Trimble Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 13): Headwater – 389.55 feet, Tailwater – 386.44 feet, Flow – 129,097 cubic feet per second

Ozark Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 12): Headwater – 371.56 feet, Tailwater – 351.89 feet

Dardanelle Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 10): Headwater – 337.44 feet, Tailwater – 301.70 feet

Ormond Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 9): Headwater – 284.42 feet, Tailwater – 282.05 feet, Flow – 130,530 cubic feet per second

Toad Suck Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 8): Headwater – 268.47 feet, Tailwater – 267.82 feet

Murray Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 7): Headwater – 247.86 feet, Tailwater – 238.86 feet, Flow – 150,394 cubic feet per second

Terry Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 6): Headwater – 230.41 feet, Tailwater – 226.44 feet, Flow – 162,269 cubic feet per second

Sanders Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 4): Headwater – 194.86 feet, Tailwater – 193.68 feet

Hardin Lock and Dam (Lock and Dam 3): Headwater – 183.54 feet, Tailwater – 182.13 feet

Mills Dam (Dam 2): Headwater – 161.87 feet, Tailwater – 143.50 feet, Flow – 142,638 cubic feet per second

White River Levels: According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as of Wednesday the White River stages are:

6.7 feet at Calico Rock (flood stage – 19 feet) 
6.2 feet at Batesville (flood stage – 15 feet)
2.4 feet at Newport (flood stage – 26 feet)
15.1 feet at Augusta (flood stage – 26 feet)
3.6 feet at Georgetown (flood stage – 21 feet)
12.7 feet at Clarendon (flood stage – 26 feet)

CENTRAL ARKANSAS

Little Red River: Lindsey's Resort (501-302-3139) said the water is clear and low. The fishing is good on wax worms with marshmallows or chartreuse and yellow Power Bait. Marabou jigs in grey/white or olive and 2-inch rainbow or gold Rapalas also have been producing. Fly-anglers are having luck with red/black or green/tan midges and sow bugs.

Jed Hollan at the Little Red Fly Shop said the Greers Ferry Power House continues to release water on a dependable schedule. Generation has been occurring at 3 p.m. every afternoon for one to four hours. Since the aquatic insect hatches have remained consistent, blue-winged olives (BWO), pale morning duns (PMD), sulphurs and midges continue working. Dry flies that are catching fish, mostly during the spinner fall, include Adams (size 18), BWO dun patterns such as CDC Baetis dun (sizes18-20), CDC PMD dun (size 18), midge patterns (sizes 20-22 in cream or black) and Sulphur (orange or yellow size 18). Sub-surface attractors are Pheasant Tail (size 16), Prince (size 16), Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear (sizes 14-16), Copper John (chartreuse or red size 16), Zebra Midge (red or black sizes 16-22), Sow bug (tan or light gray sizes 14-16), Partridge & Orange, Chuck's Emerger or Red Butt soft-hackle emergers (sizes 16-18) and Woolly Buggers in olive or brown (sizes 10-12). One of the most effective techniques for catching trout with a fly rod can be using a dropper. A good combination is a sow bug (size 16) under an indicator, then tie some tippet to the bend of the sow bug fly. Tie on a small midge pattern (Zebra size 20) to the bottom end of the tippet. Leave the barb on the upper fly in an effort to keep the dropper tippet from slipping off during a fish fight. Periodically tug on the line or lift the rod tip so that the midge on the bottom appears to be emerging. Expect the trout to strike as the midge rises. Do not use this rig in a special regulations area since single hooking points, only, are permitted.

Greers Ferry: As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 460.28 feet MSL.

Shiloh Marina (501-825-6237) said the water is clear and at normal level. Whites and hybrids are starting to come up.

Harris Brake Lake: Coffee Creek Landing (501-889-2745) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well in 4 feet of water on crickets and minnows. Crappie fishing is poor. Bass fishing is fair on crankbaits. Catfishing is fair, some are biting on trotlines.

Beaverfork Lake: The City of Conway Parks and Recreation Department said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream and crappie fishing is fair on small jigs. Bass are biting well on artificial baits. Catfish are biting well on chicken liver.

Lake Overcup: Lakeview Landing (501-354-1470) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well on redworms and crickets. Crappie are biting in deeper water on minnows. Bass fishing is fair. Catfish are biting well on minnows and dog food.

Overcup Landing (501-354-9007) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream fishing is excellent and they are spawning on the banks. Crappie are biting well in deep water on small minnows and jigs. Bass fishing is fair on spinnerbaits and buzzbaits around docks and other structures. Catfishing is slow, with some being caught on nightcrawlers and small bream.

