was named. Lake Taneycomo generates power from the water out of the bottom of Table Rock Lake. This water is colder and is the temperature trout need to survive. Lake Taneycomo produces some very large rainbow trout and some gigantic brown trout. In the right conditions it is possible to catch a rainbow over 10 pounds and a Brown in excess of 20 pounds. In early spring big bows begin to spawn and in the fall the browns come in what is called the trophy fishing area.
Being a trophy trout fishery, and nestled in the Ozark hills near the tourist destination of Branson, Lake Taneycomo can see a lot of fishing pressure during the day, but at night things generally settle down and the fishing heats up. Some nights there is nobody fishing, and in the fall there can some times be a crowd of 20 or more.
Leonard fishes over 20 nights per month, averaging over 200 nights a year. He's logged 1000’s of hours on the water at night, and knows some of the best location to fish after the sun goes down. He chooses to tie most of the flies that he uses since they have proven to be very effective over the past several years.