Arkansas Lakes Fishing Report

Lake - Bull Shoals 12/13/04 :

Dam area to Lead Hill: Your best bet still is the deep bite, look for concentrations of shad on bluff end and main lake channel swings, the fish don't always appear on the graph when you first see the shad, sometimes they are in the bait and other times they are holding so tight to the bottom they won't show on your graph. Fish the edges, both bottom and sides, of the school with a white spoon, drop shot or grub if you don't see any fish on the graph work the bait just above the bottom and see if you can get them to react to it, if there are shad around there are usually fish as well.

Lead Hill to Power site: There is still allot of current in the upper end of Bull Shoals, look for current breaks on points and channel swings and throw a brown craw or watermelon seed wiggle wart in and around these spots. If you catch a couple of fish and they seem to stop biting go back over the same breaks with an Eakins' jig in brown or Missouri craw with a twin tailed grub trailer to pick up the inactive fish.