The lake level is 554.12 and is rising just a bit with one generator running about 1/2 the time. We did receive about 1-1/2 inches of rain last night but most of it sunk in and the creeks did not run. They are holding the White River at Newport at 16 feet to keep the lakes up as high as they can going into the spring rains. The surface water temperature is between 52 and 53 degrees depending on when you check it. The water is stained and you can see your lure down about 3-feet. Bass fishing is far the best now. They are really biting well now in brush about 25-30 feet of water near the bottom. I am using the 3/8 ounce Bink's spoon, white with a black back and red eye. Everyone here is catching a lot of fish. The new Game and Fish brush piles are really working and attracting many fish. Try them in Float Creek. We have a map of them on our game room wall along with the location of Blackburns piles. This is about as good as it gets and is especially good at this end of the lake. Several fish in the 3-4 lb. range are coming in every day. Walleye are showing up with them but you catch about four before you catch a keeper. A few crappie are with them but not as many as two weeks ago. I did catch some very large ones yesterday though but not as many. The red meat trollers are still hit and miss with mostly miss. They fish for two days and catch nothing and then find a feeding school, catch a bunch and then write a report. I wish they would quit killing all of those small 7-10 pund stripers. Pictures of them filling a dock floor is not impressive. Striper fishing will suffer for it if they do not quit.
