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77°F
🌬 2 mph E — gusts 2
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🏷 Pressure 29.35"  ·  UV 0.0
🌓 First Quarter
🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting 84°F
  • Norfork River 🎯 Rainbow trout 🏹 Small Mepps #0 spinner below dam and upper tailwater at Otter Creek
  • Lake Taneycomo 🎯 Brown trout 🏹 Size 18–20 midge on fly rod during consistent 7 a.m.–afternoon generation minimum flow
Bull Shoals 84°F and climbing to full pool; Norfork tailwater gin-clear at 205 CFS; Taneycomo 53°F with stable generation and oxygen injection ongoing.
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747 CFS
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Minimum flow — prime wading conditions below State Park
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Razorbacks · Sep 14, 2026

What Is Actually Wrong With Arkansas Football

Two different athletic directors, two different eras, same mistake. Part 1 of a two-part series: a fact-based look at what's actually broken in Arkansas football, straight from boa…

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Lake Life · Sep 10, 2026

First Solo Night Aboard Create.Buzz

Two days shy of 65, I took Create.Buzz out to a cove on Bull Shoals and tied up alone for the first time. Burgers on the grill, a sky full of satellites, a late moon over the hill …

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Faith Builder · Jul 18, 2026

The Night the Sky Answered Back

Floating off the back of the houseboat under a moonless, new-moon sky, I asked the Big Dipper a question out loud — and a meteor flashed dead-center in it the same instant. I'm fil…

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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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📷 Bull Shoals Lake Live Cam KY3 Weather • Sugarloaf Marina area
🎯 Conditions Today
🌊 Still Water
Bull Shoals Lake
Bass · Boating · Swimming
9.0/10 Excellent
  • Calm wind (2 mph)
  • Pressure steady
  • Water 84°F — good
  • Solunar: Good
🋻 Moving Water
White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
9.0/10 Excellent
  • 747 CFS — light flow, wade with care
  • Cold tailwater — excellent trout temps
  • Clear skies
  • Solunar: Good
🚣 Float Windows — Bull Shoals Dam
Today 12 PM–1 PM 1.4u · 4,726 CFS
Today 2 PM–3 PM 1.7u · 5,739 CFS
Today 3 PM–4 PM 3.8u · 12,491 CFS
Today 4 PM–5 PM 5.8u · 19,243 CFS
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