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Posted 06/30/06
| Beaver | Little Red River | Kings River | Bull Shoals | Greers Ferry |
| Beaver Tailwater | Millwood | Norfork | Norfork Tailwater | White River |
Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout
The generators have been running in the afternoons. Trout are biting on wax
worms with marshmallows, Power Bait, corn and night crawlers. During generation,
try artificial baits such as spinners and spoons.
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 462.5 Temperature:
Outflow: 650 Level: 10.50 feet low
Cat fishing has been good on jugs and trotlines baited with blood bait, stink bait, worms or chicken livers.
Kentucky and Small mouth bass are gathering around primary lake points in 10 to 20 feet of water.
White bass and Hybrids are schooling on both sides of Edgemont Bridge.
Beaver Lake
Elevation at Normal Pool: 1121.4 Temperature:
Outflow: 20 cfs. Level: 14.10 feet low
Catfish No Report
Crappie good in 5 to 10 feet of water on minnows and jigs fished in contact with brush piles.
Stripers have been taken slowly trolling balloon rigs baited with live shad in the creek channels.
Largemouth Bass are suspended around points and are biting fairly well on jerk baits and spoons fished at their level.
White Bass No Report
Beaver
Tailwater
Updated: 06/30/06
Report by: BEAVER DAM STORE:
Well for all the battles people had last weekend, Monday showed that Beaver isn't "fished out", "too hard" or a bad place to fish. Long leaders, 9' plus 3' of fluorocarbon 6x tippet, and the right drifting techniques will score fish and lots of them. Steve had two clients on Monday _ Bud could fish well and finished with 40-odd fish, his wife Patty was a first timer and after going through Steve's intro fly casting lesson finished up with around 10 _ and could have had as many more.
Steve's Cooee soft hackles (now back in stock after we chained him to the tying desk mid-week) tore up those usually tricky early morning risers. When the sun hit the water the fish went deep as usual and were keen to grab tungsten Hot Wire Prince nymphs in red/blue or red/yellow. Those three patterns were enough to account for 60-odd fish in about six person-hours of fishing effort.
Its also worth adding some tan Hunchback scuds, in 16 and 14 to drift through the mid-to lower part of the trophy area, Brassies (with or without bead) and Copper Johns in 14s, 16s and 18s are also doing well.
Hot windy days are also bringing out ants and beetles into the trees (and we should be seeing some early hoppers too). Schroeders Parachute Ant is one of our favorites as is Lawson�s Foam Beetle. Fish these downstream on long fine 6x or 7x leaders and on windy afternoons, tight to the windward shore, where trout will be mopping up all the food caught against the shore.
Tight Lines from the
Beaver Dam Store staff, Lisa, Steve, Shirley, Tom, Dennis and Bryce.
Updated: 06/30/06
No Report
updated 06/30/06
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 657.0 Temperature: 82
Outflow: 2550 cfs Level: 13.94 feet low
Fishing Report by: Wilderness Trail "Braggin Board"
Well, it is summertime, the longest day of the year has come and gone and the heat will be here for a while. It has been in the upper 80�s and low 90�s all week with a little rain, which didn�t amount to much. Generation has been high this week and the lake level dropped a foot, we are now at 653.20, with normal pool being 654.23. We have two thermo clines that have developed. This happens only in a while, so you need to take advantage of the two zones. The first thermo cline is at 28 to 32 feet and the game fish are sitting on the bottom in this zone. The second thermo cline starts at 40 feet and runs to 46 feet. The game fish in this zone are suspended between 28 to 32 feet, now we have a pattern. Water temperature continues to warm and the surface temperature is now at 82 degrees in the morning, warming to 84 degrees by late afternoon.
Crappie are biting on the brush piles and are on the bluff walls, but you have to move from spot to spot to catch one here and there. Bobby Garland Swimming Minnows and Crappie tubes are working the best.
Largemouth bass are hard to find during the day, which is normal for this time of year. Top water in the mornings will trigger a few in the back of the creeks and pockets throughout the lake. Zara Spooks, Sammy�s and buzz baits are the key lures. Throughout the day work Carolina rigs or football jigs in the thermo cline over drop offs.
