Arkansas Lakes Fishing Report

Lake - Bull Shoals 07/12/06

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Lake - Bull Shoals 07/12/06

Fishing report for BULL SHOALS LAKE home of the record Largemouth Bass.
Submitted as a community service by SPRING CREEK ENTERPRISES, Don and Judy Schnable 417 273 4859 schnabs@webound.com

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July 12, 2006

The word for this week is “stable”. The weather has been stable, the lake temperature has been stable, the thermocline is stable and the water level has been stable.

Lake temperature has actually cooled off a degree or so with the cooler nights, it is running 81 to 82 degrees throughout most of the lake. The thermocline is from about 28 to 32 feet, with most of the game fish, bass and walleye, hanging out at that depth during the day.

The lake level is 652.26, which is exactly 2 feet below normal pool. With light generation throughout the week, this remained steady. The crappie are still feeding better at night than during the day under floating lights. Bobby Garland Swimming Minnow in Blue Thunder or Smoke have worked extremely well along with crappie minnows on a colored jig head. The catfish are being caught in the early evenings until after dark on nightcrawlers and chicken livers in some of the coves.

Largemouth bass are hanging around the thermocline in some sort of structure; brush piles being their favorite. The largemouth seem to be in the brush piles during the day as well as at night. They are also hanging out under floating docks and around blow downs or tree tops. Texas rigged worms (strawberry gold flake) have worked during the day around the brush piles. Carolina rigs and football jigs are working around the tree tops and the deep side of points that have some structure.

Smallmouth are in the brush piles also. They are biting on Spider Jigs in cinnamon purple with a purple trailer and Carolina rigged brush hogs or YUM Wooly Hawgtail. The Smallmouth can be found on pea rock banks that have brush and chunk rock banks with ledges. Kentuckys are traveling with the schools of shad in 30 to 32 feet of water. Small spoons or a drop shot 4” worm is your best bet.

Walleye have not changed much this week, they are still near the thermocline in 28 to 34 feet of water. The walleye have been caught this past week morning, afternoon and evening. During the day the crawler harness or leech harness have worked the best along with long lining Hot’N Tots, Reef Runners, Deep Little Rippers, and Glass Shad. The best color this past week seemed to be “purple”, and if it has a little bit of pink and/or yellow, all the better.

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 wtrail@bullshoals.net or check out our web site at www.wildernesstrail.com

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