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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Live conditions, fishing reports & lake life — Bull Shoals Lake • Sugarloaf Marina • Diamond City, AR
🌊 Right Now on Bull Shoals Lake
3:00 AM CDT
On the Lake
80°F
🌬 1 mph S — gusts 2
⛅ Clear
🏷 Pressure 29.21" → · UV 0.0
🌑 New Moon
🌡 Lake surface 84°F
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What's Biting
84°F
- Norfork River tailwater 🎯 Trout 🏹 Mepps #0 spinner around Otter Creek in seam zones
- Lake Taneycomo 🎯 Trout 🏹 Small midge pattern or live nymph drift during consistent afternoon generation
Bull Shoals 84°F and high-generation; Norfork tailwater 205 CFS gin-clear and cold; Taneycomo 53°F with consistent generation; Spring River above-average flow post-rain.
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Bull Shoals Dam
741 CFS
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🎣 Not Generating
Minimum flow — prime wading conditions below State Park
⏱ Today 2:00 PM–10:00 PM • ~19,200 CFS peak
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🎯 Conditions Today
🌊 Still Water
Bull Shoals Lake
Bass · Boating · Swimming
8.0/10
Excellent
- Calm wind (1 mph)
- Pressure steady
- Water 84°F — good
- Solunar: Slow
Moving Water
White River Tailwater
Trout · Floating · Wading
8.0/10
Excellent
- 741 CFS — light flow, wade with care
- Cold tailwater — excellent trout temps
- Clear skies
- Solunar: Slow
🚣 Float Windows — Bull Shoals Dam
Today
2 PM–3 PM
1.1u · 3,714 CFS
Today
3 PM–4 PM
1.5u · 5,064 CFS
Today
4 PM–5 PM
2.5u · 8,102 CFS
Today
5 PM–6 PM
4.2u · 13,841 CFS
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