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
82°F
🌬 2 mph ENE — gusts 2
⛅ Clear
🏷 Pressure 29.28" ↑ · UV 0.0
🌒 Waxing Crescent
🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting
84°F
- Norfork River Tailwater 🎯 Rainbow and Brown Trout 🏹 Mepps #0-1 spinner around Otter Creek access and deep holes below dam
- Bull Shoals Lake 🎯 Largemouth and Spotted Bass 🏹 1/2 oz white Chatterbait on main lake points and secondary structure
Bull Shoals 84°F and dropping to 662 msl with heavy generation; Norfork Tailwater gin-clear at 205 CFS; Taneycomo improving after June rains; Spring River 380 CFS, clearing nicely.
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Bull Shoals Dam
764 CFS
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🎣 Not Generating
Minimum flow — prime wading conditions below State Park
⏱ Today 3:00 PM–10:00 PM • ~21,900 CFS peak
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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
8.0/10
Excellent
- Calm wind (2 mph)
- Pressure rising
- Water 84°F — good
- Solunar: Slow
Moving Water
White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
8.0/10
Excellent
- 764 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
3.0u · 9,790 CFS
Today
4 PM–5 PM
5.0u · 16,542 CFS
Today
5 PM–6 PM
5.0u · 16,542 CFS
Today
6 PM–7 PM
6.6u · 21,944 CFS
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