Buck Creek Area - This Weekend - Question

[Beth H]

Hi,

First time posting here-

Question, my husband and I will be at Blue Waters Resort this weekend for our annual anniversary fishing trip.

Since spring has been so late this year, how's the water temp, bass and walleye fishing? Last fishing report I saw was for April 19th.

Also, I know there are supposed to be storms in the area on Sunday. When checking weather, which weather report do you guys follow, the one out of Springfield, MO or the one out of Little Rock, AR? Trying to determine approx what part of the day the storms will hit on Sunday.

Thanks so much for your help!

[Fishin Hodge]

Water temps on Tuesday were from the upper 50's to the lower 60's. There are bass in the bushes around the shoreline and some of them are making beds. You can catch of few on just about anything in the right areas. There are still some fish out in the 10-20 foot range too, and those were a little better fish on average for me.

I have not caught a walleye in a couple months now, but haven't tried. I am sure they are there for the taking. My guess would be the flatter water coming out of the creeks, possibly even out in the main lake, in the 20 foot range, purely speculation there though.

[Beth H]

Thanks for the info, appreciate it.

[Sprint21fter]

Fished Buck Creek area last Friday, WT 57 in the morning and 61 at 3:45. Fished an asortment of baits from topwaters,cranks,to bottom baits with plastics. Caught fish on the mainlake around gravel and inside the creeks. Caught two nice walleye off a gravel point in 22ft before that caught 3 nice largemouth dragging plastics around on the same mainlake point.

[Beth H]

Thanks for the info!!!

[Col Ron]

Beth:

I am going out today with a client for walleye, I will give you a report, hopefully by this evening. I am guiding Saturday and Sunday and I too, have an eye on the Sunday forecast. I don't go by either one of your weather reports you mentioned. The weather in the lower end of Bull is totally different than Table Rock/ Branson/ or Springfield. You need to use the weather channel app on the computer and put in Lakeview, Arkansas and go by that. On Saturday afternoon, you should be able to click hour by hour forecast for Sunday,,,,normally, it is pretty acurate, normally.

Generally, the walleye are only showing up at night or early evening on the points with stick baits. I am going to try to break that trend today. Gorgeous day with low winds expected.

Col Ron

www.colonelronguide.com

[Beth H]

Thanks so much Ron, that helps immensely.

Good luck on those walleye. We were out last night after we got here and man, the fish sure are in a bad mood. And I can't believe how clear it is! Our home lake is Lake Keystone in OK. It's so murky, half the time you can't see your lure 2" below the surface. I knew it would be clear here, but it's practically like an aquarium, lol

[Col Ron]

Been guiding on the river, didn't have too much time to report. The walleyes are not showing up. I thought by the end of April we would be in good shape, but it is a struggle out there. We are still paying for our cold winter. When they are not on the graphs, don't waste your time. Night fishing is productive, we will just have to wait a couple more weeks and hopefully things will make a big turn. They should be on the feed now or a week or so ago. Temp. 60 degrees.

[Mike Worley]

Ron, we found some walleyes yesterday in Diamond City area. They didn't show up very well on the graph for some reason. They seemed to be suspended about 12-18' over about 30'fow on rocky points. We caught a few keepers and a few shorts on bottom bouncers & crawler rigs. I think trolling crank baits would have worked better but there were way too many bass boats fishing everywhere for that. Maybe the suspended fish were moving away from the boat as it passed over.

[Beth H]

Good info, thanks!!