Fishing Tip: Summer mornings are prime time for buzzbaits. But many people a buzzbait has to be fished fast. The best bet is to retrieve a buzzbait just fast enough to keep it on top of the water. Adding a soft-plastic grub or pork frog to the hook will add buoyancy and let you slow down even more to work weed edges thoroughly.

White River: Gaston's White River Resort said the water is clear and generation has been slow for the last week. There have been some excellent catches of trout on yellow and white Power Bait and on olive and black sow bugs for the fly fishers. McLellan’s Fly Shop said fly-fishing from a boat during high water has been producing a lot of hook-ups lately on larger scud and sow bug patterns. Best flies have been:  Flashback Scuds (sizes 12 to 16), McLellan’s Woven Sow (sizes 14 to 16), Mercury Brassie (18-20), Rojo Midge (22), and Mercury Blood Midge (20-22).

North Fork River: McLellan’s Fly Shop said Generation has been more sporadic lately on the North Fork, but there have been some good wade-fishing opportunities during the mornings. On recent guide trips, we have been catching several fat brook trout just below Norfork Dam. During low water, concentrate your nymph fishing on the faster runs and riffles; tie on a size 16 Skip Nymph or Flashback Pheasant Tail. During high water, try streamer fishing from a boat. Best flies have been: Flashback Scud Tan, Olive and Gray (sizes 12 to 16), McLellan’s Woven Sow Bug (sizes 14 to 16), Graphic Caddis Tan and Olive (sizes 14 to 18), Skip Nymph (sizes 14 to 18), Flashback Pheasant Tail Nymph (sizes 16 to 20), Beadhead Hare’s Ear Nymph (sizes 14 to 18), and Swimming Jimmy (size 4).

Bull Shoals Lake: Wilderness Trail said there was not much change in the weather, the lake or the bite this week. Daytime temperatures stayed in the 90s. The lake level came back up about half a foot and is now at 653.26. The thermocline remains steady at 36 feet and the lake surface temperature is at 85.2 degrees. Crappie are on the brush piles at night and moving into 30 feet of water out on the points during the heat of the day and in the pole trees along the bluffs. Crappie minnows and Bobby Garland Swimming Minnows are the best baits to use. Largemouth bass have been feeding in the mornings and at night on shad and crayfish. The day bite is very slow. Buzzbaits, Zara Spook Jrs., Pop R's and Chug Bugs trigger feeders in the creeks in the mornings. Back off the banks after the sun is up and throw spider jigs or Carolina rigs and Brush Hogs, centipedes or finesse worms. Smallmouth bass have moved to the middle of the channel swings in the creeks and on the main lake. Tubes, Spider Jigs, Booyah Baby Boo Jigs and Mojo Rigs with Fish Doctors, centipedes or finesse worms were the key baits this week. Kentucky Bass continue to do their summer thing, traveling with the shad and moving to the banks for crawdads every once in a while. Spoons are working well under the shad along with drop shot rigs with finesse worms. Tubes and spider jigs work the best on the Kentuckys searching for crayfish. Chunk rock points and banks are the areas to fish. Walleye are inside the thermocline moving to the banks throughout the night and feeding in the mornings. Crawler harnesses and leech harnesses trolled in 20 to 25 feet of water with bottom bouncers are catching a few. Long liners are pulling Reef Runners and Glass Shad around main lake points and catching a few. Other baits working well are the new Wally Minnow, Jr., Bill Norman's Deep Little N and Shad Raps. Sugar Loaf Harbor said the lake is clear and low. Bream fishing is good on red worms. Crappie are off the bite some and the fishermen are only reporting fair catches on minnows. Bass are good on Road Runners and soft plastics. Many spearfishers are taking walleye.

Lake Norfork: Cranfield Junction Quik Stop said the lake is down a few feet and the water is clear. Bream fishing is good in the shallows on crickets, Belgian worms and nightcrawlers. Crappie are fair at night underneath fishing lights in 25 to 30 feet of water. Whites and hybrids are good in the mornings on topwaters, but as the sun rises, they are going deep and can be caught on Little Georges. Stripers are being caught by the dam in 35 to 45 feet of water on live shad and trolled umbrella rigs. Largemouths are biting fair in the mornings and good at night on soft-plastic grubs and tubes. Smallmouth bass are fair in the mornings on tubes and live crayfish. Catfishing is fair on nightcrawlers and prepared baits.