LAKE RUSSELL IS FULL & 77 DEGREES

Bass fishing is fair and the water will be cooling down soon moving the bait schools shallow. Stay down lake where the waters are a little warmer in the backs of the creeks. Use small finesse worms or a trick worm as well as the jigs and the dark greens are best. Keep a pearl Super Fluke ready all day for any schooling action. The bass will move shallow on a warmer afternoon and small crank baits on points and secondary points mid lake are good areas. Brush piles on points in 10 feet of water will be holding bass and worms and jigs will be fair. Work all lures slowly and use a Gilraker red and black worm in the brush using a Texas rig with Tungsten weight and use the smallest weight you can still feel. Tungsten and a glass or metal bead creates a lot extra sound and draws fish to look at the lures. Crank baits in the Shad Rap in a #7 will be fair in creeks on the northwest side of the lake. Ask Ken for a sample of the BASS FISHING LAKE RUSSELL book.