Ruark Bluff

[Brad N Steph]

Great fishing.  I put in at the Ruark Bluff swimming area and paddled around in my Kayak all day.  Started the day off catching 2 white bass in the morning, did some paddling around and exploring, Then I paddled into a cove after I saw over a half a dozen boats motor up into this cove and I watched them but nobody caught anything so I paddled up in and figured I'd give it a try if it was as popular as it looked.  Caught 1 walleye, 1 crappie, 2 largemouth bass, and a good sized catfish.  Wind was blowing pretty hard around 1 but died down and the temp dropped a couple degrees and that's when the fish really started biting.  I fished with 2 different lures all day, The hard bait i was using caught all but 1 of the fish.  The softbait caught one of the largemouth.