The lake level is 551.17 and rising very slowly with no generation. It is raining now.The surface temperature is about 72 degrees on the main lake and cooler in the shallower creeks. You can see your lure down about 6-7 feet on the main lake. The new news is that the lake is starting to turn over and the crappie and bass are moving to the brush piles. There are still a few walleye and stripers very deep but they are moving north out of the deep water. We will see if there is a night bite for stripers in November. This does not always happen but depends on the shad an plankton. If they move or are blown to the bank in the evening there will be. The crappie bite is the best now with the bass next. Spoons and slip floats with minnows are best for crapppie and plastic worms for bass. The fish are not in any special pattern and everything is changing as it always does in October. There are lots of shad and not all of them hold fish. The old saying " find the bait fish and you find the striper is not true. It should be " when you find schools of shad learn how to tell if there are fish on them" if you do not, you will waste a lot of time fishing dry holes. Look for shad with broken schools and not just blobs. Also look for lines and slashing fish. Many times the stripers are under the shad but not always. It just takes time and a good locator. It is also hard to stay on them after you catch one. I like to spoon them but others like to drag live bait with several poles out. If you do this long enough you will catch some. You can stay on them easier vertical jigging a spoon. Bluegill fishing with jigs and nightcrawlers is also good. Look for shad part way back in the wind blown creeks in 45-ft. of water and the fish are 30-ft. down suspended. All species are together. Brush piles in 25-30 feet inside main lake points are all holding fish. Mostly bass, crappie and bluegill. Go to www.blackburnsresort.com and click on scuba Steve's blog for a daily report.