Arkansas Lakes Fishing Report

Lake - Bull Shoals 12/04/06

Dam area to Lead Hill: The best bite has been on pea gravel points and roll offs with either a Jewel football and spider jig or a Chompers’ ultra tube. The best colors on the jigs have PB&J or watermelon / purple flash both with a green pumpkin Chompers’ jig trailer and in the tube, green pumpkin and pumpkin seed have been effective. With either bait maintain bottom contact through out the retrieve from 15’ – 30’ deep and pay close attention to any wood or rock cover you bring the bait across. Spotted Bass can be caught on War Eagle spoons and Chompers’ drop shot worms in and around schools of shad on bluff ends and deep points on both the main lake and in the major creek arms.

Lead Hill to Power site: There is still a fair spinnerbait and crankbait bite toward the back of many creek arms in the upper half of the lake. You will need to run a War Eagle Screaming Eagle in spot remover or a watermelon Storm Wiggle Wart tight to the bank and into any wood cover you find in order to trigger strikes. The more reliable bite has been to fish a brown or PB&J Eakins’ jig with a green pumpkin Eakins craw on channel swing banks toward the backs of the major creek arms. Run back into creeks looking for the last channel swing, fish the Eakins jig from the bank out the channel paying close attention to the area where the channel swings tightest to the bank.