White River: Gaston's White River Resort said the river is low and running clear. Six to eight generators are running every afternoon. The trout fishing is good on wax worms, nightcrawlers, Little Cleos, and gold-and-red Buoyant Spoons. Fly-fishing is good on sow bug patterns and black ants.

McLellan’s Fly Shop said some days last week saw a few hours of low water in the morning, with generators not coming online until 11 a.m. In the faster riffles and runs, drift a scud, sow bug, mayfly nymph or caddis pupa under a strike indicator. The catch-and-release area immediately below the dam has been fishing especially well lately. Caddis action is still hot on the White, so be sure to have plenty of caddis pupa, as well as dries, in your fly box.

Wilderness Trail said fishing for trout on the White River continues to be good on Berkley Power Eggs in yellow and pink and Belgian red worms. Buoyant Spoons, Rooster Tails and Super Dupers are the bait of choice during generation. The fly fishermen did well on olive Woolly Buggers, tungsten beadhead midges, soft hackles and scuds. The brown trout are going for Suspending Rogues and nightcrawlers.   

North Fork River: McLellan’s Fly Shop said on most days, generation has been coming online around 2 p.m., providing plenty of wading opportunities. During low water, concentrate your nymph fishing on the faster runs and riffles. Many trout are being hooked on terrestrials.

Bull Shoals Lake: Wilderness Trail said it has been a slow week with temperatures ranging from 90 during the day to mid-70s at night. The lake temperature is 87.6 degrees this week, cooling to 84 degrees at night. The lake level is 649.73, and the thermocline is at 29 feet. White bass have moved out over the channels and are holding under the schools of shad that have moved down into the thermocline. It’s spooning time! Silver, white and silver/blue spoons are starting to trigger some nice whites in the mornings under the shad. It is not a hot bite but it can be rewarding. Crappie have moved away from the brush piles and have relocated off points and over channels. Live crappie minnows fished either on a slip bobber or a jighead down around 30-feet deep are working well. Largemouth bass remain slow during the day but the morning and night bite is decent. Largemouths are up on the banks at dawn and can be caught on buzzbaits, Pop R’s, Zara Spooks and Chug Bugs up until the sun is shines on the water. The night bite starts around the points and ledges and moves to brush piles and channel swings throughout the night. Texas-rigged worms and bass jigs have been the best night baits.  Fish mojo-rigged finesse worms or centipedes and a Carolina rig with lizards or Brush Hogs on drop offs with 30 to 40 feet of water during the day. Smallmouth bass are now down in the thermocline where the shad have moved to in the last week. Spooning will trigger a few smallies feeding on the shad, but your best technique at this time is fishing a drop-shot rig or swimming a grub or 4” worm. The best baits on the drop-shot have been 4-inch finesse worms, tiny brush hogs and beaver tail grubs. Kentucky bass are on the same pattern as the smallies, only deeper. The smallies are under the shad at about 30 to 34 feet and the Kentuckies are down in the 50-foot range. ¾-ounce Bink’s spoons and Cotton Cordell spoons have been the best lures.  The walleye are acting strange; they are feeding from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. They are inside and on top of the thermocline, which puts them in the 30-foot range. Leeches have been hot all week fished on a harness with bottom bouncers. Main lake pea rock banks and chunk rock banks are key holding areas.  Long liners are catching a few out over the top of the standing forest throughout the lake.  Leadcore trolling with Reef Runners, Wally Divers, Glass Shad and Bill Norman’s DD14s has produced well.

Lake Norfork: Cranfield Junction Quik Stop said the lake is low and clear. Crappie fishing is good at night along the banks fishing jigs and minnows underneath lights. Bass are good early in the morning on spinnerbaits and top-water lures and are biting very well at night on dark-colored soft plastics. Catfish are excellent on trotlines baited with worms, blood bait, chicken livers and hot dogs. The morning walleye bite is fair, with most of the marble-eyes being taken on slab spoons. Trolling cranks in the evening is also bringing in a few fish. Stripers and hybrids are fair early in the morning on spoons and trolled umbrella rigs. Bream fishing is excellent along the banks on wax worms, red worms and crickets.