The Ozarks Don't Take Summer Off
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
2:00 PM CDT
On the Lake
92°F
🌬 3 mph NW — gusts 6
⛅ Overcast
🏷 Pressure 29.24" → · UV 5.3
🌔 Waxing Gibbous
🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting
84°F
- Bull Shoals Lake 🎯 Trout 🏹 1/4 oz silver Mepps #1 spinner on main lake points
- Lake Taneycomo 🎯 Brown Trout 🏹 Provo rig with fluorocarbon tippet in deep tailwater runs
Bull Shoals 84°F and rising; Taneycomo 50°F ideal; Norfork River moderate flows and clear; summer thermocline developing within days.
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Bull Shoals Dam
795 CFS
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🎣 Not Generating
Minimum flow — prime wading conditions below State Park
⏱ Today 5:00 PM–7:00 PM • ~6,800 CFS peak
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Feeding Windows Today
Waxing Gibbous
Major
9:41 PM
2 hrs
Major
9:41 AM
2 hrs
Minor
5:27 PM
1 hr
Minor
1:56 AM
1 hr
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KY3 Weather • Sugarloaf Marina area
🎯 Conditions Today
🌊 Still Water
Bull Shoals Lake
Bass · Boating · Swimming
8.5/10
Excellent
- Calm wind (3 mph)
- Pressure steady
- Water 84°F — good
- Solunar: Average
Moving Water
White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
8.0/10
Excellent
- 795 CFS — light flow, wade with care
- Cold tailwater — excellent trout temps
- Overcast — good low-light fishing
- Solunar: Average
🚣 Float Windows — Bull Shoals Dam
Today
5 PM–6 PM
2.0u · 6,752 CFS
Today
6 PM–7 PM
2.0u · 6,752 CFS
Tomorrow
3 PM–4 PM
2.9u · 9,453 CFS
Tomorrow
4 PM–5 PM
4.1u · 13,504 CFS
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