The lake level is 597.82 or roughly two-feet low. Water is gin clear everywhere since we have little rainfall in two months. Water temps are running 73-78 warming as day goes on. All summer the bait fish have remained shallow up on the flats especially the north end. Millions of bait fish and the Pelicans are taking full advantage. I am seeing them from as small as three-inches up to over six. So several hatches. "WHITE BASS" Early in the morning until the sun pops over the tree line or about 9am the white bass are feeding heavily on the [...]

The lake level is at 598.12. Normal summer pool is 599.7 or roughly a foot and a half low. Water temps today was 77 and gin clear. Not much has changed since last report. I am watching the Pelicans every morning. They are on or near bait fish. Shad are busting on flats until about mid morning up on the north end. "WHITE BASS' I am throwing my spoon/hair jig combo like I have been for over a month. Up on flats or on the edge. I motor along the edge watching my side imaging for clouds of bait. Plus [...]

The lake level is at 598.29. Normal summer pool is 599.77. So about a foot and a half low. Water temps are all over the place. 73 in the morning 79 in the afternoon due to our up and down weather. Some night been getting down to 49 degrees. Water color very clear everywhere except extreme north end that has a lot of carp and boat traffic stirring it up. Are we in fall transition I say not yet I am still catching my fish same spots last month or so and same methods of doing so. Here is what [...]

The lake level is 598.62 or roughly 16in. low. Water color is gin clear all over the lake but the extreme north end. The carp and baitfish have it all stirred up. Water temps are back to 83-85. Weather has been hot and that fires up the white bass. A strong south wind comes with it and that helps fishermen and bunching up the white bass. Extended forecast has it cooling off mid-week. I am still doing combo trips for at least another month. The white bass fishing has been very good and catching enough crappie on minnows as well. [...]

The lake is about 6in. low or 599.15. Thursday brought in a severe cold front and I saw water temps drop from almost 90 down to 75 in just 36 hours. It is bounced back to 80 as of August 2nd. Lake is gin clear about everywhere. What this has done is move my white bass and put crappie on wood. One door closes another opens. "CRAPPIE" With water temps dropping so quickly the last three days I have seen crappie fishing improve. We have been able to catch fish under ten-inches without any problems but now I am seeing [...]

The lake level is 599.97 or basically summer pool. Water temps are running from 81-85. The lake is pretty clear despite many pop up showers. The area from Bo-Woods boat ramp over to Coalshaft bridge and from Wilborn boat ramp down to the Point 6 flat has so many balls of shad you can't believe they are hungry. The south end of the lake is nothing like this. Only on the three flat is there shad activity like this. We also have been fighting a very bad algae bloom that just lingers on. Recent rains have helped break it up. [...]

The lake Level is 599.62 or .29 under summer pool. Water temps shot all the way up to 86 now have settled in around 82. It has been very hot which has moved the crappie to cubes and deep down trees. The whites are roaming channel banks busting on shad early in the morning. "CRAPPIE" I am fishing some flats early in the morning looking for the last of the shallow crappie mixed in with channel catfish. I am marking off several stumps then moving from one to the other casting a slip bobber and minnow at the area next [...]

Lake level is 600.7 feet above sea level. Normal summer pool is 599.7 so roughly a foot high. Water temps are running 75-77. The north end has a little stain but mid-lake down to the south end clear as can be. "Crappie" The crappie are slowly getting back to their normal summer patterns and the summer bite will get even better once the water temp. hits the 80 mark. This along with gin clear water will have the fish hiding in the nearly 3000 Shelbyville Cubes. For now I am seeing fish up on the north end using them but [...]

The lake level is 600.00. Summer pool is 599.7 so very close. The water temps are running 67-71. The lake is very clear about everywhere. "Crappie" We are concentrating on stumps off flats or Shelbyville Cubes mid-lake to south end. All with a slip bobber and a minnow. Better grab a bunch as we are going through about ten dozen a day. Depth on my slip bobber rig runs from 9-14ft. depending on the cover. I fish this way all summer simply because I have three in the boat most days and we all can fish off the side of [...]

Water levels are coming back up to 600.5 or roughly 1 1/2ft. Water temps have been everywhere from 62-74 the last few days. We need these 46 degree nights to stop. This makes the baitfish inactive and the rest follow. The white bass and walleye won't even bite until noon or better. If you have a few crappie spots left better guard them until the overnight temps stay above 60. "CRAPPIE" Believe it or not there are female crappie just bursting with eggs and males still coal black. For the most part the spawn is done and some crappie just [...]