WATER CONDITIONS
The water elevation is fluctuating slightly around 794-feet and is expected to continue to do the same through Friday, June 20th. Surface temperatures in the channel may vary through the day according to the discharges from Norris Dam and the discharge through Melton Hill Dam. Because of the low level in Norris Reservoir, the outflow from Norris Dam into Melton Hill continues to be low, with outflow rates running between 200 and 400 cfs. The Melton Hill channel has warmed to 86 degrees (surface temperature) with some of the larger hollows up to 87 degrees. Bull Run creek, at the park access, was 87 degrees and stained, this afternoon. The high water temperature and reduced flow through the reservoir makes catching fish during the daytime difficult. The summer season sees little daily change in fish patterns, except for the night hours when most fish will come into shallower water, and often much closer to the shoreline.
Flow rates, elevations, and generation times can be found online at http://www.tva.gov/lakes/noh_r.htm.
To view maps to all access areas on the reservoir, go to: http://www.tnfish.org/ReservoirLakeM...rinas_TWRA.htm
Moon phase: waning gibbous. The new moon will be June 27th.

SPECIES DETAILS
CRAPPIE
Slow during the day. Moderate at night under lights in the creeks in brush.
5 to 10 feet deep, early morning hours or at night under lights, near shoreline or deeper brush.
The better locations were in the heads of the larger creeks, near flooded brush and near timber. Main channel crappie fishing has been very slow.
Tuffy minnows tightlined into the brush, 1-inch tube jigs, popeye flies tipped with minnows, trout magnets.

LARGEMOUTH BASS
Fair; better at dusk on shady, rocky banks, and at night. Very few quality sized fish have been caught during the day.
Surface to 20-feet deep.
Pig’n jigs, rubber skirted jigs with medium trailers, on main channel shorelines. Topwater action was slow. Slider worms or lizards, 3/8 oz to ½ oz rubber skirted jigs with medium to large trailers, rubber grubs (Twisters), and Brush Hog-type lures caught some on the main channels and creek mouths. Any shade of pumpkin or watermelon color has been good. Brush in the backs of the larger hollows has produced on soft plastic fished down to about 10-feet, bottom depth.


SMALLMOUTH
Slow.
20-feet, shallower at night.
Very few smallmouth were seen caught during the daytime. Most smallmouth catches have come at night on the main channels on the lower half of the lake, near small points and on main channel humps. Shiners took some at dusk on the main channel, rocky shorelines.
Surface to 20-feet on points leading into the main channel, near wood structure. Those fish have been in deeper water along the channels, on broken rock banks or occasionally on rock bluffs. Surface hits are slow.
Brush Hogs, ¼ oz rubber skirted pumpkin colored jigs, and shad or pearl colored Flukes, shaky head jigs rigged with 4- or 6-inch Slider-type worms in pumpkin colors.

STRIPED BASS
Slow. Best at dawn.
Surface to 25-feet.
Striped bass catches were reported in the channel from the bridge at Bull Run Fossil Plant down to the mouth of Bull Run Creek.
The Bull Run warm water discharge has stopped, eliminating the baitfish concentrations which had been attracting striped bass. Live shad/skipjack, umbrella rigs (see hook rule). Upriver action has almost stopped due to low water levels when there is no generation from Norris Dam. Zara Spooks in rare early morning breaks above Solway and to Bull Run Creek.

WHITE BASS
Moderate.
Surface to 10-feet.
White bass catches improved since last week. Mouth of Bull Run Creek and Beaver Creek. Night fishing under lights has been best. Cast to the breaks at dawn and dusk with small chrome/white spinners, minnows, white hair jigs, 2 to 4-inch plastic swimbaits or grubs on leadheads.

BLUEGILL and SHELLCRACKER
Good.
Popping bugs and small flies have worked best. The larger fish have been caught before 9 a.m.
Crickets or red worms are catching bluegill and shellcracker on the bottom, in the rear of coves, especially where creeks enter the lake and cover is present. Shellcracker are hitting redworms or small minnows fished under floats, in the shallows at less than 10-feet deep. Good bluegill catches are being taken on crickets fished with no float, the bait dragged along the bottom in coves and flats. Deeper water is producing some in shady, rocky areas on crickets tightlined to about 10-feet.