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🏷 Pressure 29.23" ↑  ·  UV 0.0
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🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting 84°F
  • Lake Taneycomo 🎯 Brown/Rainbow Trout 🏹 Provo rig with weighted drop-shot loop 18" up on 2-pound Vanish fluorocarbon (afternoon afternoon stretch)
  • Norfork Tailwater 🎯 Rainbow Trout 🏹 Mepps #0–1 spinner along banks and drop-offs below dam
Bull Shoals 84°F, generating daily; Taneycomo 50°F stable; Norfork Tailwater gin-clear at 205 CFS; White River moderate flows, good clarity.
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Fishing · Jul 18, 2026

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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Fishing · Jun 9, 2026

Trout On! Eight Buddies, Four Waters, Six Days

Eight buds. Six days of fishing some of the best waters in Arkansas and Missouri. Taneycomo, Bull Shoals, the White and Norfork Rivers.

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fishing · May 15, 2026

Crappie ON! in Diamond City

I've been fishing Bull Shoals a long time. I don't remember ever catching this many crappie in a stretch. Weekend report May 15–17: keepers stacked below the throwbacks, three sub-…

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Fishing · May 5, 2026

Two Rivers, Two Dams, Two Blobs

Bull Shoals and Norfork Dams both released water independently on May 4, 2026 within hours of each other. Two separate blobs of elevated water, moving south at the same time — docu…

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🎯 Conditions Today
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Bull Shoals Lake
Bass · Boating · Swimming
9.5/10 Excellent
  • Calm wind (1 mph)
  • Pressure rising
  • Water 84°F — good
  • Solunar: Excellent
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White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
9.5/10 Excellent
  • 759 CFS — light flow, wade with care
  • Cold tailwater — excellent trout temps
  • Clear skies
  • Solunar: Excellent
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Tomorrow 3 PM–4 PM 1.9u · 6,414 CFS
Tomorrow 4 PM–5 PM 2.8u · 9,115 CFS
Tomorrow 5 PM–6 PM 4.6u · 15,192 CFS
Tomorrow 6 PM–7 PM 6.1u · 20,256 CFS
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