WATER CONDITIONS
The water elevation on June 11^th was 1012.6-feet, which is what it was last Wednesday. The water level is predicted to remain steady through Friday, June 13^th. The inflow is 1,580 cfs.
The lake is clear, with visibilities of 15- to 20-feet on the lower end. The head of some creeks may have visibilities of less than 5-feet.
Surface temperature readings show a significant increase due to low inflow and longer, sunny days. Most of the lake has a surface temperature of 83 degrees on the main channels; coves can be a couple of degrees warmer, although a reading in Lost Creek showed 81 degrees.
Moon phase: Waxing gibbous. The full moon will be Friday, June 13. Moonrise on Friday will occur at 9:27 p.m.
To view photos and Google maps of all access areas on the reservoir, go to http://www.tnfish.org/ReservoirLakeM...eMaps_TWRA.htm or http://tinyurl.com/chm2ts9.
For the Norris lake elevation, inflow rates, and generation times, go to http://www.tva.gov/lakes/noh_r.htm.
There is a new, statewide hook regulation in effect. Read it here: http://www.eregulations.com/tennesse...s-regulations/

SUMMARY
Shellcracker catches increased in coves, as did bluegill catches on the bottom in shallow flats which are near drop offs and narrow creek channels. On some afternoons, a period of topwater action for largemouth and spotted bass was good for an hour or two. Other than topwater action, the average depth of most bass catches has been 15 to 20-feet if on the channels; 10-feet in the coves. Plastic worms and lizards have accounted for some good largemouth catches in the coves where the shoreline has a shallow slope and cover is nearby. Pig’n jigs, or rubber-skirted jigs are still working on the steeper, rocky shorelines.
Early morning and late afternoon hours have been best for those fishing during daylight hours. Some walleye are being caught at night on snagged shad or alewife, and during the day by trolling deep running plugs near the bottom at 25-feet.
Smallmouth anglers: the summer smallmouth length and creel regulation is now in effect. See the smallmouth section, below, for details.

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SPECIES DETAILS

BLUEGILL/REDEAR
Bluegill: Good. Shellcracker: Good.
Shellcracker catches improved, the average depth being 10-feet, in coves on wax worms, nightcrawlers, red worms, and small tuffy minnows. Many large bluegill have moved into the flats at 5 to 10-feet and are being caught on crickets dragged across the bottom. No float. Popping bugs are always good for bluegill on the shaded, steep, rocky shorelines before 10 a.m.. Once the sun is up, the larger ones drop into deeper water and into available cover and shade.

CRAPPIE
Fair, in brushy coves in the creeks and coves, and on main channel brush.
Night fishing under lights has been best, on main channel brush or deep brush in the coves.
10- to 20-feet deep.
Clear water has limited the best catches to nighttime, under lights, and the early morning hours.
Plastic grubs in blue ice, green, pearl, or yellow, as well as tuffy minnows. Popeye hair jigs, 1-inch tube jigs, or grubs tipped with minnows along the bottom, or fish trout magnets, popeye flies, and small tube jigs tight to brush early in the morning. Night fishermen are catching them on tuffy minnows beneath lights on main channel, deep brush from Point 29 and above.
Good standard lures: Tuffy minnows, small doll flies, mini tube jigs (red/white, blue/white) and 1/32 ounce hair or feather jigs tipped with minnows, Trout Magnets, or Slider grubs in a variety of colors. Historically good locations to try: Powell River arm channel from Point 15 vicinity to Earl’s Hollow. Davis Creek from its headwaters to a half-mile below Powell Valley Marina. Doaks Creek. Big Creek from Indian River Marina to Campbell County Park. Cove Creek above Twin Cove Marina. Mill Creek, Big Ridge Hollow, Lost Creek above its junction with White Creek. Poor Land Creek. Bear Creek. Flint Creek. Sycamore Creek. The Clinch channel above Point 31. Locations between the Dam and Point 9, and the Dam and Point 2 typically produce no crappie.

LARGEMOUTH & SPOTTED BASS
Good from dusk ‘til dawn. Slow during the day.
Surface to 20-feet; deeper or tighter to structure during the day. Same pattern, but better action from sunrise to 9 a.m.
Night fishing with 3/8 to ½-oz spinners, slow-rolled down moderately sloped rocky banks to as deep as 20-feet, is bringing in some largemouth.
There have been periods of good topwater activity on some afternoons, starting a couple of hours before dark. Some early morning catches have been on topwater plugs and buzzbaits.
Slow retrieves with soft plastic (Flukes, Slider worms, Brush Hogs, or shaky head jigs/slider worms) have taken some nice largemouth at about 8 to 15-feet. Motor oil and pumpkin colors are working for lizards and 8-inch worms, Carolina-rigged and fished in the coves where the bank is not steep.

SMALLMOUTH BASS
Moderate.
Dropping deeper, on long points extending into the channels, and rocky points of any slope. Hump fishing with small hair jigs or deep running crankbaits has been good on some late afternoons and at dusk.
5- to 20-feet. Topwater breaks are not numerous, but have produced some fish on the right mornings, before 8 a.m., often in mid-channel.
Pig’n jigs, Brush Hogs, small plastic worms and lizards are still working at dusk, but the action has slowed. Spinners, slow-rolled down moderately sloped banks, are working on smallmouth and largemouth. Small Tennessee rigs, soft swim baits, small plastic Slider worms, plastic lizards, Brush Hogs, or rubber skirted jigs are working. For soft plastic baits and spinner skirts, any shade of watermelon/pumpkin continues to produce fish. Walleye anglers are still picking up smallmouth on shad or alewife, at night under the lights, by casting the bait to the shoreline and letting it drop.
Under the current, clear water conditions, daytime smallmouth fishermen are doing best with very light, low-vis line (2 to 4 pound).

*REGULATION FOR SMALLMOUTH BASS: June 1^st – October 15^th, one per day, 20-inch minimum length limit. October 16^th – May 31^st, five per day (in combination with largemouth), 18-inch minimum length limit.

STRIPED BASS (* See regulation reminder for the April 1^st change.)
Fair in early morning.
Surface on driftlines, or 15 to 20-feet in mid-channel. Cove Creek is still producing some fish in the general vicinity of Point 3. Lost Creek and the channel from Point 19 to Stardust produced some fish, as did Crooked Creek. The Powell side has had catches from Point 10 to Point 12, and from Point 15 to Point 16.
Trolled umbrella rigs, shiners, alewife, or shad are taking most of these fish. Shad and large shiners are working when driftline fished or on planer boards, 5 to 20-feet deep. Umbrella rigs with trailers in pearl or chartreuse, or live bait (gizzard shad, shiners, or alewife) tightlined, or trolled with downriggers, to the depth of the forage fish schools in mid-channel especially across the points and humps.
Regardless of the location on the reservoir, if there are flocks of feeding gulls, striped bass are likely in the area, feeding on the same forage.


*REGULATION REMINDER FOR STRIPED BASS: From April 1^st to October 31^st, the regulation allows 2 per day, 15-inch minimum length limit. On November 1^st it will return to the 1 per day, 36-inch minimum length limit.

WALLEYE
Moderate.
Surface to 15-20 feet, near the shoreline where there is broken rock or red clay. Best at night after 10:30 p.m., but trolling plugs has produced some in the daytime, near the bottom at 15 to 20-feet along humps and drop offs.
Night catches have come on topwater plugs, Flukes, Shad Raps, and snagged alewife or shad, casted toward the shoreline when fishing under lights.
Daytime trolling is picking up fish at 20 to 25 feet on plugs such as Thundersticks, Long Billed Rebels, Mod. 911 Redfins, or Model A’s.