Brewer Lake: Overcup Landing (501-354-9007) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well on redworms and crickets. Crappie fishing is slow; some are being caught on small minnows and tube jigs around brush piles. Bass fishing is slow, with some hitting on plastic worms and flukes. Catfish are biting well on live bream.

Little Maumelle River: River Valley Bait (501-868-3279) said the water is muddy and low. All species are poor..

Lake Maumelle: No report.

Sunset Lake: Turbyfill’s Outdoor Sports (501-315-3061) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well on crickets. Crappie fishing is slow. Bass fishing is fair, with some being caught on red shad-colored plastic worms. Catfish are biting well on goldfish.

Saline River Access in Benton: Turbyfill’s Outdoor Sports (501-315-3061) said the water clarity is fair. Bream are biting well on crickets. Crappie fishing is slow. Bass fishing is fair, with a few being caught with top-water lures. Catfishing is slow.

Lake Valencia in Maumelle: Hatchet Jack’s Sport Shop said the water is clear and at normal level. Catfishing is excellent on chicken liver and nightcrawlers.

Pickthorne Lake: Hatchet Jack’s Sport Shop said bream are biting well on crickets. Catfish are biting well on nightcrawlers and liver.

Burns Park: Hatchet Jack’s Sport Shop said bream are biting well. Catfishing is fair on minnows and nightcrawlers.

Murray Lock and Dam: Hatchet Jack’s Sport Shop said bream fishing is fair.

Big Maumelle Creek: Hatchet Jack’s Sport Shop said all species are poor.

Little Maumelle Creek: Hatchet Jack’s Sport Shop said bass fishing is excellent on spinnerbaits and redworms.

Palarm Creek: Hatchet Jack’s Sport Shop said catfish are biting well on cut shad and nightcrawlers.

Terry Lock and Dam: McSwain Sports Center (501-945-2471) said the water is high and muddy, with strong currents.

Clear Lake: McSwain Sports Center (501-945-2471) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well in 3 to 4 feet of water on worms and crickets. Crappie fishing is poor. Bass fishing is excellent on black spinnerbaits. Catfishing is going well at night on nightcrawlers.

NORTH ARKANSAS

Anglers White River Resort (870-585-2226) said the water is clear and low. Fishing is excellent on brightly colored Power Bait, glow worms, spinners and artificial baits. Fly-fishing is also working well.

Sportsman’s White River Resort (870-453-2424) said the water is clear and at normal level, with around two generators running. Fishing has been excellent on yellow Power Bait and rainbow Rapalas.

Bull Shoals Lake: As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 655.11 feet MSL.

Bull Shoals Lake Boat Dock (870-445-4424) said bass still have a good top-water bite first thing in the morning. First light is an excellent time for early risers or late niters. Main-lake points, bluff ends, timber bluffs and the tops of brush piles are the best for top-water action. Zara Spooks, Zoom Flukes or any other shad-simulating topwater will work. When the top-water bite fades, it is time to go deep. Pinch a size 3 to 5 split shot on your line about 2 feet from a size 4 hook baited with a nightcrawler. Slowly work the bait over any structure you find between 25 and 35 feet of water. For artificial baits, try a Texas-rigged strawberry-colored worm with silver or gold flake, tube bait, or Carolina or mojo rigs with a 4-inch worm or centipede. Night fishing for bass has been fair on a jig-and-pig combos in a dark colors. Some walleye have been coming in to the dock during daylight hours; some techniques that have been working are split shotting or slow-trolling a nightcrawler around 30 feet deep, flat line trolling with deep-diving crankbaits or stick baits and downrigging. Some crappie are being caught around the brush piles and timber on the bluffs with small minnows, tiny tubes and small jigs. Try deeper brush piles with slip bobbers. White bass are being caught at night under the lights on minnows in 25 to 40 feet of water. The catfish have turned on with the water temperature rising. Trotlines and jug lines at night are producing good stringers.

Bull Shoals Tailwater: McLellan’s Fly Shop said water releases have been pretty sporadic from Bull Shoals Dam. The terrestrial dry-fly fishing has really picked up over the last couple of weeks, with various ant, beetle and hopper patterns producing several hook-ups lately. While fishing terrestrials may not produce as many hook-ups as nymph fishing, the smashing strikes that patterns like the Club Sandwich, Turk’s Tarantula or Chaos Hopper can produce are more than enough to make up for it. During higher flows, this is also a great time to fish large streamers for aggressive brown trout. Fishing from a boat using sinking lines, cast to fishy-looking structure as you drift downstream and use an erratic retrieve to swim your fly across the current.

Lake Norfork: As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 552.55 feet MSL.

Cranfield Junction Bait and Tackle (870-492-5141) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well on redworms and crickets. Bass are biting well after dark on jigs or plastic worms. Stripers are biting well in 50-60 feet of water on spoons. Walleye are picking up around the points and humps on crawler harnesses with nightcrawlers.

