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Posted 03/25/2004
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout fishing is really good using wax worms with marshmallows, chartreuse power eggs, and spoons Report by Ripple Outfitters Fishing has been good to excellent depending mostly on the condition of the river. Trout fishing in the Guion area
continues to be good. The better trout are being caught on artificial baits such as
Countdown Rapala, blue and silver Rogue, spoons, such as, Little Cleo's in the 1/4 ounce
gold, and Rooster Tail inline spinners. Anchor fishing and drift fishing both continue to
be the most effective way to catch a limit of fish. Anchor fishing with corn, Power Eggs,
and worms is working well. Drift fishing with spinners with silver or gold blades tipped
with corn, Power Eggs, Salmon eggs, corn, or worms are catching fish too. Crappie fishing has been pretty good
in the last few days with good numbers being caught. Small minnows fished 18 to 24 inches
beneath a bobber in the brush and logjams in the creeks have been the ticket. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 462.5 Temperature: Outflow: 40 cfs. Level: 1.25 feet low Walleye No Report Kentucky Bass fair using grubs in 20 feet of water Smallmouth Bass fair using grubs in 20 feet of water Whites Bass good in 40 feet of water using small spoons Largemouth Bass fair using jerk or spinner baits Crappie good using minnows or chartreuse or white jigs in the timber Channel Catfish No Report Spotted Bass No Report Bream No Report Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4 Temperature: Outflow: 20 cfs. Level: 4.61 feet low Crappie good using minnows and jigs in 6 to 12 feet of water around the brush piles Stripers No ReportLargemouth Bass good using crank baits and rogues White Bass No ReportCatfish No ReportReport by Ripple Outfitters No Report Temperature: 52 Report by Ripple Outfitters River is low but still floatable Smallmouth Bass good using hula grubs and jigs updated 03/12/04 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0 Temperature: Outflow: 860 cfs Level: 3.44 feet low Fishing Report by: Bull Shoals Lake Boat Dock "Braggin Board" GENERAL CONDITIONS SPRING - First, thanks to all of you that have had patience waiting on a new fishing report. I am finally back in Bull Shoals after spending most of January, February and March on the road doing sport shows. Spring is here on Bull Shoals Lake. It looks like it will be an early spring unless the weather changes soon. The long range forecast is for warm temperatures so fishing should start soon. It actually has up the lake. The small bluegills and perch are up near the surface here at the marina. This usually doesn't happen until April some time. They have been up a week or so, which is early. The Dogwood and Redbud trees are also starting to bloom, which is early, and that is another indication of an early spring. So fishing should start early.WATER TEMPERATURE- One of the guides got a new water temp gauge from Cabela's. He took readings off of our gas dock on Saturday. Surface- 60.2 degrees 5 foot- 59.3 " 10 foot- 56.8 " 15 foot- 55.4 " 20 foot- 52.1 " 25 foot- 51.0 " 30 foot- 50.3 " 35 foot- 50.0 " As you can see, the water temp is warming up quickly. WEATHER - The weather has been warm for March. We have had a couple of good rains but they were cold. We are supposed to get some more the later part of this week and it looks like it will be a warm rain.VISIBILITY - It is very clear here at the Marina. The backs of the creeks have some color in them, as does most of the upper lake from point 18 to the other end of the lake. With the water temp warming up the lake should clear up unless we get a lot of rain.FISHING-FISHING-FISHING-FISHING-FISHING-FISHING-FISHING-FISHING-FISHING-FISHING- We never did have the shad kill this winter. The water temperature never got below 45 degrees too much. It usually has to get in the lower 40's before the shad start to die. LARGEMOUTH BASS- As usual, most of the largemouth are shallow in 10 foot of water or less. I have seen a couple of 5-6 lb. fish listed on the tournament sheets over the last couple of months. So, Bull Shoals has started to make it back from the LMBV virus that took its toll on this lake.SPOTTED KENTUCKY BASS - These are in their usual deeper pattern then the largemouth bass, mostly on the channel swings and brush piles back in the creeks.SMALLMOUTH BASS- I have seen three 4 lb. fish caught and released here at the marina this week. These are on the gravel flats and pre- spawn banks.BASS PATTERNS- 1. Crank baits in 5 to 15 feet of water are producing all species of bass. We have a tremendous small bluegill population since the high water of 2002 and the fish have been feasting on bluegills since then. Light colored shad is another favorite color or crawfish color will work. Try to match the water color. The more colored the water the brighter or more colored the crank bait should be. In clear water your bait needs to look as natural as possible. 