Norfork Lake Scuba Report for July 15,2016 By Scuba Steve From Blackburns Resort and Boat Rental

The diving conditions continue to improve and so does the spear fishing. The thermocline is at about 25-feet and you can see good to there. The mud line starts there and goes to about 30 -feet but is not nearly as bad as it was. They have stopped dropping the lake for gate repairs and it is at 552.81 and has been stable with one generator running intermittantly. The lake traffic has really slowed since the holiday and the mixing from the boats is settling out. The last two days I have been amazed how the visibility has improved. I was beginning to wonder if it was going to happen. There are a lot of fish on main lake points where they drop off in 30-32 feet of water. If there is brush and chunk rock there more the better. I am getting some giant crappie on brush there everyday along with walleye. For you pole fishermen bass are there too as are bluegill. I saw no white bass. People trolling deep diving crank baits are getting a lot of fish of all kinds. There are not a lot of crappie moving in to the brush yet but the ones there are big.