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Posted 08/28/04
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout The river is clear and good. Trout fishing is good wax worms with marshmallows, pink or chartreuse colored power eggs Report by Ripple Outfitters No Report Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 462.5 Temperature: Outflow: 2499 cfs. Level: 7.10 feet low Walleye fair using worms off the rock points in 33 feet of water Largemouth Bass good early and late in 10 to 12 feet of water using crankbaits Bream good in 3 to 4 feet of water using crickets Crappie slow using minnows in 30 to 35 feet of water Channel Catfish fair using cut shad and perch on jug lines Bluegill No Report Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4 Temperature: Outflow: 2102 cfs. Level: 3.52 feet low Crappie good using minnows Stripers are deep using umbrella rigs and deep cranks and live shad Largemouth Bass good using crankbaits at night 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: 69 Report by Ripple Outfitters The river is clear and low. The river is still floatable with some dragging. The water temperature is 69 degrees. Bass are excellent on crankbaits, hula grubs, Gitzits and buzzbaits. Most the bass are being taken in morning and in the evening. A lot of smallmouth are being taken. Warmouth are excellent on worms. updated 08/28/04 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0 Temperature: 80 to 82 Outflow: 10571 cfs Level: 2.51 feet low Fishing Report by: Wilderness Trail "Braggin Board" This week’s weather was a mixture of warm days, cool evenings and a little rain. The day time temperatures were in the 70’s and 80’s and the lows at night were in the high 60’s. Lake temperature came up to 80 to 82 degrees. All in all a great August so far. Lake level is at 656.39, two feet above normal pool and the thermocline is steady at 35 to 37 feet. Crappie are hunkered down in brush piles located in 35 feet of water. Best baits are crappie minnows using a colored jig head, and Swimming Minnows in Blue Thunder and Purple Mist. Largemouth bass are located in 20 to 30 feet of water, under docks, around blow downs and along steep chunk rock banks. Top water in the mornings is good on a Zara Spook or Spit’N Image. Once the sun is up, the largemouth will slide off into a little deeper water, then change over to Carolina rigged flukes in watermelon or a centipede again in the watermelon color, fish the Carolina rig very slow. Crankbaits will also trigger a few largemouth around the docks. Smallmouth bass are in 25 to 35 feet of water along steep chunk rock banks. Hold your boat is 35 to 40 feet of water and fish 28 to 35 feet of water with your baits. Spider jigs in peanut butter and jelly or cinnamon purple colors with a cinnamon purple trailer and tube baits in cinnamon purple and watermelon purple, have been the best this week. Other baits working well are brush hogs and centipedes on a Mojo or Carolina rig, and hula grubs in green pumpkin or watermelon on a ¼ oz jig head. Kentucky bass are in 50 to 55 feet of water under balls of shad. Drop spoons down through the shad, a drop shot with small drop shot bait for the feeding Kentuckys, or a Carolina rigged fluke in watermelon. Walleye are have gone a little deeper. They are now at 40 to 45 feet. They are still around the points and flats. For the most part they are still hugging the bottom, the walleye that are suspended are not biting. To catch the ones that are on the bottom, use a bottom bouncer and nightcrawlers harness or split shot a nightcrawlers. Just this week the spoon bite for walleye has turned on. The best spoon bite is with a Bink’s ¾ or 1 oz spoon in Chartreuse/silver or Blue/silver. Trout fishing on the White River has been good on Power Bait in yellow and orange, Gulp Earthworms, and Belgian red worms. Buoyant Spoons, Super Dupers 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 soft hackles. Browns are being caught on Smithwick Rogues, Shad Raps, 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 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 259.20 Temperature: 81 - 85 Outflow: 170 cfs. Level: 0.22 feet high Report by: Millwood Lake Guide Service }><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report 8/24/04 <º)))><{ Visibility and clarity continues improving and is approximately 15-20 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 slightly increased this week, with the discharge at the dam currently at 778 CFS. Use extreme caution while running the river in low light conditions! Largemouth bass, 2 to 4 pounds, are good on 5 inch Bass Assassin Shads
in pumpkinseed, pinfish, or salt & pepper colors; Rat-L-Traps in bleeding
diamond, Smokey Joe, or red colors. Bandit crankbaits in brown craw/orange belly
or Norman cranks in chart/blue are catching keeper bass along points of feeding
creeks in Little River. Soft plastic Scum Frogs, Heddon Zara mouses, or 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, red bug, or cotton candy are catching keepers on points in
Little River and on 8-14 foot drop offs, in the oxbows up river. Schooling
blacks have been found and caught in the 1-2.5 pound range up Little River this
week, caught on the Rat-L-Traps and Cordell Red fins or Smithwick rouges. Action
is quick, fast and furious, mostly occurring on cloudy days, mid-mornings. Hogg
Assassins in black/blue or smoke/red 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 red shad,
plum or purple are still catching solid 5 pound bass up river. White jigs with
pearl plastic chunks, or white grubs; Larew Hog Salt Craws in black/blue, and Texas-rig
magnum size blackberry or June bug lizards are catching keeper size fish in the
clearer oxbows. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature: Release Rate: 1116 cfs. Level: 0.03 feet high Report by: Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to TopReport by Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to Top
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