The best bite on the lake at this time, is for largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass. At sunrise, you can find some topwater action up close to the shoreline and out on long shallower points. Yesterday my daughter and I had fun throwing Zara Spooks and Whopper Ploppers. The fish are very aggressive. When you see a small swirl in the water cast your bait at the swirl and give it a twitch, the fish will hammer it. As the sun gets over the tree line the fish start to go deeper. Once they go deep start looking just outside of the sunken buck brush on the wind blown points, which will be in about 20 – 25 feet of water. Start throwing a grub or just about any dark plastic, and work it along the bottom. You don’t need to work it fast, but you will need to pay attention as the bite at this time has been very light.
The striped bass have gone deep earlier this year than
normal. You will find stripers anywhere from 30 – 70 feet, either suspended or
on the bottom. I have been having
difficulty in finding large numbers of stripers in any one area. They are
scattered throughout the lake. Live bait has been working the best, but you
have to work at it. When you find the fish, you can also vertical jig a spoon
and you will pick up a few nice fish. Trolling large swimbaits is also picking
up some nice fish keeping the bait at about 50 feet deep back in some of the
major creeks. The best locations to start looking for this species are from the
Robinson area down to the dam and also back to the Big Creek area. They will be
up in the 30 feet range early in the morning, then head deeper as the sun comes
up.
Norfork Lake has risen to 573.78, but currently is starting to drop with both of the generators running constantly. Both generators running for the entire day will drop the lake about 3 inches per day. The main lake is fairly clear, with the creeks and coves slightly stained. The current surface water temperature is in the mid 80’s.
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