McLellan’s Fly Shop said at least one unit is running most mornings, gradually stepping up to six units by early afternoon.  However, some days have seen 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. Terrestrials are also heating up the water, with the Club Sandwich, Nick’s Hi-Viz Beetle and Rainy’s Ant in black and cinnamon bringing in some good surface action.

Wilderness Trail said fishing for trout on the White River has been good on Berkley Power Eggs in yellow and orange, Berkley Nuggets in orange and Belgian red worms. Buoyant Spoons, Rooster Tails and Little Cleos are the bait of choice during generation. Fly-fishermen are doing well on olive Woolly Buggers, Zebra Midges, soft hackles, olive scuds and sow bugs. Brown trout are being caught on Suspending Rogues, Flat Fish and nightcrawlers.

North Fork River: McLellan’s Fly Shop said 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. During high-water conditions, streamer fishing has been excellent from a boat (especially on overcast days). Many trout are being hooked on terrestrials - grasshoppers, ants and beetles - and it will only get better as summer continues. 

Bull Shoals Lake: Wilderness Trail said the extreme heat throughout the day has pushed the lake temperature up to 89.7 degrees. The lake level is at 649.62 feet and the thermocline remains steady at 31 feet. Crappie have moved into the comfort layer of the thermocline and are holding in about 30 feet of water in the middle of the cuts, off the points and along the bluff walls on pole trees. Crappie minnows Bink’s crappie spoons have worked well this week. Catfish are in the 20-foot range in the creeks and are biting on nightcrawlers, Magic Bait and chicken liver. The best time to fish has been from 7 p.m. to midnight. Largemouth bass are active in the morning up against the banks in the creeks. Zara Spooks, buzzbaits and chuggers will trigger some reaction strikes. There is an afternoon bite that started last week in the heat of the day. Largemouth are attacking spoons and Carolina-rigged finesse worms in 30 to 34 feet of water around points and deep brush piles.  If you can stand the heat, you can get some bites.  Smallmouth bass are a little deeper than the largemouths and are around chunk rock points and transition banks throughout the lake. Mojo-rigged centipedes, Brush Hogs or finesse worms in watermelon or cotton candy are working well. Tubes and spider jigs are working well in the mornings and late afternoons on smallies that have moved into the 24- to 28-foot range to feed. Work your baits slow because the smallies are not very aggressive. Kentucky bass are staying with the shad, making them hard to find. Spooning is the best technique along with a drop-shot rig with 4-inch finesse worms. Live-bait anglers are catching Kentuckies on a split shot and leech pulled under the shad. Walleye have been active this week with the best bite from 2 p.m. until dark. Crawler harnesses and leech harnesses on bottom bouncers, spooning vertically with white or silver spoons and trolling a blue Glass Shad on lead core are all working in 30 to 32 feet of water.

Lake Norfork: Cranfield Junction Quik Stop said the lake is at 544.48 feet and the water is clear. Bream are biting well in 15 to 20 feet of water on crickets fished around the brush piles. Crappie fishing is poor, but the fish are holding in 25 to 30 feet of water and a few have been tricked into biting a crappie minnow or two around the brush piles. Bass fishing is good at night on soft plastics and jigs fished from 5- to 25-feet deep. Catfishing is good on nightcrawlers in the evenings in water 16- to 20-feet deep.