Current Bull Shoals Fishing Report

[Mike Worley]

I have been pretty busy the last few days looking for walleyes. The shad are spawning on the lower to mid section of BSL and the walleyes & white bass are feeding on them. We have caught walleyes from very shallow to 40 foot deep. Jigging spoons in the back of the creeks that are being used by the threadfin shad for spawning has produced some great action for both large white bass as well as walleyes and black bass. Early morning and late afternoon have been the best times to find the spoon bite fish. Look for the creeks that you can graph balls of shad suspended in deep water and go to the back of that creek and try to find a creek channel drop off in about 30 FOW. White 1 OZ jigging spoons are what worked best for us. We also found some large walleyes feeding near the front of these creeks in deep water (60'-100') larger walleyes are suspended under the shad balls about 20'-40' down and are biting on Reef Runners, deep diving Rogues and Walleye Bandits. Yesterday our best was a 5LB+ that bit a purple back Rogue fished on leadcore line. The bottom bouncer / crawler bite is also starting to work. Try to keep the spinner rig down to the size of the shad which is about 3" silver & blue slow death spinner with half of a nightcrawler caught a nice 20"+ walleye yesterday. We also have found walleyes feeding in shallow water in the creeks, small crankbaits trolled behind a planer board has worked in water less than 10' deep.

[Mike Worley]

The night time walleye bite on stickbaits is also working. I fished last night and caught 10 walleyes with 5 of them being keepers up to about 21". The walleyes were very shallow and very aggressive. Day or night shallow or deep the bite is on!!...........><^^^(;>

[Guest]

Thats one helluva fishin report.

I don't know much about leadcore line and trolling but it sounds very cool...