Arkansas Lakes Fishing Report

Lake - Bull Shoals 02/25/05:

Dam area to Lead Hill: Kentucky's and Smallmouth continue to be caught on tubes and Jewel 5/16oz. spider jigs on ledge rock and deeper points, look for the areas where deep water is close by. On windy days fish 45 degree chunk rock banks with a wiggle wart or bandit 200 in a crawfish pattern, parallel the bank in about 6' - 10' of water. Largemouth are moving into the northern creek arms and can be caught on Eakins' jigs in PB&J with an Eakins' craw trailer, look for most of the fish to be in transition areas.

Lead Hill to Power site: The walleye are still staging and can be caught on Lucky Craft pointers and crankbaits in deeper pools up the river and in major creek arms. They have not actually started to spawn so they are pretty aggressive and tend to be bunch up, trolling seems to be the best method to catch them, when you find one there should be more in the same area at the same depth. The white bass are on the move as well, look for them to be running schools of shad on windy points.