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Posted 07/07/05
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout The river is running low and clear. Trout have been biting fair on a wax worm/Power Bait combination. Local fisherman Jeff Moore said the White River at Guion continues to run low making boating difficult. Trout and bass fishing is fair in the Guion area. Rainbows can be caught either by anchor fishing or drift fishing. Anchor fishing with corn worms or Power Eggs are all effective baits. Largemouth bass from Guion to Batesville seem to be relating to the grass. The best fishing is early and late. Scum frogs, top waters, Senkos and floating worms will produce a few fish. A variety of fish is being caught below Lock 1. Minnow fishing is producing a mixed bag. You are apt to catch a stringer consisting of Drum, Sauger, Walleye, White Bass, Bass and Catfish. Catfishing is fair using prepared bait and chicken livers. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 462.5 Temperature: 80 Outflow: 370 Level: 3.46 feet low Kentucky bass are schooling pretty well up the river and can be caught on Rinky Dinks. Also try using a jigging spoon to get down under the smaller fish to catch the bigger ones. Walleye No Report Largemouth Bass are going into their summer patterns and are on the ledges. They are using grasshopper-colored worms when the sun is shinning and red with gold flake if it cloudy 15 to 40 feet deep and also top water action is good early and late in the day. Bream good using crickets and worms by the shoreline early morning Crappie good in 15 to 25 feet of water over the tops of brush Channel Catfish could not get any better than it is right now. They are biting all over the lake from shallow to deep. Bluegill No Report Beaver Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4 Temperature: Outflow: 3265 cfs. Level: 4.31 feet low Report by: Catfish No Report Crappie No Report Stripers No Report Largemouth Bass No Report White Bass No Report
No Report Temperature: No Report updated 7/07/05 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0 Temperature: Upper 90's Outflow: 2271 cfs Level: 4.19 feet low Fishing Report by: Wilderness Trail "Braggin Board" TUESDAY NIGHT OPEN TOURNAMENTS SPONSORED BY R & H MARINE $25.00 PER TEAM WITH $5.00 GOING TO BIG BASS POT Rules and information available at R & H Marine and Wilderness Trail There was not a lot of change in the weather, the lake or the bite this week. Daytime temperatures stayed in the 90’s with mid 70’s at night. We did have a couple of inches of rain mid-week, which we really needed. The lake level came back up about half a foot and is now at 653.26. Lake clarity depends on what part of the lake you are at. The dam area up to about Oakland is 16 feet and the Theodosia arm and Big Creek area is around 10 feet. The thermocline remains steady at 36 feet and the lake surface temperature is at 85.2 degrees. Crappie are on the brush piles at night and moving into 30 feet of water out on the points during the heat of the day and in the pole trees along the bluffs. Crappie minnows and Bobby Garland Swimming Minnow are the best baits to use at this time. Hook your live minnows through the tail so they can swim. Largemouth bass have been feeding in the mornings and at night on shad and crawdads. The day bite is very slow due to the bright sun and heat. Buzz baits, Zara Spook Jrs., Pop R’s and Chug Bugs trigger feeders in the creeks in the morning (5:30 to 7:30 a.m.). Back off the banks after the sun is up and throw Spider Jigs or Carolina Rigs and brush hogs, centipedes or finesse worms. Smallmouth bass have moved to the middle of the channel swings in the creeks and on the main lake. Top water in the morning is a hit and miss thing and slow moving baits such as Spit’N Image or Chug Bugs work the best. Tube baits, Spider Jigs, Booyah Baby Boo Jigs and Mojo Rigs with Fish Doctors, centipedes or finesse worms were the key baits this week. Kentucky Bass continue to do their summer thing, traveling with the shad and moving to the banks for crawdads every once in a while. Here again there is some top water frenzy feeding in the morning, but it is one of those "you need to be in the right place at the right time" things. Spoons are starting to work well under the shad along with drop shot rigs with finesse baits. Tube baits and Spider Jigs work the best on the Kentuckys that are searching for crawdads. Chunk rock points and banks are the areas to fish. Walleye are inside the thermocline moving to the banks throughout the night and feeding in the mornings. Crawler harnesses and leech harnesses trolled in 20 to 25 feet of water with bottom bouncers is catching a few. Long liners are pulling Reef Runners and Glass Shad around main lake points and catching a few. Other baits working well are the new Wally Minnow, Jr., Bill Norman’s Deep Little N and Shad Raps. NIGHT TIME UPDATE: The good bite is starting around 11 o’clock on channel swings and in brush piles. Pig and jigs and 8" Black/Blue or Strawberry Gold worms have been the best baits. Jerk baits will catch a few walleye and even a bass or two around points. Suspending Rogues, X-Raps and Lucky Crafts are the best baits. LAKE RATING: Fish hard, the bite is slow, the rating is Fair. Fishing for trout on the White River has been good this past week. The Berkley Power Egg bite has been good in yellow and pink or Belgium red worms. With generation the Buoyant Spoons, Little Cleo's, Blue Fox and Super Dupers are the bait of choice. The fly fishermen did well on olive and black Woolly Bugger, tungsten bead head midges, soft hackles and scuds. The Brown trout are being caught on Suspending Rogues, 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. Updated: 07/07/05 Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 259.20 Temperature: 87 - 93 Outflow: 215 cfs. Level: 0.16 feet high Report by: Millwood Lake Guide Service }><(((º> Millwood Lake Fishing Report 7/5/05 <º)))><{ Water temps 87º-93º ; approx 2 inches above normal, & steady. Discharge:214CFS. Let's all face it, It's HOT, Incredibly HOT. Early and late, Largemouth Bass from 2 to 3 pounds each, are fair to good, and occasionally schooling, on Bass Assassin Shads, Zoom Horney Toads (when up into the pad edges), over hydrilla and other grasses, over and in 4-9 feet depth water, and on best on clear Baby Torpedoes, chrome/black back Cordell Red Fins, 1/4 to 1/2 oz white Rat-L-Traps, and white Rocket Shads, around lily pads and vegetation edges also. Use a small baby minus one crankbaits in white shad/orange belly or spring bream color, 4-7' deep, close to, and along outside of the grass and lily pad lines to coaks a few out in between schoolings. Hang on with at least 14 pound test line around those pads and grass, because we have caught a few Millwood Hogs doing this lately. We won't say exactly how "piggy" they were, but let's just say their potbellys were full of shad, very pronounced, had 3-4 shad tails sticking out of their throats when they hit our crankbaits, and they wanted more.Gizits are still working on cypress trees and knees, but in slightly deeper water than a few weeks ago, approx 9 feet. Green pumpkin/red flake or smoke/red flake are better water colors since the lake has cleared over the last few weeks. Early and late in the day, bass are still feeding and chasing shad near top water. Clear Baby Torpedoes, small Spitin' Images Jr.s, in various shad patterns, and Assassin Shads, all work well in the frenzy. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature: Release Rate: 1100 cfs. Level: 3.29 feet low No Report Back to TopNo Report
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