2. Spinner baits is shallow water way back in the creeks. This has been producing some largemouth bass. Same as the crank baits on color. The more colored the water the more colored the spinner bait. 3. jig-n-frog on the chunk rock banks or gravel flats for smallmouth. 4. all types of plastics off of the channel swings, gravel flats and brush piles. Tube jigs, hula grubs, plastic crawfish, gitzits and any other normal plastic bait. 5. deep running rouges and rebels are producing some good fish. 6. live bait is producing some fish- mostly live minnows. WALLEYE - NOT MUCH BEING REPORTED YET EXCEPT WAY UP THE LAKEWHITE BASS- NOT MUCH ACTIVITY YET, SHOULD START SOONCRAPPIE - NOT MUCH BEING CAUGHT YET OR BEING REPORTEDCATFISH - The trot liners did well over the winter. Not much going on yet.Report by Wilderness Trail BULL SHOALS LAKE SEMINAR
The top ranked walleye pro anglers will be in Bull Shoals this June for
the PWT tournament. You can fish with them to learn more about where and how to catch Bull
Shoals walleye. The PWT is a Pro-Am. March 22, 2004 This last weekend the Central Pro Am 2004 Big Tickets Spring Team Series tournament was held on Bull Shoals Lake. The team of Roy Rigdon and Rick Schmeski won with six fish weighing 13.60 pounds and Big Bass was a nice largemouth caught by Rick O’Neale weight 5.40 pounds. Largemouth bass are moving towards the back of the creeks, staging along chunk rock northern banks where the sun is warming the rocks. Wiggle Warts and Bandit crankbaits will trigger a few along the banks on windy days. Spider Jigs and finesse worms are also working on the drop offs and even though it is early spring a few largemouth bass will hit a lizard on a Carolina rig. Smallmouth bass continue to roam the steeper pea rock points and flats feeding along the transition areas for crawdads. The bite is slow and the bigger smallmouth are hard to catch. Best baits are Suspending Rogues or Lucky Crafts, Spider Jigs or tubes and finesse worms or Fish Doctors. Once the lake temperature moves into the mid-50’s the smallies will move to the cuts that have ledges and stage for their spawn. Kentucky bass are still swimming with the shad, keeping their main food source in check. Spoons, drop shots and grubs are your best baits under the shad. The few Kentuckys that break away from the schools are in search of crawdads and can be triggered to bite with Lucky Craft Pointer 78’s, tubes and Spider Jigs. Fish these baits halfway back into the cuts, coves and creeks along chunk rock banks where 30 to 40 feet of water is present. Walleye remain slow except in the upper lake above Lead Hill. Reef Runners and crawler harnesses are the baits of choice in the upper lake fished along points and creek entrances. The rest of the lake is producing some small walleye around chunk rock points and feeding flats trolling Reef Runners, Shad Raps and Mann’s 20+ stretch baits. When the main lake reaches 52 degrees the walleye will migrate into the creeks, this should take place in the next week or two. The Professional Walleye Trail anglers come to Bull Shoals in June to figure out where the walleye go in the summer and how to catch them. Anybody wanting to learn more should join them as "amateurs". Under the Pro-Am format, amateurs fish with the pro’s tackle, in the pro’s boat, and the walleyes they catch count for both in the boat-weight format. For more information contact Wilderness Trail. Trout fishing on the White River has been best on Berkley Power Eggs in yellow, pink and purple. Buoyant spoons, Countdowns, Little Cleo’s and white marabou jigs have also been working when there is some generation. The fly fishermen have been doing well on olive or black Woolly Buggers, gray sow bugs, tan scuds and San Juan worms. Browns are being caught on Suspending Rogues, Jointed Rapala floaters, and nightcrawlers. Remember to keep only what you can eat and release the rest for another day. Rick Culver of Wilderness Trail does the research for this report and the writing of this report. For more information call Rick or Sue Culver at Wilderness Trail at 870-445-2703, e-mail us at wtrail@bullshoals.net Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 259.20 Temperature: 60 - 68 and fair stain. Outflow: 1167 cfs. Level: 0.33 feet high Please use extreme caution in the river. Report by: Millwood Lake Guide Service }><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report <º)))><{ Millwood Lake Guide Service reports water temps 60-68º, and fair stain. """""""""""""""""""""""""GOFISH<º)))><{"""""""""""""""""""""" Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature: Release Rate: 130 cfs. Level: 0.02 feet high Report by: Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to TopReport by Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to Top
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