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Posted 1/18/2001 [ Beaver | Beaver Tailwaters | Bull Shoals (East) | Greers Ferry | Little Red River | Millwood | Norfork | Due to the Weather Conditions the fishing reports will be coming in slow. Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout fair on wax worms, power eggs and night crawlers. Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 461.0 Temperature: Outflow: 40 cfs. Level: 5.20 feet low Walleye No Report Smallmouth Bass No Report Hybrid Bass No Report Largemouth Bass No Report Crappie No Report Channel Catfish No Report Spotted Bass No Report Bream No Report Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4 Temperature: Outflow: 20 cfs. Level: 7.60 feet low Striped Bass No Report Largemouth Bass No Report Crappie No Report Catfish No Report White Bass No Report Bream No Report
Trout the water is low enough for you to wade the best flies have been gray and creak A.K.'s Adult Middle, sizes 20-26, gray, olive orange scuds. Walleye good on minnows and jigs Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 654.00 Temperature: Outflow: 129 cfs Level: 7.50 feet low Report by Wilderness Trail December 18, 2000 For the first time in seven years, we are in a deep freeze. Temperatures have been in the 20's and 30's with wind chills in the minus zones. We have 4 to 5 inches of snow mixed with ice which has shut down all the ramps to the lake and even the roads to the marinas. It looks like it is going to be a hard winter. Lake level is at 646.80, seven and a half feet below normal pool and the lake temperature dropped drastically from 52 to 42 degrees. The game fish are now in their winter homes, standing trees in 50 to 60 feet of water, deep cliff walls, channel swings and creek channel drop offs. Largemouth bass will be in deep water around standing trees or over the drop offs in the deeper creeks. If you can get out on the lake to get to them, your best baits will be spoons and 3/4 to 1 oz. jigs. Smallmouth bass don't hide as deep and can be found in 35 to 50 feet of water along the cliff walls and chunk rock channel swings. Tube baits and grubs work the best during the winter months. Kentuckys school up on the main lake points in 40 to 60 feet of water. Spooning will trigger the majority of the fish until spring. Walleye also move out of the creeks to the main lake during the winter. Their wintering grounds are in deeper water than the bass, 60 to 80 feet. They suspend in the top of the sunken forest in the main lake. Best baits are shiners on ball jigs or nightcrawlers. Trout on the White River were on a good bite this week for those anglers that made it out. Inline spinners and Little Cleo's worked the best. Rainbows were more active than the Browns. Fly fishermen had some success with egg patterns in fluorescent yellow and pink colors. Here is a maintenance tip while you are waiting for the thaw to come; clean up your rods and reels. Take an oil rag and clean the blank and eyes on your rod. A Q-tip will work great on the eyes. Most reels have heavy grease in them which needs to be replaced in the winter with a light grease. With the cold temperatures your casting will become smoother if you change. 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 [email protected] or check out our web site at www.wildernesstrail.com Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 259.2 Temperature: Mid 40's Outflow: 9513 cfs. Level: 0.50 feet high The water level is several feet higher than normal due to the run-off from the ice and snow, and the water is muddy. Largemouth Bass fair using war eagle and excalibur 5/8 to 3/4 oz white and chartreuse spinnerbaits with lime colored trailers, in 9 to 13 feet deep near the drop-offs of the creek channels and in the river next to stumps. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs fish deep by the cover Catfish fair to good on minnows and worms in the current areas Bream No Report
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature: 41 Release Rate: 60 cfs. Level: 7.00 feet low Report By Professional Guide Garry Sperry This Report Is For: January, 2001
Changes Since Previous Report: We've finally had weather good enough for sane people to venture out on the lake! The shad kill is creating some hot action right now. White bass --Fish 1/4 oz. Road Runner or 1/4 oz. jigging spoon under schools of shad. Find fish and jig vertically in school. Largemouth are every place feeding on dying shad, surface to 25 feet. Small shad color crank baits, small bass assassins (sparkle shad color) work very well. 3/8 oz. jig and pork fished at 15 to 20 ft. also work very well. Best colors black jig, purple frog or purple and purple. Fish jig and pork very slow Stripers are all over the lake. We are having a shad kill and the fish are feeding like crazy from the surface down to 20 feet. 1/4 oz. road runners & sassy shad work well. If you want to troll, umbrella lures work very well. Use 1/2 oz. jigs on umbrella, blue & white or white. Live bait okay, 3 inch shiners very good. Fish with free line no weight. Hot Spots---Robinson Point Island, Float Creek, Bennett's Bayou. Crappie are in brush piles 2-8 ft. deep. Tube jigs are best right now. Pink & white, silver, white & blue are the best colors. The Lake is very clear. Stay off brush and cast to brush. Slowly retrieve your jig. Walleye are on creek and river points 10-20 ft. deep. Best bet is jigging spoons or rapala jigging minnow, silver or chartreuse best color. Trolling is okay. Use bottom bouncer with a small sparkle tail, or hot-n-tot 10-20 ft. Hot pink & chartreuse or silver best color. Catfish No report for cats at this time.
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