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Arkansas Fishing
Reports
Posted 07/29/2004
Little
Red River
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout
The lake level is low in the morning.
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: 2869 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 No Report
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 using live
bait on the flats
Bluegill excellent in 10 feet of water using
crickets
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Beaver
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4
Temperature:
Outflow: 3982 cfs. Level: 1.15
feet
high
Crappie good using minnows
Stripers are deep using umbrella rigs and
deep cranks and live shad
Largemouth Bass good 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 clear and high. However, the conditions are
great for floating.
Smallmouth bass fishing is excellent on green or
watermelon soft plastics fished along boulders and lay downs. Top-water lures
are also effective for smallmouth bass.
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BULL
SHOALS
updated 07/29/04
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0
Temperature: low 90's
Outflow: 8578 cfs Level: 0.71 feet high
Lake
Map
Fishing Report by: Bull Shoals Lake Boat Dock
"Braggin Board"
Bream are biting well on worms.
Crappie fishing is very good on crappie minnows and small crappie jigs
fished 25 to 30 feet deep over brush piles.
Bass fishing is slow.
Catfish are biting well on trotlines and jugs.
Walleye are fair to good on night crawler harnesses fished 30 to 35
feet deep.
Report by Wilderness Trail
July 26, 2004
When is the last time you remember wearing a jacket at the end of July? A major
cold front pushed in at the end of the week dropping daytime temperatures into
the 60’s with a cold rain. It was a nice break from the summer heat but it is
a shocker for the fish. Water temperature was not affected by the cold front and
surface temperature remains in the mid 80’s. The thermocline has set up at 35
feet and most of the game fish are just above the temperature break. Lake level
this week is at 657.16, which is 3 feet above normal pool, hopefully with the
rains we will stay there for a while.
Crappie are biting early in the mornings and on floating lights at
night around brush piles in 25+ feet of water or the standing trees along the
bluff walls. Best baits are crappie minnows, Swimming Minnows and crappie tubes.
White bass are now active on spoons in 40 to 55 feet of water at the entrances
of the pockets in the creek arms and around the main lake. The shad have dropped
into thermocline, which enables the Whites to feed on them in the their
temperature range.
Largemouth bass are still spotty during the day light hours. A few are
being caught on jigs or Berkley worms around docks and brush piles, but the big
surprise this week was some of the suspended largemouth reacting to slow rolling
spinnerbaits on points and in the back of the creeks. This reaction bite is
taking place early in the mornings while they are feeding on shad.
Smallmouth bass have gone deep and are under ledges at the entrance of
the cuts and pockets throughout the lake. Fish tube baits, Spider Jigs or drop
shot baits down the bank for best results. The bite is slow so work the area
over thoroughly before moving on.
Kentucky bass have also been spotty but the reason is that they are
traveling in schools in search of shad, so you need to do some graphing to find
them. Once a school is marked, drop a spoon (white or silver) or a drop shot rig
down to them. For live bait anglers a nightcrawler or shiner on a split shot rig
will also trigger some bites.
Walleye are now on the bottom at 35 feet off points and the deep side
of feeding flats. Bottom bouncers are working with crawler harnesses or leech
harnesses in the mornings and early evening. There are walleye suspended at 35
feet over deeper water out in front of points and flats and these fish can be
caught with lead core line pulling Rapala Glass Shad, Reef Runners and Bill
Norman lures at 1.5 to 1.7 mph. Keep your bait over the top of the walleye
because they feed upward and will not go down after a bait.
NIGHT FISHING UPDATE: The bite is the best from sundown until midnight
on points and chunk rock baits. Best baits are jig and pigs, tubes, 8 to
10" worms and brush hogs all in brown or blue/black colors.
Trout fishing on the White River has been good on Power Bait in yellow
and white, Power Wigglers, Gulp Earthworms, salmon eggs and Belgian red worms.
Buoyant Spoons, Mepps and Rooster Tails have been working when the generation is
on. The fly fishermen have done well on olive and black Woolly Buggers, peach
egg pattern, scuds, sow bugs and San Juan worms. Browns are being caught on
Floating Original Rapala’s, 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: 80 - 90
Outflow: 523 cfs. Level: 0.09 feet
high
Report by: Millwood
Lake Guide Service
}><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report 7/29/04 <º)))><{
Millwood Lake Guide Service reports water temps 80º-90º; 2.5 inches above
normal, stained, & falling.
Largemouth bass, 3 to 6 pounds, are very good on 5 inch Bass Assassin
Shads in bone diamond, salt & pepper, or gizzard shad colors. A client
caught 10 pound bass Friday last week on a 5 inch Bass Assassin, up river (see
photo attached).
Rat-L-Traps in red chrome, or bleeding shad diamond dust colors, and white/chart
buzz baits are still catching keeper bass on points of creek mouths feeding into
Little River. Soft plastic Rats and scum frogs in pumpkin/chart or white colors,
are taking decent bass in the lily pads, coontail moss and hydrilla.
Hogg Assassins in redbug or green pumpkin are catching keeper size bass on base
of cypress trees, and around stumps in shallow water. Southern Pro Fatbutt
Gitzits in 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 cotton candy, watermelon red, and scumpernong, are still
catching solid bass in Little River 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 8-9 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 is non-existent this week, with the discharge
at the dam currently at 777 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 cut baits 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 7-8 feet depths, in the last week.
Crappie bite is improving with the reduction this week in current, and
continually improving water clarity. Good catches are reported on shiners in
12-14
feet.
White bass are still trying to school up, hitting small roostertails in
red/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 2-3pm.
}><(((º> Lake Fishing Conditions Report<º)))><{
Currently for those people fishing below the spillway, as of Monday, July 26,
the USCE reports an increase in the gate change from discharge last week, and is
approx 777 CFS at the dam. There are currently two gates open today, #2, and #12
at one foot each.
The lake level has slightly risen this past week due to fresh water, and is only
2.5 inches above normal conservation pool, and falling. Current in Little River
is substantially reduced this week, at 259.40 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 8-9 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 dissappeared
altogether. Many river buoys are missing between mile marker 3 and Jack's Isle
in Little River. Water temperatures have stablized, and range approx 81ºF early
to 90ºF 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: 179 cfs. Level: 1.63
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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