Stained Or Clear Water Lake?

[lonkm]

Is Bull Shoals considered a stained or clear water lake or both? I fish from Diamond City to Forsyth. If I drop a white jig down, it usually disappers about 1 to 2 ft down. I guess that is stained. Yet I catch most of my fish on a natural colored bait, instead of some bright color. Just wondering. Thanks

[Old plug]

That is not surprising that you catch them on natural colors. I tend to go with either light or dark colors when buying a lot of my stuff for lakes. I just try to get something That has amore natural color in appearance than stark bright colors. I have close to 200 -10 to 12 inch plastic worms in my locker. They are all in some shade of mostly brown. On the other hand I have most of my trick type worms in lighter or natural colors . The bass pro shops Houdini color is a good example of what I mean and has been especially good to me in trick type worms About the only wild color use is pink. There is something about Pink. But like anything else it is no miracle worker. I think a lot if the color mania is to catch fisherman mostly.

[moguy1973]

Upper is probably more stained since it's more river like. The lower sure is clear though. At least it was last year around Oakland. We could see down 20' easy.