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Posted 10/01/04
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout The river is low and the generators are running some in the afternoon. Trout fishing is good wax worms with marshmallows and Power bait. The brown trout spawn is soon Report by Ripple Outfitters The river is clear and at normal level. Trout is excellent using wax worms and Power Bait Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 462.5 Temperature: Outflow: 183 cfs. Level: 9.83 feet low Walleye fair using nigh crawlers in 30 to 35 feet of water Largemouth Bass good using plastic worms and crankbaits in 12 to 15 feet of water Bream excellent using crickets Crappie good using minnows in 15 to 25 feet of water in the river Channel Catfish good on trotlines using night crawlers or bluegill Bluegill No Report Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4 Temperature: Outflow: 593 cfs. Level: 4.20 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: 67 Report by Ripple Outfitters The river temperature is around 67 degrees. The river is low but floatable on the north end. However to get to the north end, fishermen might have to drag over some shoals. Bass fishing is phenomenal. Some nice size Largemouth, Smallmouth and Kentuckys have been picked up using hula grubs and buzzbaits. Also, bald eagles and ospreys are very visible for any bird enthusiasts. updated 10/01/04 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0 Temperature: 74 Outflow: 1947 cfs Level: 5.21 feet low Fishing Report by: Wilderness Trail "Braggin Board"
September 27, 2004 Fall is here and summer is gone, at least that’s what the calendar says. Our weather pattern is stable with highs in the mid-80’s and lows in the mid-50’s at night. We finally had some rain on Saturday, it didn’t amount to much but it was enough to replenish the oxygen level in the lake. Lake temperature is cooling to 74 degrees overnight and warming up to 76+ degrees during the day. The thermocline remains steady at around 35 feet and the lake clarity is 12 feet, which is a little stained for this time of year. Crappie are still positioned inside the brush piles making it difficult to offer a jig or minnow down to them. Rig your crappie minnows with the hook hidden inside the minnow making it weedless and it will go down through the brush without hanging up. Largemouth bass slowly but surely are moving into the back of the cuts, coves and creeks in anticipation of their fall fattening up period. Most of the largemouth are in search of crawdads, sunfish or perch. Best baits are buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, Zara Spooks, Pop R’s and Spider Jigs. The morning bite is the best up until the sunlight is shining on the water. Smallmouth bass started returning to points last week and they have continued their migration out of deep water this week. 14 to 16 inch smallies are now in 28 to 33 feet of water foraging on crawdads and shad. Carolina or Mojo rigs are starting to trigger feeding smallies tipped with a Zoom trick worm, Fish Doctor, or brush hog. Other baits to try are Zara Spook Jrs. on top water and Spider Jigs or tubes across the bottom. Kentucky bass continue to follow the shad into the creeks and pockets. Surface feeding has been "iffy" this last week, mainly because the shad are suspending 20 to 50 feet down. Vertically fishing spoons or a drop shot rig with a grub is triggering some nice Kentuckys. As the lake temperature drops a number of Kentuckys will start to forage along channel swings in the creeks. Grubs, Spider Jigs and tubes are your best baits to work down the ledges. Walleye were playing hard to get this last week. We could mark them around the chunk rock points and over the flats but they just were hard to catch. Crawler harnesses with bottom bouncers triggered a few, split shot shiners or nightcrawlers also triggered a few, but you have to cover a lot of water and really work for a bite. The long liners had the same problems getting their crank baits on lead core line to within inches of the suspending walleyes but most of the fish were turning their noses up at the baits. The few that were caught bit on Rapala Glass Shad, Reef Runners and Hot’N Tots. Trout fishing on the White River has been good on Power Bait in yellow and Belgian red worms. Buoyant Spoons, Little Cleos, Super Dupers and Rooster Tails have been working when the generation is on. The fly fishermen have done well on olive Woolly Buggers, sow bugs, egg pattern in peach or chartreuse and San Juan worms. 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: Outflow: 388 cfs. Level: 0.21 feet high Report by: Millwood Lake Guide Service }><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report<º)))><{ Largemouth bass, Spotted Bass and Whites, 1 to 3 pounds, are randomly schooling and excellent on 5 inch Bass Assassin Shads in salt & pepper colors; Rat-L-Traps in chrome, white, or Smokey Joe; crazy shads or silver and gold spoons with white buck tails, in lily pads along Little River. Norman cranks in white or blue/chartreuse still remain catching keeper bass along points of feeding creeks in Little River. Soft plastic Scum Frogs in black, are catching decent bass in the lily pads, coontail moss and hydrilla. Carolina Rigs using zoom lizards in watermelon or pumpkin/chart tail are
catching keepers on points in Little River, at the 7-8 foot drop offs. Schooling
blacks have also been found up river and caught in the 2-3 pound range up Little
River, caught on the Rat-L-Traps and Cordell Red fins, Crazy Shads or Smithwick
rouges. Action is quick, fast and furious, best occurring on cloudy days,
starting and stopping at random early. The White Bass are sometimes found
schooling along and with the Black Bass and have been caught in the same schools
as the blacks, but apparently are preferring chrome or white/chart Chuck-N-Spins
or red and white beetle spins over the top water baits. Two fishermen caught and
released over 30 blacks and whites between 1-3 pounds in just under 45 minutes
last week. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature: Release Rate: 569 cfs. Level: 2.18 feet low Report by: Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to TopReport by Ripple Outfitters No Report Back to Top
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