Another good family outing on MTL
Just got back and unpacked from our second consecutive weekend camping/fishing at MTL. Stayed at RB again, fished all around the eastern end of the lake, north and south of the dam - just hitting "favorite spots", mostly 20-30' of water on rocky points.
Still catching 7" fish at about 6:1 vs 9" fish, but we cleaned 4 limits on Saturday, and another 20 or so this morning. Biggest fish on roadrunners and slab busters, but most fish caught on minnows.
Got off the lake by lunchtime Saturday when it got too choppy to fish on the main channel points, and when we went back out to fish the late afternoon through dusk the bite had tailed off. Back on this morning though. Sure wish we could consistently catch the larger fish at MTL like we do at LOZ and Truman. Oh well - still better than not catching.
Added a couple of decent channel cats and one nice big flathead to the mix (trotline), and ended up with three big bags of fish for the next fry.
Beautiful weather, tanned my noggin', and the kids got along well enough so that we didn't have to beat them. All in all a darned good time. Back to work tomorrow though.
Teach your kids to hunt and fish and you won't have to hunt for your kids !!