Small mouth bass are scattered, some are on points, some are on flats and some are just suspended out over absolutely nothing. You are not going to catch a lot of keepers but when you hit the right bank or point you can trigger the smaller Small mouth on tubes and Spider Jigs. The keeper smallies can be caught in deeper water on Carolina rigs with Yum Wooly Hawgs, finesse worms and brush hogs. Football jigs are also starting to trigger the deeper smallies. Peanut butter and jelly and brown/purple have been the best colors.
Kentucky bass have been hard to catch this week because they are full of shad. We can find Kentucky's on bluff wall ends, in the middle of cuts and off main lake points, but they are under schools of shad and not very hungry. Drop shot rigs and spoons are you best lure and technique for triggering a strike.
Walleye have been very active this week with a number of limits being caught. They are in the thermo cline zone, which makes them a little easier to find. Night crawlers and leeches are working well on harnesses with bottom bouncers in the 28 to 32 foot range. Lead core trolling has been the hot technique this week pulling small baits, both in the 28 to 32 foot range and in the 40 to 46 foot range. Some baits that have been effective are Glass Shad, Hot�N Tots, Wiggle Warts and Deep Little Rippers. Long liners that are not using lead core have been catching a few on Bandit Walleye Diver, Deep Diving Rogues and Mann�s 20+ diving baits.
NIGHT TIME: Tough bite is the best way to explain this last week. Until it is the dark the bite is not there. From 9 to midnight the bite picks up on points and brush piles. Best baits are Gene Larew strawberry/gold or black neon worms, jig and pigs and Hula grubs.
Fishing for trout on the White River has been doing well. With low or no generation Berkley Power Eggs in yellow, white and pink have worked well along with red worms. With generation the Buoyant Spoons, Little Cleos and Countdown or Floating Rapala are the baits of choice. The fly fishermen have done extremely well with little generation on olive Woolly Bugger, Zebra Midges and sow bugs.. The Brown trout are being caught on Shad Raps, suspending rogues, Flat Fish and night crawlers.
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: 06/23/06
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 259.20 Temperature: 80 - 90
Outflow: 172 cfs. Level: 0.25 feet high
Report by: Millwood Lake Guide Service
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Millwood
The
Overall Picture:
The surface water
temperatures range from 80�-90�, depending of course, on location and time of
day. River's water clarity diminished from recent rains, and is approx
4-5". Main lake's clarity,
likewise diminished this week, at approx 3-5" visibility.
Several River markers remain missing and/or out of place on the main
lake, and Little River. As of
Tuesday 6/20, the lake level is approx 3.4 inches above normal level and slowly
falling. Current in Little River
remains as last week, with release at the dam 790CFS as of Tuesday.
The activity levels of Bass & Crappie are typical summer patterns
with high feeding periods early and late in the day.
Numbers of bass in the 3-6 lb are class being caught, with an occasional
fish in the 7-9 lb class. Over the
past 2 weeks, the AG&FC have released approx 147,000 Florida Bass into
Millwood ranging in size from 2" to 4" fingerlings and "bull
size" bass to fully grown 3-6 pound adult
The
Details:
Arkansas Game and Fish
Commission released 8 adult brood stock, purebred Florida Bass in Millwood last
Wednesday, and another approx 147,000 fingerlings over the past 2 weeks bringing
the 2006 total Florida Bass number to approximately 147,008 including the brood
adults from the AG&FC hatchery. This
brings the total number of Florida Bass stocked into Millwood since
approximately 1988 or 1990, to just under 2,000,000!!
The adult
It seems that the Hulsey
Hatchery folks did a fantastic job of raising fish this year and they had bumper
crops of
Largemouth Bass are
in full swing summer patterns, with the higher feeding periods early and late in
the day. Bass remain good on Ken
Pops in chrome/purple back, Salty Rat Tails, Sinko's, & Z-Nails in
watermelon red, black/blue flake or green pumpkin colors.
