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Arkansas Fishing
Reports
Posted 07/21/2004
Little
Red River
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout
The river is clear lake level is low.
Trout fishing is good using wax worms with marshmallows or Power Bait
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White River
Report by Ripple Outfitters
No Report
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Greers Ferry
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 462.5
Temperature:
Outflow: 1651 cfs. Level: 2.31 feet
low
Walleye excellent
using nightcrawlers off the rock points in 30 feet of water
Kentucky Bass No Report
Smallmouth Bass good in 30 feet
of water using small plastics
Whites Bass No Report
Largemouth Bass good in 30
feet of water using small plastics
Crappie fair
in 30 to 35 feet of water using small minnows
Channel Catfish good in 15 feet
of water on trotlines using large shiners and crawfish
Bluegill excellent in 10 feet of water using
crickets
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Beaver
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4
Temperature:
Outflow: 7781 cfs. Level: 5.95
feet
high
Crappie fair using hot-n-tot's
or night fishing under lights along the bluffs
Stripers are deep using umbrella rigs and
deep cranks and live shad
Largemouth Bass fair using
topwater baits
White Bass good at night under a light
Catfish good using live bait around the rock
on
a trotline
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Beaver
Tailwater
Report by Ripple Outfitters
No Report
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Kings River
Temperature:
Report by Ripple
Outfitters
The river is crystal clear and great for snorkeling. The
river is very floatable from Rock house down.
Some big Smallmouths and some Goggleye are
being caught on plastic grubs, Hula grubs, crank baits, rebel crawfish and
lizards fished early in the morning and late in the evening
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BULL
SHOALS
updated 07/12/04
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0
Temperature: low 90's
Outflow: 11140 cfs Level: 0.71 feet high
Lake
Map
Fishing Report by: Bull Shoals Lake Boat Dock
"Braggin Board"
July 19, 2004
The week started out with lots of sunshine and temperatures in the 90's, but by
the weekend a weak front came in dropping some needed rain and cooling things
down. Lake temperature pushed up to 85 degrees and the thermocline is at 32 to
34 feet this week. Generation continues around the clock and pool level is now
at 658.37, four feet above normal. The draw down has affected the feeding
patterns of the game fish and the bite is falling off because the fish can't
settle into any comfortable holding areas. Crappie moved back into the brush
piles over the week and started striking artificial baits. Crappie tubes and
swimming minnows in pumpkinseed, shad, pink and pearl colors are working the
best.
Largemouth bass are scattered and there is absolutely no pattern of where
you might catch one. If you spend all day flipping docks and submerged brush you
might find one or two. Football jigs in 40 to 50 feet of water off points can
catch a few although you need to fish a number of points before you get bit.
Best technique is a Carolina rig with a lizard, finesse worm or brush hog and
drag the bottom on the chunk rock banks. This is one way to cover a lot of
water, which is necessary when the bass are scattered.
Smallmouth bass can be taken early in the mornings on pea rock flats
and along channel swings where big rocks are present. Spider Jigs and tubes are
the best baits in green pumpkin or watermelon purple colors. After the sun is up
and shining on the surface, switch to Mojo rigs and fish them in 32 to 35 feet
of water around secondary points.
Kentucky bass are schooled under balls of shad and will stay with the
shad throughout the summer. Graph the bluff walls ends, middle of cuts in the
creeks or deep sides of underwater points until you mark the Kentuckys. Best
technique is drop shot rig with finesse baits or vertical spooning with ½ to ¾
oz slab spoons in silver or white colors.
Walleye are down in the thermocline both on the bottom and suspended. The
bite is not impressive but a few can be triggered each day. Bottom bouncers in
30 feet of water off the points will work with a crawler harness with bronze,
red or orange and chartreuse blades. Long liners are having success with Reef
Runners and Bill Norman DD22's trolling at around 2 mph over 40 to 45 feet of
water. Trollers are also finding that pulling lead core line enables them to
fish smaller lipped lures. Some of the best lures at this time are Hot'N Tots,
Wally Divers, Rogues and the new Rapalas Glass Shad Rap.
Mike Gofron, winner of the PWT on Bull Shoals Lake teamed up with Denny
Brauer, BASS leading money winner at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games for two days
of fishing on the Madison Chain of Lakes in Wisconsin. They won top honors and
Gold Medals in the fishing competition known as Freshwater Doubles.
