Any Bass Reports?

[Conman64]

I will be at Norfork for the first time ever this weekend and am curious what to expect. I plan on bass fishing, any help anyone could provide would be much appreciated.

Thanks

chris

[Sprint21fter]

Very busy with the Bass Cat Invitational. Heard the Cystic Tournament the weekend before was won with 15lbs. Don't know what to tell you everytime I have fished over there things change week to week this time of the year especially during this two weeks of 200-400 boats fishing the lake. Enjoy and have fun. Just keep an open mind and fish what feels right.

[CartneyAccess]

297 Boats last week and 500 this week for the bass cat, I think I'm gonna try my new green light and do some night fishing for crappie.

[Stump bumper]

The Bass Cat was closer to 279 boats, I was there and not very many boats brought in more than 2 fish per day. Cold front had bass close to cover and there is very little of that on Norfolk. I saw one boat on a wind blown point with a big brush pile net about 20 fish up by the dam but could not find a bite anywhere else in that creek.

Good luck that was my last trip to Norfork, I thought Beaver could be tough but that was just too tough a lake for me.

I talked to a lot of anglers in the Bass Cat and even the ones who lived on the lake were only coming in with one fish, some had one fish in two days. A little pressure and that lake is tough.

On the bright side the spots we caught were very fat healthy fish and over 15in, you don't find many spots like that on Beaver, they looked like Table Rock spots. They said the shad really died off and it was evident looking at the locator since we ran all over the lake and never found a good shad ball, I hope the shad are able to come back from this winter quickly.

[brian c]

Plenty of shad left in the lake diamond Creek was slap full of them wednesday. The bass have been feeding heavily with shad kill and that has just curtailed in the last week. My opinion is that is what made the bite so tuff for the cat tourny along with the added pressure.

We had two keeps Friday and 3 saturday. Finally figured something out Saturday late but ran outta time to fill out our limit. As this week progresses the bite should get really good on norfork.

The arig should catch some fish in staging areas close to spawning areas.

[CartneyAccess]

47 degree water is the problem. 10 fish 28 pounds won it and only one other team finished weighing 10 fish.

They need to move it back 3-4 weeks. Bass Cat Im talking about