White bass

[Scott Keling]

How far above the bridge does one have travel to find the whites with the lake being 20 feet above power pool? Anyone having any luck?

[Woodpecker]

I'm curious about this too. I know Swan turns into backwater pretty quick with high water.. not sure about Beaver. 

[fishinwrench]

Never fished the spring run there, but as a general rule you need to run up to the 2nd or 3rd riffle (wherever that may be) and work your way down from there.    If they have begun their migration you should find them pretty quickly.

[Dutch]

With the water that high riffles won’t be anywhere below the 160 bridge.

[Fish24/7]

They run  up a river or feeder creeks until they can't swim any further is what I heard. High water means they can go a lot further back than usual I guess?

I've seen them so far up a creek during  high water they are swimming around in what is typically dry Creek bottoms during normal pool.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Beaver Creek is usually excellent about now. My Facebook memories told me i caught limits 3 different times on the 1st over the last 10 years or so..  With the high water you can run a long ways up Beaver, Even in high water years ive never caught them all that far up though.  Bull just cant catch a break, I remember when i was young always bank fishing all over Beaver but thats all 20 FT under the last few years

[Scott Keling]

At 654 the 2nd and 3rd riffle is just above the tin horns. 660 they are above the bridge. 680, ? A mile above the bridge? Maybe 

[Ham]

They need flow to keep the fertilized eggs viable. They run until they find flow.

wind blown areas can work in a pinch

[Dutch]

Lower lake areas have white bass spawns without shoals. Like Ham stated.  When I target them I like to have a consistent wind direction preferably for 3 days In a row then fis those places at night.  Buck tail jigs in red/black and purple/orange have been my best producers unless the moon is bright.

This has always been a late April or early May thing, way later than the river spawn.

[Bill Babler]

I know they go clear to Chadwick as a good friend of mine live there and fishes off a low water bridge that they cannot get above.  They don't get up that far every year, but I bet they can this year.