Norfork Tailwater: Gene’s Trout Dock (870-499-5381) said the water has a green tint. Water has been low in the morning and coming up during the day. Fly-anglers have had luck on zebra midges, olive or black woolly buggers and sow bugs. Bait fishing is also working well with nightcrawlers, corn and Power Bait. Gold Colorado spoons work well on sunny days and silver on cloudy days, working the banks. Several large rainbows and cutthroat have been caught.

McLellan’s Fly Shop said over the past week, water releases have been fairly light, with one to two units usually coming online sometime during mid- to late afternoon. The terrestrial dry-fly fishing has really picked up over the last couple of weeks, with various ant, beetle and hopper patterns producing several hook-ups lately.

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

Southtown Sporting Goods (479-443-7148) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well on worms and crickets. Crappie fishing is slow. Some are biting under the lights at night on minnows or live shad. The black bass are biting early on top-water lures and at night on large dark worms, spinnerbaits or crankbaits. White bass are schooling and being caught on Castmaster spoons or Roostertails.

Wiegmann’s Guide Service (479-756-5279) said the water is very clear in the dam area and mid-lake area. War Eagle is lightly stained and White River is slightly colored. Anglers have been avoiding the heat and recreational traffic by fishing mainly at night for bass. The three most popular baits for anglers at night have been single-bladed Colorado blade/dark-skirted spinnerbaits, plastic worms, and top-water baits like a buzzbait or Jitterbug. Key areas have been bluff ends and deep brush piles. White bass continue to school in the mid-lake around Horseshoe Bend. Anglers fishing for stripers continue to fish from the Rocky Branch area towards the dam area with top-water bites early but this last for only a very short period. Live bait fished straight down in the cluster of underwater trees or underwater structure continues to be productive.

Beaver Tailwater: McLellan’s Fly Shop said generation has been holding off until mid-afternoon on most days, providing plenty of wading opportunities during the morning hours. The terrestrial dry-fly fishing has really picked up over the last couple of weeks, with various ant, beetle and hopper patterns producing several hook-ups.

Lake Fayetteville: Lake Fayetteville Boat Dock (479-444-3476) said all species are slow.

NORTHEAST ARKANSAS

Lake Frierson: Lake Frierson State Park said the water is muddy and all species are slow.

Eleven-Point River: Woody’s Canoe Rental and Campground (870-892-9732) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bass are biting well on lures. Catfish are biting well on worms. A few walleye have been caught.

SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS

SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

Millwood Lake Guide Service said are in summer transition. Bass are roaming the edges of vegetation. Black/blue or firetiger-colored buzzbaits, top-water frogs, Bass Assassin Shads and Floating Rat-L-Traps in ¾- to 1-oz. sizes, are catching good bass from the river. 10-12-inch worms in blue fleck, purple, or black are working well in the muddy water along the river. Largemouth continue to respond to crankbaits like the Fat Free Shad in citrus shad colors. The best jig color over the last couple weeks remains Texas Craw with chartreuse in it and a sour grape, or black plastic chunk. Southern Pro Fattbutt Tubes with rattles, in pumpkinseed/chartreuse tail, purple smoke w/ chartreuse tail, or black neon colors, using heavy sinkers for a fast fall and a reaction bite are working around stumps in vegetation, cypress tree bases, in 6-9 feet of water at mouths of creeks where flooded bushes are half submerged. White Bass fishing is poor with the current increase. The crappie bite has all but shut off, due to the muddy water and current in the river. Channel Cats are excellent on trotlines 6 to 7 feet deep, on outside river bends where current is flowing out of the river's normal banks and in back of the oxbows where current is rising. Longnose or Spotted Gar remain shallow, and are cruising in the shallow flats and back of creeks, making very good opportunities additionally, for bow fishermen.

Lake Columbia: Steve's Marine (870-234-2222) said the water clarity is fair and the water is high. Bream are biting well on crickets. Crappie fishing is fair. Bass are biting well on junebug or red shad-colored soft-plastics. Catfish are biting well on trotlines with goldfish and minnows.

Lake Erling: Steve's Marine (870-234-2222) said the water is high and has fair clarity. Bream are biting well on crickets. Bass are biting well on lizards and red shad-colored worms. Catfish are biting well on trotlines with minnows.

Lake Greeson: As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 546.66 feet MSL. 

Lakeside Grocery, Motel and Bait (870-398-5304) said the water is dingy and dropping. All species are poor. Some bass are biting top-water lures on the points. A few catfish are biting in 8 to 20 feet of water on jugs with live bait. 

DeGray Lake: As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 405.71 feet MSL.

WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS

Blue Mountain Lake: As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 386.00 feet MSL.

CNC’s End of the Line (479-947-2398) said the water is a little murky and at normal level. A few bream are being caught on worms. Crappie fishing is good on minnows and jigs. A few bass have been caught on lures. Catfish are biting well on large nightcrawlers and liver.

Ozark Pool: Lakeside Food Mart (479-667-5155) aid the water is muddy and high. Bream are biting on worms and crickets. A few bass have been caught in the creeks on spinnerbaits and jigs.

Lake Ouachita: As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 574.36 feet MSL.

Mountain Harbor Marina said largemouth bass still are slow and these fish can be caught with U-tail worms, swim baits and grass jigs. Jighead finesse worms and Texas-rigged Ole Monsters are also worth trying this time of year. Black spinnerbaits will be worth a try at night. Walleye are good and being caught on spoons and crankbaits near creek channels and main-lake points fished around brush piles. Stripers are slow to fair on live bait; brood minnows and gizzard shad are the baits of choice. The eastern end of the lake seems to be the best area for these fish. Bream are still very good on crickets and worms in 6 to 20 feet of water. Crappie are slow and being caught over grass and brush in deeper water. Try large moss flats and brush in water 20 to 35 feet deep. Minnows or crappie grubs are still working best. Arkansas shad, Tennessee shad and white are still the best colors for artificial baits. Catfish are still good with reports of these fish being caught with live bait and stinkbait in water 10 to 20 feet deep on jugs and trotlines.

Larry Hurley from Poorman’s Guide Service said bass fishing is good and so much fun this week. Big bass are starting to show up and are hitting 10-inch worms and jigs off the deep end of the grass.

Lake Hamilton: Local anglers report that fishing is tough during the day with the boat traffic and heat. Some bass are schooling on top early in the morning, but they could show up anywhere near the main channel. Boat docks are producing more consistent numbers of fish. In the mornings, a buzzing toad and Chug Bug are working. Once the sun is up, focus on brush piles in 12 to 20 feet of water with a 10-inch worm. It may take a while to locate a brush pile with fish willing to bite.

Lake Catherine: The Crazy Yankee Grill and Marina (501-262-2272) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bass are biting well along the shorelines in the mornings and evenings on top-water lures. Stripers and Walleye are biting well in 12 to 15 feet of water, on shad-colored artificial baits.

Shane Goodner, owner of Catch’em All Guide Service, reports that despite very hot temperatures, the rainbow trout bite remains very consistent. The water temperature is holding fast at 58 degrees - thanks to Entergy generating for 12-hour periods. The shad migration is in full swing with huge schools of threadfin shad moving everywhere in the tailrace area. Bank fishermen are catching limits of trout by sticking with the nightcrawler and redworm presentation floated under a bobber. Corn and wax worms are also very effective as the trout search for forage other than shad to feed on. Boaters trolling the channels are catching larger trout by using baits that imitate crawfish instead of shad. Most of the larger fish are being caught below the bridge in deeper water, most of which is 10 to 12 feet. Overall, the summer bite is much slower than earlier in the spring but trout size is very good with the majority of the fish measuring 15 inches or more. Striper activity is on the rise as the temperatures soar into the 90s. Fish over 30 pounds have been spotted below the dam as these predators chase the trout and shad schools. A good mix of hybrid bass are mixed in with the feeding striped bass. Top-water activity occurs in the evening while the turbines are running full blast. Magnum Zara and Super Spooks in rainbow trout colors will draw heart-stopping strikes from these feeding giants.

Lake Hinkle: Bill's Bait Shop (479-637-4719) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are in 10 feet of water and biting on crickets. A few crappie have been caught on minnows and jigs. Bass fishing is poor. Catfishing is good on trotlines with perch or goldfish.

Lake Atkins: Lucky Landing (479-641-7615) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well on worms and crickets. Crappie fishing is slow, with some being caught on jigs. A few bass have been caught on spinnerbaits or plastic worms. Catfish are biting well on just about anything thrown at them.

SOUTH-CENTRAL ARKANSAS

EAST ARKANSAS

River City Sporting Goods (870-534-8303) said there is no report due to high water.

White River: Triangle Sports (870-793-7122) said the water is clear and low. Bream and bass fishing are fair. Walleye fishing is poor. All fishing has been spotty.

Maddox Bay: Maddox Bay Landing (870-462-8317) said the water clarity is good and at normal level. Bream are biting well on crickets. Crappie fishing is fair on minnows. Bass fishing is good. Catfishing is fair on crickets.

Bear Creek Lake: Arkansas Outdoors (870-295-4240) said the water is cloudy and at 90 degrees. All species are poor