Opening Day Report

[shawncat]

....started feb.1st walking bank just below C&R sign at bull shoals state park thowing barbless white x rap,son barbless 1/8 white roostertail.....both lures hooked up after first cast.Got checked by game warden right at C&R sign.Nice guy,gave me some info and told me barbs looked good.Ended up c&r'ing about 8-10 fish,12"-!3"

Switched to flesh fly and big puff balls in orange and pink on fly rod and picked up 3 more.Moved downriver to partee shoals and hooked up 10-12 more.....fish were fatter with more color and seemed to fight more.....but it was rapids so that could be expected.

Sunday got snowed in for most part[about 4" snow] and rented boat Monday on 3 generators.C&R was slow with only couplo 12"-!3" caught,ended up floating state park when they shut down to 1 geney using rooster tails,pink and white jigs,wht/flo power egss,air injected crawlers and put a pretty good eater stringer to take home[13"-!5"]

.....first pic is minimum flow 50 degrees[water was a little deeper but I didn't notice any more current pressure]

second pic is 1 unit,11 degrees and 4" snow.

third pic is fatty from partee shoal,which are a little different from silver bullets in state park[way more color,orange fins with white tips]

[shawncat]

rainbow

[Lancer09]

Man I love those white tipped fins.

[Quillback]

Yep, good color on that bow.

[shawncat]

....thanks for replies gentleman,color is nice but rock snot [didymo] is discouraging in pic.