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Bull shoals has the potential to be a world class striper lake. I have cleaned hundreds if not thousands of stripers over the years and always check the contents. I have very rarely found anything besides shad, crawdads and trout in the stomach of the fish I have cleaned, and I have never found a bass, crappie or walleye. Not saying they dont chew on one from time to time but I have never found one even though the waters I fish are loaded with with them. Bring em

That's what they look like!! Been awhile. Nice eyes

Definitely been there done that. Usually jacking the truck up and putting wood and rocks under the tires. But they have recently graveled it. Couldn't believe it. Long time coming. As far as the shallow flats that is all I hit at night. I've never done well in deeper water at night. Most my biggest eyes have come two foot from bank. I toss the rogue as close too the bank as possible twitch then slowley bring it back twitching the whole way. I also throw my live bait with no weight and let it swim or wiggle right next to the bank, especially if there is an Eddie present.

Lot of that going on down there. We got roosted out Fri went to barker but no luck there. Tried to bring up ypur site but couldn't get it to come up.. Let me know when your going to be down there

There is a road sign there called barker hole road. Most the guys i have seen are using live bait, but in the past i have used rogues and purple swimming minnows at the head of the hole after dark. Trolling rogues on a long line probably the best way to find them this time of year...Just go slow no more that=n a mile an hour. If your in a boat put in at the bridge and head down stream. youll see the access and where people have been on the banks. There is also a bluff just below.

If your going for walleye try purple swimming minnows or clown, purple back, or shad colored stickbaits after dark. Should be getting good anytime now....

Fished pothole from 8 pm til midnight Fri had one bight and caught one keeper...Went to barker hole after that and fished for two hours and had no luck. Went to swan creek area and caught another keeper around 2;30 am. Left shortly after. Saw numerous others fishing and only seen two other walleyes caught, both of those were short. Decided to go to udhall sat afternoon and fished til 10;30 p and only caught one 9 inch walleye. Seen a couple other small walleye caught along with some very small whites. How did everyone else do????

most consistant on norfork and bullshoals has been storm swim bait. Trout colored on bullshoals and shad colored on Norfork. Use 4-6 inchers in spring and early summer and 8-10 inchers in late summer and early fall. But if you can catch shad it is the best all around. If you can not catch shad, large shiners work well. Either free line the live baits or balloon them. I know a lot of people also use long bombers and jerk baits after dark thrown towards main lake points after dark.

how undetectable does it need to be????? Is anyone going to be doing tissue samples??? Yes we actually send trees in for testing when a neighbor believes someone has murdered their tree. If there is no worries of tissue samples then the above methods will work, however, if enough fuss has been made that someone may suspect you killed their tree and make problems for you then you need to be a little sneakier about it. Depending on the species, and location you could infect it with a biological parasite easily found in the area ie, bagworms, scale, etc...or next time there is a severe thunderstorm in your neck of the woods break it just above the ground like it was wind damaged or drop a large limb on it, or if it is in a location where no one else is going to notice it for awhile like in the set back area take a piece of galvanized wire and twist it around the base of the trunk close to the ground. It may take over a year for the tree to die but the bark will grow over the tree hiding the wire and the wire will eventually choke the tree off. Also depending on the species most trees will die from being buried too deep, add 8 inches of top soil around the trunk and the bark will rot off. If the tree is a pine or other "dry" tree just over water it.

All my days run together but I do believe that was the night me and a buddy had the boat up there and fished with no luck then finally banked it and ended with a few short fish. Were you also there? DID YOU HAVE ANY LUCK?

They are a little late this year. Have not done very good either as of late. Mostly all small males. Shouldn't be long. Hopefully we get this heavy rain tomorrow and that may send it full swing. Keep our fingers crossed.

You got that right....ended up at udhall and still could not find much water. Saw some eyes in there looking back at my light but couldnt get a hit. Definetely with ya on the rain.

They are on demand only and are affected by tablerock or power demand. I have a link for generation on my website ozarkstripers.com that i check before i go down there but find that if tbr is generating then usually but not always powersite will generate.. And it usually does start about 3 hours later as mentioned above. Also quite commonly powersite is generating even though tbr is not. It is frustrating, I don't know how many times i got down there just as they turned it off. Wouldn't be bad if I lived closer. What I have noticed is that if it is real cold or if it is real hot then powersite usually gets on a pretty regular schedule to meet the power needs. Pray for enough rain to force the water over the dam its the only time you can rely on a current...

We catch a lot of blue cats this time of year on norfork right above the bridges useing shiners and fishing in 60 -80 foot of water with 11 foot crappie rods and 6 lb test. It is a blast. biggest was 42 pounds last year. Beauty of it you will usually get some stripers and hybrids while your at it. Light line is a must because of the clarity of the water and the long rods is the only way to get them in plus it is a lot of fun....Check my website and youll see some pics of the blues and the stripers from last year ozarkstripers.com

you can get up to the dam but if they are not generating or they turn it off when you are up there it gets real shallow. Was up there this weekend and got boat hung on a log in 1 1/2 foot of water. took awhile to get it off. Over all water was very shallow and we did not locate any fish on the graph. They did turn on the water after dark and we parked the boat and bank fished some eddies and caught some short eyes. water temp was 47 while they were generating channel was between 5 and 7 feet deep