HOT SPOTS
LAKE CONWAY Catfishing is excellent on limbs and trotlines using slicks or shad. Bream are good are biting about 10 feet off the bank and about 5 feet below the surface. Anglers are using worms and crickets. Bass have rated fair early in the morning on plastic worms or topwater lures.
LAKE MAUMELLE Black bass are excellent. They are biting on wacky rig worms and spinnerbaits both early in the morning and late in the day in 3-10 feet of water. Kentucky bass are excellent and are being caught on crankbaits and jigs in 4-9 feet of water. White bass fishing is also excellent.
LAKE WILLASTEIN Catfishing is excellent. Use chicken liver, chicken hearts, nightcrawlers or hot dogs.
BULL SHOALS TAILWATER The rainbow bite remains good to very good; browns are skittish but will still snatch at a sculpin or minnow if only out of anger at being harassed while the spawn is on. (Use extreme caution around the spawning beds; don’t disturb them by walking or wading through them, or with motor props or jet propulsion.) Best lure this week is Rebel’s Teeny Crawfish, followed by the No. 9 CountDown in brown trout or silver/black.