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Courtesy of Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

Issued: 7/28/10
As of Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake's elevation at 1,120.31 feet MSL (Normal conservation pool - 1,120 MSL).

Bailey's Beaver Lake Guide Service said the water temperature is in the high 80s and has caused stripers to move back to the lower section but they are still feeding actively. They are in their big summer schools and most are being caught 30 to 60 feet deep. Night fishing is great right now. Use lights near Rocky Branch and Point 5 and fish shad, minnows or spoons to catch whites, hybrids, stripers, walleye, catfish and crappie. Bombers and Redfins fished on downriggers are also producing stripers at night. Troll baits about 1.5 to 2.5 miles per hour. The morning bite has been over by 8 a.m. and the night bite usually starts around 9 p.m. Stripers are being caught in Rocky Branch, Point 5, Point 6, Indian Creek and Lost Bridge. Live gizzard shad is always successful with stripers on Beaver Lake.

JT's Crappie Guide Service said bass have been biting best at night on dark, soft plastic worms or Texas-rigged lizards fished along gravel banks in the mid-lake area. During the day, small worms or Texas- or Carolina-rigged lizards are producing catches along steep rock banks or bluffs in the shade and along main lake points and humps. Crappie are biting excellent, early in the day, on small tube jigs or Shineee Hineees tipped with a minnow. Another method that has produced catches is floating a minnow under a slip cork along the timber about 10 to 20 feet deep. The best places to fish are along shaded bluff lines between the bluff and standing timber. Whites are scattered but some can be found schooling on flats in the evening. Any bait that resembles a shad should get hits when cast into the schooling fish. The best bait sizes are between 1.5 to 3 inches. Catfishing is great at night from the bank with liver, worms or stink bait. Bream are biting well on crickets fished 5 to 15 feet deep under the shade of docks or along bluff walls.

Southtown Sporting Goods (479-443-7148) said the water is clear and at normal level. Bream are biting well on crickets. Trolling crankbaits has boated crappie over the past few days. Bass are biting on jigs, plastics and deep diving crankbaits during the day. At night, plastics, spinnerbaits and top-water lures are producing catches. Catfishing is fair with cut shad and prepared bait.