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Bass on Bull Shoals Lake Saturday. 70 rainbows on the White River Monday. The fish here don't read the calendar.
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Live conditions, fishing reports & lake life — Bull Shoals Lake • Sugarloaf Marina • Diamond City, AR
🌊 Right Now on Bull Shoals Lake
7:00 PM CDT
On the Lake
96°F
🌬 5 mph SSW — gusts 10
⛅ Clear
🏷 Pressure 29.14" ↓ · UV 0.05
🌒 Waxing Crescent
🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting
84°F
- Norfork River 🎯 Trout 🏹 Mepps #1 spinner, upper tailwater wade zones
- Lake Taneycomo 🎯 Trout 🏹 Drift live bait or fly on bottom, Branson Landing area
Bull Shoals warm (84°F) with heavy generation and dropping levels; Norfork tailwater gin-clear and light; White River and Taneycomo responding to recent rain; Spring River clearing and normalizing.
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Bull Shoals Dam
21,774 CFS
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🏃 Heavy Generation (5-7 units)
High water — hazardous; stay off banks and gravel bars in flood zones
▶ Generating now — ends 10:00 PM • ~21,900 CFS
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Feeding Windows Today
Waxing Crescent
Major
4:23 PM
2 hrs
Major
4:23 AM
2 hrs
Minor
10:45 AM
1 hr
Minor
10:02 PM
1 hr
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KY3 Weather • Sugarloaf Marina area
🎯 Conditions Today
🌊 Still Water
Bull Shoals Lake
Bass · Boating · Swimming
7.0/10
Good
- Calm wind (5 mph)
- Pressure falling — bass may go deep
- Water 84°F — good
- Solunar: Slow
Moving Water
White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
4.5/10
Fair
- 21,774 CFS — high water, use extreme caution
- Cold tailwater — excellent trout temps
- Clear skies
- Solunar: Slow
🚣 Float Windows — Bull Shoals Dam
Today
7 PM–10 PM
6.6u · 21,944 CFS
Tomorrow
9 AM–10 AM
1.4u · 4,726 CFS
Tomorrow
10 AM–11 AM
1.2u · 4,051 CFS
Tomorrow
11 AM–12 PM
1.0u · 3,376 CFS
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