NIGHT TIME UPDATE: The bite remains so-so as the bass are struggling with
the pool pull down. Most of the fish are being caught on points or in brush
piles. Jig and pigs, hula grubs and 8 to 10" worms are the best baits.
Trout fishing on the White River has been good on Power Bait in yellow
and white, Power Wigglers, wax worms and Belgian red worms. Buoyant Spoons,
Little Cleos, Super Dupers and Rooster Tails have been working when the
generation is on. The fly fishermen have had a hard time because of the
generation but are doing well on olive and black Woolly Buggers, scuds, sow bugs
and San Juan worms. Browns are being caught on Suspending Rogues, Countdowns and
Jointed Countdowns, Rebel Floating Minnows and nightcrawlers.
Report by Wilderness Trail
July 19, 2004
The week started out with lots of sunshine and temperatures in the 90's, but
by the weekend a weak front came in dropping some needed rain and cooling things
down. Lake temperature pushed up to 85 degrees and the thermocline is at 32 to
34 feet this week. Generation continues around the clock and pool level is now
at 658.37, four feet above normal. The draw down has affected the feeding
patterns of the game fish and the bite is falling off because the fish can't
settle into any comfortable holding areas. Crappie moved back into the brush
piles over the week and started striking artificial baits. Crappie tubes and
swimming minnows in pumpkinseed, shad, pink and pearl colors are working the
best.
Largemouth bass are scattered and there is absolutely no pattern of where
you might catch one. If you spend all day flipping docks and submerged brush you
might find one or two. Football jigs in 40 to 50 feet of water off points can
catch a few although you need to fish a number of points before you get bit.
Best technique is a Carolina rig with a lizard, finesse worm or brush hog and
drag the bottom on the chunk rock banks. This is one way to cover a lot of
water, which is necessary when the bass are scattered.
Smallmouth bass can be taken early in the mornings on pea rock flats
and along channel swings where big rocks are present. Spider Jigs and tubes are
the best baits in green pumpkin or watermelon purple colors. After the sun is up
and shining on the surface, switch to Mojo rigs and fish them in 32 to 35 feet
of water around secondary points.
Kentucky bass are schooled under balls of shad and will stay with the
shad throughout the summer. Graph the bluff walls ends, middle of cuts in the
creeks or deep sides of underwater points until you mark the Kentuckys. Best
technique is drop shot rig with finesse baits or vertical spooning with ½ to ¾
oz slab spoons in silver or white colors.
Walleye are down in the thermocline both on the bottom and suspended. The
bite is not impressive but a few can be triggered each day. Bottom bouncers in
30 feet of water off the points will work with a crawler harness with bronze,
red or orange and chartreuse blades. Long liners are having success with Reef
Runners and Bill Norman DD22's trolling at around 2 mph over 40 to 45 feet of
water. Trollers are also finding that pulling lead core line enables them to
fish smaller lipped lures. Some of the best lures at this time are Hot'N Tots,
Wally Divers, Rogues and the new Rapalas Glass Shad Rap.
Mike Gofron, winner of the PWT on Bull Shoals Lake teamed up with Denny
Brauer, BASS leading money winner at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games for two days
of fishing on the Madison Chain of Lakes in Wisconsin. They won top honors and
Gold Medals in the fishing competition known as Freshwater Doubles.
NIGHT TIME UPDATE: The bite remains so-so as the bass are struggling with
the pool pull down. Most of the fish are being caught on points or in brush
piles. Jig and pigs, hula grubs and 8 to 10" worms are the best baits.
Trout fishing on the White River has been good on Power Bait in yellow
and white, Power Wigglers, wax worms and Belgian red worms. Buoyant Spoons,
Little Cleos, Super Dupers and Rooster Tails have been working when the
generation is on. The fly fishermen have had a hard time because of the
generation but are doing well on olive and black Woolly Buggers, scuds, sow bugs
and San Juan worms. Browns are being caught on Suspending Rogues, Countdowns and
Jointed Countdowns, Rebel Floating Minnows 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
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Millwood
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 259.20
Temperature: 76 - 82
Outflow: 246 cfs. Level: 0.02 feet
high
Report by: Millwood
Lake Guide Service
}><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report 7/19/04 <º)))><{
Millwood Lake Guide Service reports water temps 76º-82º; 1/2 inch above
normal, stained, & falling.
