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Posted 07/29/2004
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 Report by Ripple Outfitters No Report 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 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 Report by Ripple Outfitters No Report 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. updated 07/29/04 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0 Temperature: low 90's Outflow: 8578 cfs Level: 0.71 feet high 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 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 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 259.20 Temperature: 80 - 90 Outflow: 523 cfs. Level: 0.09 feet high Report by: Millwood
Lake Guide Service
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normal, stained, & falling. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature: Release Rate: 179 cfs. Level: 1.63 feet high Report by: Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to TopReport by Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to Top
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