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
1:00 AM CDT
On the Lake
80°F
🌬 4 mph ESE — gusts 7
⛅ Clear
🏷 Pressure 29.22" → · UV 0.0
🌒 Waxing Crescent
🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting
84°F
- White River (Calico Rock area) 🎯 Rainbow and brown trout 🏹 Silver inline spinner, drifted through deeper slots
- Norfork Tailwater (below dam, Otter Creek access) 🎯 Rainbow and brown trout 🏹 #0 Mepps spinner or 1/16 oz Blue Fox spoon, behind structure in deeper slots
Bull Shoals 84°F, heavy generation; White River and Norfork tailwaters gin-clear to slightly stained, stable low flows; Taneycomo gin-clear mornings before afternoon generation ramps.
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Bull Shoals Dam
740 CFS
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🎣 Not Generating
Minimum flow — prime wading conditions below State Park
⏱ Today 1:00 PM–11:00 PM • ~22,600 CFS peak
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Feeding Windows Today
Waxing Crescent
Major
3:38 PM
2 hrs
Major
3:38 AM
2 hrs
Minor
9:40 AM
1 hr
Minor
9:36 PM
1 hr
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KY3 Weather • Sugarloaf Marina area
🎯 Conditions Today
🌊 Still Water
Bull Shoals Lake
Bass · Boating · Swimming
8.0/10
Excellent
- Calm wind (4 mph)
- Pressure steady
- Water 84°F — good
- Solunar: Slow
Moving Water
White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
8.0/10
Excellent
- 740 CFS — light flow, wade with care
- Cold tailwater — excellent trout temps
- Clear skies
- Solunar: Slow
🚣 Float Windows — Bull Shoals Dam
Today
1 PM–2 PM
2.0u · 6,752 CFS
Today
2 PM–3 PM
4.1u · 13,504 CFS
Today
3 PM–4 PM
6.1u · 20,256 CFS
Today
4 PM–5 PM
6.9u · 22,619 CFS
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