Fishing Report 6/29/10

[Mike Worley]

The bite on lower Bull Shoals is still pretty much red hot with lots of keeper fish being caught if you know where to look. The lake level has been dropping for a few weeks now and this has affected the larger fish more than the smaller ones. You can still catch lots of walleyes & bass in the shallower depths along the banks with a few keepers mixed in. If you want to catch a higher percentage of keeper walleyes move out off the banks and target suspended fish in the larger coves, deeper creeks and main lake points that have a defined creek channel or ditch in them. These fish are suspended from 20' - 40'down in 30-100 fow. My tournament partner (Al Denninger) and I prefished for the MSW walleye tournament last week and caught 4 fish limits that weighed in the 12-15+ pound range on most days. The most productive big fish lure was the 800 Reef Runner in any kind of white color. Another good lure was the larger size Hot N Tot's in several different colors ranging from Fire tiger to gold. Lead coring shadrap type lures will also work with white or blue being the best colors. But most of the fish we caught were caught with either slow death spinner rigs or whole crawlers on wally pop type lures dead sticked in the 20-25 depth range over 30-40fow. also caught some real nice sized KY's, crappie & catfish on this pattern. I haven't had much time to target bass lately but a good friend of mine Bob Pauletti who guides mostly for bass tells me the Ky's are really biting crawfish & crawlers out on the main lake points in 30-40fow again look for defined drop offs..............This fishing report is brought to you by............Mike Worley's Guide Service (ar.walleyes@yahoo.com)& Al Denninger (www.point-12.com)

[kwall]

Thanks for the help, I started fishin' for eyes a couple of years ago and enjoy the fire out of it.I fish OK,KS,MO lakes but only fished BSL once for them,sounds like I need to make a trip back to BSL. THANKS AGIN.

[Hunter91]

We hit Lead Hill this past weekend and caught about a dozen eyes. Only two keepers a 19 incher and 21 incher. About 30 fow bb with nightcrawlers. Using mostly the slow death rig. Also caught a very nice mess of big bluegill along with some kentuckies and smallmouth in the 12-15in range.