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Posted 09/02/04
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: 1750 cfs. Level: 7.10 feet low Walleye No Report Largemouth Bass good using grubs and plastic worms fish deep Bream good in 3 feet of water using crickets Crappie slow using small jigs around the timber in South Fork, Middle Fork and Devils Fork Channel Catfish No Report Bluegill No Report Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4 Temperature: Outflow: 1279 cfs. Level: 3.52 feet low Crappie good using minnows in the brush piles 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 No Report Report by Ripple Outfitters No Report Temperature: 70'2 Report by Ripple Outfitters The river is clear and low. The river is still floatable. The water temperature is 70's degrees. Bream good using worms, crickets and crankbaits Smallmouth Bass slow using soft plastics updated 08/28/04 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0 Temperature: 78 to 80 Outflow: 6312 cfs Level: 2.51 feet low Fishing Report by: Wilderness Trail "Braggin Board" This week started out very warm and summer-like and the game fish were just starting to get reoriented back to their summer patterns and then a major cool front hit and dropped 2" of rain. The temperatures dropped into the 60’s at night and 70’s during the day with winds out of the north. This weather change slowed the bite down. Lake temperature is 78 ½ to 80 degrees and the thermocline is now at 37 feet. The water clarity remains stained with 10 to 12 feet of visibility. Lake level is holding nicely this year. We are at 655.16, one foot above normal pool, so that is good news. Crappie are stacking up on the brush piles but they won’t bite until after dark. Use a floating light and fish with crappie minnows on a plain hook and split shot. Largemouth bass have left the back of the creeks and pockets and moved out to secondary points and into brush piles. The bite is slow and few and far between. Best lures are pig and jigs, hula grubs and Texas rigged worms. Smallmouth bass remain suspended off the points and channel swings. They move up at night and early in the morning searching for crawdads. Best baits are Spider jigs, tubes and finesse worms on a drop shot rig. You can trigger a few during the day on smoke or watermelon grubs, fished on 4 lb line. Kentucky bass are easy to find graphing the channel swings and around main lake points. The problem is getting them to bite because they are under schools of shad and only feed when they have to. Your best bet is to drop spoons down through the shad and try to trigger a strike. White, silver, gold and Bink’s Pro Spoons are working the best. Walleye remain deep under the thermocline holding off points and over flooded forest. The few that are being caught are coming on lead core line with Glass Shad or Reef Runners pulled down to 35 feet. A few are caught on spoons in the mornings up on flats and points. Best colors have been white, silver and Bink’s blue and gray back. NIGHT TIME UPDATE: The bite picks up around 10 p.m. on points and brush piles. Best baits this week were pig and jigs, brush hogs and june bug Gene Larew worms. Trout fishing on the White River has been good on Power Bait in yellow and orange, Gulp Earthworms, and Belgian red worms. Buoyant Spoons, Little Cleo’s and Rooster Tails have been working when the generation is on. The fly fishermen have done well on olive Woolly Buggers, scuds, and sow bugs. Browns are being caught on Smithwick Rogues, 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 - 87 Outflow: 777 cfs. Level: 0.21 feet high Report by: Millwood Lake Guide Service }><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report 8/30/04 <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 decreased this week, with the discharge at the dam currently at 388 CFS. Use extreme caution while running the river in low light conditions due to missing river buoys. Largemouth bass, 2 to 6 pounds, are good on black and blue buzz baits,
5 inch Bass Assassin Shads in salt & pepper colors; Rat-L-Traps in white, Smokey
Joe, or red craw colors. Bandit crankbaits in brown craw/orange belly or Norman
cranks in shad colors are catching keeper bass along points of feeding creeks in
Little River. Soft plastic Scum Frogs or Zoom horney toads in green pumpkin or
black colors, are still 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 6-9 foot drop offs,
in the oxbows up river. Schooling blacks have been found up river 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. The White Bass are sometimes found
schooling along and with the Black Bass. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature: Release Rate: 947 cfs. Level: 0.10 feet high Report by: Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to TopReport by Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to Top
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