Beautiful Day

[mke22]

My dad and I had a great day yesterday morning floating Bennett Springs to Barclay.    Water was still a bit swift but landed 20 trout between the two of us.  Three were over 15" inches with lots of additional hits, mostly rainbows with about 4-5 browns.   A few smallmouth and goggle-eye were caught as well.  Also had a beautiful golden colored trout on that shook off (didn't look like a brown though) so not sure if anyone knows if there are periodically  caught other trout species in the Niangua or not (from the hatchery overflow year or something else).    We used mostly crankbaits yesterday in various colors and diving depths  including light purple/pink,  orange/gold, and silver/rainbow trout looks,.    Also some crawdad imitations worked well too.  Good luck all.