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Bull Shoals Lake For the Army Corps of Engineers’ real-time outflow report from Bull Shoals Dam, visit the Corps’ Little Rock office website. (updated 6-25-2026) Fishing guide Del Colvin at Bull Shoals Lake (815-592-4302), delcolvinfishing.com, said Wednesday that Bull Shoals Lake’s level is still on the rise and has reached 665 feet msl with more “coming down the pipe,” he said. “Watch out for some debris.” Water temperature is around 80 degrees. The powerfishermen are up in the flooded brushes doing fine on the right day (wind/clouds/rain/stain) using buzzbaits, Whopper Plopper, spinnerbaits and Chatterbaits on shallow bushes on flats close to ledges and transition banks. There is stained water still in the backs of creeks. “Better get up early and beat the heat, as summer is starting to heat up. The topwater bite can be good covering water with a Zara Spook or popper-style lure. Once that fireball rises up and the topwater bite slows, try a small Tater Swimbait or Mayor 2.5 – both are working natural shad imitation colors. I’ve been using the big spoon! A Jewel Shad Spoon is hot right now if they are busting the surface. Or try your favorite minnow to shake around the shad. “If the conditions are post-frontal with flat water, high pressure, bluebirds, hot and sunny, just jump in. If you grind it out it will get tough. I will slow down, downsize and get off the bank and look at deep ledges and brushpiles and bomb-cast with lighter fluorocarbon line. You can try a drop-shot with a Robo, or finesse a Jewel Pee-Wee Jig in green pumpkin orange. Or a Bass Whacker is working in green pumpkin. Or also try a shaky head worm. “Fish are favoring summer areas, so start looking at long points, ledges and fish big red worms or craw baits in brushpiles, timber tops and on bluffs and bluff ends. Fish shallow stuff with deeper water close by. There are fish from the surface down 50 feet as they move deep and suspend in 30-40 feet, especially if there is shad around. Graph ti

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