Largemouth bass, in the 3 to 7 pound class, are good on 5 inch Bass
Assassin Shads in salt & pepper, tenneessee shad, opening night, or glass
shad colors. Rat-L-Traps in bleeding shad Z- Chrome, red chrome, or bleeding
shad diamond dust colors, are taking keeper bass on points of creek mouths
feeding into Little River. Soft plastic Rats or scum frogs in green frog or
white colors, are taking decent bass in the lily pads, coontail moss and
hydrilla.
Hogg Assassins in green pumpkin/chart tail, watermelon/red/chart tail, or redbug
are catching keeper size bass on base of cypress trees, and around stumps in
shallow water. Southern Pro Fatbutt Gitzits in smoke/red, black and blue, or
pumpkinseed/chartreuse, and 10-12 inch power worms in blue fleck, red shad or
black are still catching good fish up river. Carolina rig lizards in green
pumpkin or scuppernongs, are still catching solid 3-5 pound bass in Little
River, in 9-12 feet drop offs and on points. Additionally, white jigs with pearl
white Zoom plastic chunks or spilt milk grubs, are beginning to take keeper size
fish.
Visibility and clarity continues improving and is approximately 5-7 inches on
the main lake or the Little River. Little River's clarity continues improving
daily. The upriver oxbows such as McGuire, Horseshoe, Mud Lake, Clear Lake etc,
still have much better water clarity estimated approximately 4-7 feet visibility
in places. Current in Little River has decreased this week, with the discharge
reduction at the dam currently at 385 CFS. The floating debris in Little River
has began settling out, and continues improving daily. Use extreme caution while
running the river in low light conditions!
Channel Cats are biting chicken livers, homemade stink baits, and cut
shad in the river channel, on trot lines. 2-5 pound Blues continue biting well
on cheese baits, shiners, and liver on yoyos underneath cypress trees set at 8-9
feet depths, in the last week.
Crappie bite is improving with the reduction this week in current, and
continually improving water clarity. Crappie holes up and down Little River
between Yarborough Point and Bee Lake, in Mud Lake and Horseshoe Lake, yielded
some good catches of 2.5 to 3 pound slabs this week on shiners and jigs in 9-13
feet depths over planted brush piles.
White bass are still trying to school up, hitting small chrome/black
Rat-L-Traps, Boy Howdies, rooster tails in white, or Cordell Crazy shads in
chrome/black, in Horseshoe Lake or Mud Lake oxbows, up Little River. The
schooling activities are random and most occurring after 3pm.
}><(((º> Lake Fishing Conditions Report<º)))><{
Currently for those people fishing below the spillway, as of Monday, July 19,
the USCE reports a decrease in the gate change from discharge last week, and is
approx 385 CFS at the dam. There is currently one gate open today, #13 at one
foot.
The lake level has fallen this past week due to discharge at the dam, and is
only 1/2 inch above normal conservation pool, and falling. Current in Little
River is substantially reduced this week, at 259.24 feet and falling. Normal
conservation pool elevation of 259.20 should be reached by mid-week this week
provided there is no additional rainfall. The flow at the dam, and the current
in the river, is greatly reduced this week, almost non-existent. Water clarity
in the river, is improving, with the decrease in current, and visibility is
approximately 5-7 inches.
*Note: High, muddy water over the last several weeks, has moved some of the
river buoys out of the channel and onto the banks, or have disappeared
altogether. Many river buoys are missing between mile marker 3 and Jack's Isle
in Little River. Water temperatures have stabilized, and with all the cool rain
and cloud cover, and range approx 76ºF early to 82ºF later in the day,
depending on area of the lake, wind and sunlight penetrations.
Use EXTREME caution while navigating Little River in low light conditions, and
SLOW DOWN! Careful watch for floaters and debris in Little River's current is a
requirement. The river is improving daily, in clarity and slower current. The
vegetation and floating debris floating in the river this week is again reduced,
however, random grass mats, tree debris and floating objects remain coming down
Little River. Keep in mind there are long sections of Little River where the
river buoys have moved out of position or have disappeared from the high water
and current.
Don't forget, be safe, and respect the other guy's right to use the lake
too. Release those big bass to spawn and fight again, and take home those
little 16"ers to fry up! Use caution in low light conditions, and wear your
Life Preserver! If you are suddenly thrown from your boat, or knocked
unconscious, your life preserver can potentially be your only hope to survive,
so PUT IT ON!
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Norfork
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0
Temperature:
Release Rate: 4454 cfs. Level: 3.32
feet
high
Lake
Map
Report by: Ripple Outfitters
No Report
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Norfork Tailwater
Report by Ripple Outfitters
No Report
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This page was updated Thursday, April 17, 2008
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