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Arkansas Fishing
Reports
Posted 08/18/04
Little
Red River
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout
The river is clear and good. Trout fishing is good
roostertails, wax worms with marshmallows
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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: 3130 cfs. Level: 4.93 feet
low
Walleye fair
using nightcrawlers off the rock points in 30 to 35 feet of water
Kentucky Bass No Report
Smallmouth Bass No Report
Whites Bass No Report
Largemouth Bass fair in 30 to
35 feet of water using small plastic worms
Crappie slow
using minnows in 30 to 35 feet of water
Channel Catfish fair using live
bait
Bluegill No Report
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Beaver
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4
Temperature:
Outflow: 1328 cfs. Level: 0.52
feet low
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: 70
Report by Ripple
Outfitters
The water temperature is about 70 degrees.
The river is low, but it is still floatable from Rock
House Landing going north.
In the mornings and evenings, bass are good on
spinner baits, crankbaits and plastics. However, it is mainly small fish being
taken.
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BULL
SHOALS
updated 08/16/04
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0
Temperature: 60's to 70's
Outflow: 4266 cfs Level: 0.51 feet
low
Lake
Map
Fishing Report by: Wilderness Trail
"Braggin Board"
August 16, 2004
Another week and another cold front and this front was major. The day time
temperatures stayed in the 60’s and 70’s and the lows at night went down
into the 50’s – what a strange summer wearing jackets in August. Lake
temperature dropped 3 degrees this week down to 79 to 80 degrees. Lake level is
at 656.44, two feet above normal pool and the thermocline is steady at 35 feet.
White bass are starting to push shad up onto the surface again with the cooler
lake surface. Casting a spoon or Pop R into the schooling feeders will create
some fast action while the whites stay up. Crappie anglers are catching a few
off brush piles located in 25 to 30 feet of water on crappie minnows and
Swimming Minnows. The crappie are tucked inside of the brush so take a lot of
hooks and crappie jigs with you when you go out.
Largemouth bass continue to move towards the back of the creeks, cuts
and pockets taking up residence under docks, around blow downs and along large
boulders. Early morning buzzbaits and Spit’N Image top water action is
present. After the sun is up switch to Spider jigs or brush hogs out in front of
the structure. Bandit Series 200 crankbaits are also triggering a few largemouth
around the secondary points and docks.
Smallmouth bass remain scattered using points and chunk rock banks for
ambush feeding areas. Smallies are in deeper water, not up on the banks. Hold
your boat is 38 to 40 feet of water and fish 28 to 35 feet of water with your
baits. Spider jigs and tube baits in watermelon purple, gourd green or brown and
purple have been the best this last week. Other baits working well are brush
hogs and centipedes on a Mojo or Carolina rig, finesse worms or meatheads on a
drop shot rig and hula grubs in green pumpkin or watermelon on a ¼ to 3/8 oz
jig head.
Kentucky bass are right where they should be for this time of year,
under balls of shad. Graph the middle of the coves in the creeks and around the
points on the main lake for shad and you will find the Kentuckys. Drop spoons
down through the shad or fish a drop shot with a 3 to 4" drop shot bait to
trigger strikes.
Walleye are using the thermocline big time for this year’s summer
homes. They are still around the points and flats in 32 to 40 feet of water,
however, they are on the bottom and not suspended making it difficult to graph
them. Two techniques are working at this time, long lining with lead core line
and crawler harnesses with bottom bouncers. Best lures for the long liners are
Reef Runners, Bill Norman DLN and DD14, Wally Divers and Hot ‘N Tots. With the
crawler harness use red, brass or chartreuse/orange blades and add a colored
float to your rig.
NIGHT TIME UPDATE: The bite has started to pick up around 9:00 on pig
and jigs and hula grubs in brown/purple or black/blue colors. Main lake and
creek secondary points are areas the bass are feeding on throughout the night. A
few hours after dark bass are moving into brush piles in the pockets. Jigs,
brush hogs and 8" worms are your best baits fishing the brush.
Trout fishing on the White River has been good on Power Bait in
yellow. pink and orange, Gulp Earthworms, 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, scuds, and San Juan
worms. Browns are being caught on Floating Original Rapala’s, Countdowns, Flat
Fish 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: 82 - 89
Outflow: 170 cfs. Level: 0.16 feet
high
Report by: Millwood
Lake Guide Service
}><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report 8/16/04 <º)))><{
Visibility and clarity continues improving and is approximately 12-18 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 5-8 feet visibility
in places. Current in Little River is non-existant this week, with the discharge
at the dam currently at only 170 CFS. Most of the floating debris in Little
River has settled out, and continues improving daily. Use extreme caution while
running the river in low light conditions!
Largemouth bass, 2 to 5 pounds, are good on 5 inch Bass Assassin Shads in
gizzard shad or rainbow trout colors; Rat-L-Traps in grasshopper, spring bream,
or bleeding diamond dust colors. Crankbaits in bream colors and brown
craw/orange belly are catching keeper bass along points of feeding creeks and
grass lines in LittleRiver. Soft plastic Rats, Scum Frogs, and Zoom horney toads
in green pumpkin or black colors, are taking decent bass in the lily pads,
coontail moss and
hydrilla. Carolina Rigs using zoom lizards in watermelon red, june bug or red
bug, are catching keepers on points in Little River.Hogg Assassins in redbug,
sour grape or black/blue are catching decent size bass on stumps and scattered
grass cover in the edges of the river. Fatbutt Gitzits in black/blue tail or
pumpkinseed/chartreuse tail, and 10-12 inch power worms in blue fleck, or black
shad are still catching good 3-4 pound bass up river. White jigs with pearl
plastic chunks, or white grubs; Larew Hog Salt Craws in black/blue, and magnum
size blackberry lizards are catching keeper size fish in the clearer oxbows.
Channel Cats remain good on cut baits, chicken livers, and cheese baits
in the river channel, on trot lines. 3-7 pound Blues continue biting well on
cheese baits, shiners, and liver on yoyos underneath cypress trees set at 7-9
feet depths.
White bass are still trying to school up, hitting chrome Little Georges
or Chuck-n-Spins, small roostertails in chrome, small Rat-L-Traps in
chrome/black or Cordell Crazy Shads topwaters, in chrome/black back, in
Horseshoe Lake or Mud Lake oxbows. The schooling activities are random and most
occurring after 4pm.
}><(((º> Lake Fishing Conditions Report<º)))><{
Currently for those people fishing below the spillway, as of Monday, August 16,
the USCE reports no change in the gate discharge last week, and is approx 170
CFS at the dam. There currently is one gate open at four tenths of one foot (0.4
feet). Be advised there are many missing river buoys in
Little River, and navigation during low light conditions are difficult, so slow
down!
The lake level has risen this past week and is only 0.75 (3/4) inches above
normal conservation pool at 259.26, and steady. Water clarity in the river, is
improving, and visibility is approximately 12-18 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 Yarborough and Mud Lake in
Little River. Water temperatures have stablized, and range approx 82ºF early to
89ºF 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. Random
grass mats and floating objects remain in 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. The USACE is working to get
these buoys replaced.
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: 725 cfs. Level: 0.96
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, June 04, 2009
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