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Live conditions, fishing reports & lake life — Bull Shoals Lake • Sugarloaf Marina • Diamond City, AR
🌊 Right Now on Bull Shoals Lake
1:00 PM CDT
On the Lake
89°F
🌬 10 mph N — gusts 15
⛅ Clear
🏷 Pressure 29.08" → · UV 7.25
🌖 Waning Gibbous
🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting
84°F
- Bull Shoals Lake 🎯 Largemouth and spotted bass 🏹 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait on main lake points during low-generation morning windows
- White River (Calico Rock) 🎯 Rainbow and brown trout 🏹 Silver inline spinner, 1/4 oz, drifted through mid-channel and behind boulders
Bull Shoals 84°F, heavy generation; tailwaters cooling mid-60s, gin-clear to poor clarity depending on recent rain; lake levels stable near power pool.
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Bull Shoals Dam
760 CFS
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🎣 Not Generating
Minimum flow — prime wading conditions below State Park
⏱ Today 3:00 PM–11:00 PM • ~20,300 CFS peak
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Feeding Windows Today
Waning Gibbous
Major
4:18 AM
2 hrs
Major
4:18 PM
2 hrs
Minor
10:22 PM
1 hr
Minor
10:15 AM
1 hr
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KY3 Weather • Sugarloaf Marina area
🎯 Conditions Today
🌊 Still Water
Bull Shoals Lake
Bass · Boating · Swimming
7.5/10
Good
- Light breeze (10 mph)
- Pressure steady
- Water 84°F — good
- Solunar: Slow
Moving Water
White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
8.0/10
Excellent
- 760 CFS — light flow, wade with care
- Cold tailwater — excellent trout temps
- Clear skies
- Solunar: Slow
🚣 Float Windows — Bull Shoals Dam
Today
3 PM–4 PM
2.0u · 6,752 CFS
Today
4 PM–5 PM
4.1u · 13,504 CFS
Today
5 PM–6 PM
6.1u · 20,256 CFS
Today
6 PM–7 PM
6.1u · 20,256 CFS
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