9/20/2020 short session

[MOBass]

I fished a short session yesterday with a couple of guys from my gym.  We put in at the Branson campground ramp around 10:00AM and ran up past the island.  No water running, wind pushing us towards the darn, water color was clear with a slight green tinge.  The water did to seem to take on more color as we drifted and we turned around as it got to a green, slight brown tinge.

Normally I hug the island side, but for some reason I hit the other side of the lake and I am glad we did.  We had steady action on hard pulling rainbows and had a few times where three or four would follow a hooked fish to the boat.  The hot ticket was a white and red or white and pink power egg combo.  White and green was not getting bit nearly as well.  I did throw a tiny swim bait and had a lot of short bites and followers.

The quality of the fish was very good.  Half were full of scuds and a couple had really nice salmon colored meat.  Most had a power egg or three in them also.

We left the fish biting around 12:30.  The photo is a couple of representative samples.