Bass Assassin Shads in crystal shad colors and War Eagle Spinner baits in
gold shiner, cole slaw, or firetiger colors are taking chunky Millwood Bass.
Bass Assassin twitch worms and wacky rigs are still catching keeper Bass.
Later in the day, once the
sun gets up and more direct, Zoom Horney Toads and Heddon Zara Mouses are taking
keeper fish in the backs of the pad fields where any hydraulic or grass intersect
pads, offering shade. Zoom baby
brush hogs in June bug or lizards in cotton candy colors are
working well. Southern Pro fat butt
tubes in pumpkin / chartreuse tail, or black neon colors are catching
fish on cypress. The Bass Assassin
shads in Texas Red, Tennessee Shad, or bubble gum colors, the trick worms in
bait fish blue/gray colors, continue working
over the last few weeks, around vegetation in creek channels.
Senkos or Trick worms in
black/blue fleck, watermelon-red, purple fleck and white ice, are working best
around grass mats in 2-4 feet of water, up Little River close to deeper water.
Stay close to the river, but early and late don't hesitate to throw a
buzz bait or spinner bait in the grass in shallow sloughs immediately off the
river, or on points tapering out into 14 feet depths.
The jig bite seems to have improved in the last week, however, we have
switched over to throwing a white jig with a Zoom spilt milk double curly tail
trailer. We are throwing this white
jig, and swimming it around grass, lily pads, and coontail over the last few
days. We are having much more
success swimming the jig around grass, than slow hopping around wood.
10-12" Berkley Power worms, in blue fleck or June bug colors are still
working well around stumps, especially on points, in vegetation and grass.
Crappie are also
into their summer patterns and remain stacked up in Little River approx 15-19
feet deep in planted tree tops and are best on shiners.
Jigs occasionally will buy a few bites, but the shiners remain taking the
better size fish.
Very large, Spotted or Long nose
Gar are noted very shallow again this week, presenting very good
opportunities for bow fishermen to take out some really large female Gar.
We have noted Gar in excess of 20 pounds each, in water depths of less
than 3 feet, in McGuire and Horseshoe Lake oxbows of Little River.
Channel and Blue Cats
continue hitting cut shad, chicken livers and Catfish Charlie on trot lines in
17-20 feet depth in Little River current.
At night, yo-yos are working around Jack's Isle and in Mud Lake under
cypress trees, baited with chicken livers or Catfish Charlie and homemade blood
bait, hung from tree limbs in 7-11 foot depths.
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Millwood Lake & Little River Conditions Report
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Water clarity in upriver
oxbows diminished over the past week's rain, at approx 1-3 feet, depending on
location. Little River stain &
clarity is approx 4-5 inches, depending on location.
Main lake is also reduced this week to approx 3-5".
As of Tuesday, the lake level is approx 3.4 inches above the normal pool,
at 259.49 feet and slowly falling. Discharge
at the dam as of Tuesday this week remains at 790CFS with 2 gates are open at 1
foot each. Some floating vegetation
and debris, grass mats, logs, etc. noted in the river over the past week from
recent rise. Use caution in low
light navigations, especially on Little River!
Water temps climbed a few
degrees over the past week. The
increase of surface temps over the last 2 weeks, have put most all the bass and
crappie into their summer routine patterns, typical for this time of year.
Wear that Life Jacket!! If you are thrown from your boat, it could be your only chance of survival.
Wear
that Life Jacket!! If you are thrown
from your boat, it could be your only chance of survival.
Use
EXTREME caution navigating Little River in low light conditions, and SLOW DOWN!
Careful watch for floaters and debris in Little River's current, and
wearing your PFD is a requirement!!
Don't forget, be safe, and respect the other guy's right to use the lake too. Release those big bass to spawn and fight again, and take home those little 16"ers to fry up! Use caution in low light conditions, wear your Life Preserver and SUNSCREEN! If you are suddenly thrown from your boat, or knocked unconscious, your life preserver can potentially be your only hope to survive.
All
the best,
Mike
Lake Elevation at Normal Pool: 552.0 Temperature:
Release Rate: 1470 cfs. Level: 10.29 feet low
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