Norfork Lake fishing and lake conditions by Scuba Steve from Blackburns Resort and Boat rental (click here for comments)

Tom Kelly is one good fisherman.Image title

Under the dock with these big boys.Image title

The lake level is 555.70 and has risen 3-inches in the last 24-hours. They quit generating yesterday afternoon and have not started up yet. Hope they do. They always quit when it rains to let the lake rise as much as it can. We received about 0.4 inches of rain last night and this morning and it is very cloudy now. The Easter Egg hunt is saturday at 2:Pm and the resort will be full of guests and much family and friends.  It gets bigger every year and some of the children that were very small when we started have their own now and they are helping with the hunt. It is to be in the 70's and sunny by gametime. Free pizza and hundreds of eggs. We have about 4-acres of flat green grass and a big playground for the hunt. Fishing was pretty good yesterday and bass were biting. I was using my old standby grub and minnow and working part way back in a creek behind brush piles. Lake surface temperature was 60 degrees and some fish have moved out a little deeper. The threadfin shad will spawn at a late 60's and early 70's surface temperature and it does not look like we will make that before full monn in May. You have to change bass fishing techinques when this happens. The overall spawn has slowed with the cool ambient temperature and lower water temperatures. I was finding surface water temperatures in the 70's but not now. This is typical for April. It is not as variable as March but almost. Tom Kelly is using a shakey head worm, Bink is using creature baits and I am using the grub and all are catching fish. There are lots of one and one half inch long bluegill minnows showing up near the bank and are drawing catfish to them at night.