WATER CONDITIONS
The water elevation on June 5th was 1,021.85-feet, which is 1.1-feet higher than it was last Wednesday. The water level is predicted to rise 7-inches by Friday, June 7th. The inflow is 5,760 cfs. Rainfall expectations tonight through Friday will increase the inflow to a predicted 13,453 cfs by Friday. The water temperature on the channels is 80 degrees on late afternoons, lake wide. Coves are up to 5 degrees warmer in the shallows, on sunny afternoons. The channel color is clear with visibilities as high as 10-feet or more. Channel color will be much less in areas affected by heavy rain.
Creek inflows are clear. Moon phase: waning crescent. The new moon will occur June 8^th and 9^th. The next full moon will be June 23^rd.
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.

SUMMARY
The higher water elevation has flooded vegetation around the shorelines. Anglers targeting the flooded brush at night and at dawn are catching fish. Catfish are in the slab rocks along the shoreline at less than 10-feet deep at dawn. Dusk to dawn fishing has been best because of the clear water.

BLUEGILL and REDEAR (SHELLCRACKER): Bluegill good. Shellcracker fair. Bluegill are hitting crickets and mealworms at 10 to 20-feet close to the bottom in the coves, and on the surface at dawn. Shellcrackers have moved into water 10 to 15-feet deep.

CRAPPIE: Fair but improving during daytime, best at night under lights in lower-end creek hollows and good far upstream in the river headwaters, tight to cover, 5 to 10-feet. Night fishing in the large creek hollows and coves has seen improved catches.

LARGEMOUTH BASS: Moderate at dawn and dusk. Slow during the day. Best at night. Plastic worms or topwater baits in the coves and rear of creeks, tight to wood structure in flooded areas.

SMALLMOUTH BASS: Moderate at dusk and at night. During daylight they’re 15 to 20-feet on shelves, the sides of humps, and points extending into the channels.
Most have spawned, but a few are still pre-spawn. On points, shallow from dark through dawn on shallow sloping points near flooded shoreline vegetation. Transition zones on points at dawn and after dark.

*REGULATION CHANGE FOR SMALLMOUTH BASS: The regulation changed on October 16^th. It now allows five smallmouth with a minimum length limit of 18-inches. This regulation remains in effect until June 1^st.

SPOTTED BASS: Moderate on the rocky main channel shorelines and in flooded timber in the backs of the creeks. Texas-rigged slider-type worms, small, crawfish pattern crankbaits and pig’n jigs.

STRIPED BASS: Fair. (*See regulation change, below, effective Nov. 1^st.) Increased flow through the reservoir has helped catches on the lower end. 20 to 25-feet deep in the channels. They’re scattered on the channels. Tightline or troll where baitfish are located at depth. Surface baitfish schools are scattered and deep during the day, shallow on the surface at the break of day.

*REGULATION REMINDER FOR STRIPED BASS: April 1 – October 31, 2 per day, 15-inch minimum length limit.

WALLEYE: Fair, improving. Flooded shoreline vegetation from dusk ‘til dawn on jerkbaits, shad or alewife cast to the brushy shorelines. Rocky banks with flooded timber and brush on the main channels. Jigging under lights has been slow.

CATFISH: Good at dawn. 3 to 10-feet off slab rocks where they’re about to spawn. Nightcrawlers, chicken livers. Some have been caught on trolled spinner and worms near spawning areas.
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SPECIES DETAILS

BLUEGILL/REDEAR
Bluegill: Good. Shellcracker: Fair.
Shellcrackers have been caught as deep as 15-feet during the day. Early morning shellcrackers may be caught shallower in flooded timber. Keep searching the coves until you find a school and fish that area with red worms or nightcrawlers.
10 to 20-feet deep for bluegill, on the bottom, in coves and along broken rock, steep banks. Early morning bluegill are hitting popping bugs well on rocky banks. Crickets or mealworms have been best for bluegill. Many smaller bluegill are in flooded brush, shallow.

CRAPPIE
Fair, but showing signs of improvement in the rear of larger creeks where there is brush on the channels and coves. Moderate at night under lights in the coves and creek hollows.
5 to 15-feet, tight to brush and wood structure. Shallow at dawn, getting deeper by 9 a.m. and difficult to catch when the sun hits the brush.
Good 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. Good locations: Powell River arm channel from Blue Springs Marina 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.

LARGEMOUTH & SPOTTED BASS
Moderate.
5 to 15-feet
Best in the coves, tight into flooded vegetation, and shallow. Spotted bass are better in the creek embayment coves, tight to flooded timber.
Flooded brush and vegetation has produced some good largemouth and spotted bass, but they’re scattered. Clear water is keeping these fish at 10-feet or more after dawn unless there is ample cover. Zoom plastic worms, 7-inch size in red shad or varieties of watermelon and pumpkin colors. Texas-rigged Slider worms, spinners, soft jerk baits, buzz baits, and shallow running plugs.
Medium running Bandit crankbaits and Norman Little N crankbaits fished parallel to the rocks in stained sections, and soft jerk baits close to the shoreline wood structure.

SMALLMOUTH BASS
Moderate. Best on the days with the worst weather when sunlight penetration is less.
The water is very clear, with 10-feet or more of visibility. Light, low-vis line, and keeping the boat as far from the intended fishing area as possible, is required.
Points, ledges, and the sides of mid-lake humps are best – shallow after dark through dawn, and as deep as 15 to 20-feet during the day. Smaller, male smallmouth are on the gravel points and in the shoreline vegetation, as shallow as 3 to 10-feet on many days at dawn and dusk. Soft jerk baits and small plastic lures (Gitzits, Centipedes, Slider worms, etc.) have taken some tight to the banks in the flooded brush and floating wood. Texas-rigged 6-inch plastic Slider worms, Zoom worms, or lizards have taken fish on the ledges and humps.
Other lures which have produced: crawfish imitation colors, 3/8 oz hair jig with trailer; or popeye jigs (1/16^th to 1/8^th oz), tipped with a tuffy minnow. Dark green (cedar tree green) or gray colors are good with small hair jigs tipped with minnows.


*REGULATION CHANGE FOR SMALLMOUTH BASS: The regulation changed on October 16^th. It now allows five smallmouth with a minimum length limit of 18-inches. This regulation remains in effect until June 1^st.


STRIPED BASS
Fair.
To 25-feet in the channels river arms or large creek embayments. Look for feeding gulls which indicate the location of baitfish schools and troll or tightline alewife or shad in those locations. Gull activity has decreased. These fish are scattered and the water is clear. Dawn is best.
Troll ½ to 1 oz bucktail jigs, umbrella rigs with trailers in pearl or chartreuse, or live bait (gizzard shad, shiners, or alewife) tightlined to the depth of the forage fish schools in mid-channel especially across the points and humps.
On the lower half of the reservoir, try the outer half of Lost Creek, Point 19 to Bear Hole Bend, and from Crooked Creek (behind Island F) up to Straight Creek, and on the Powell side, from Lindymood Hollow to Point 11. Cove Creek catches are slow. Straight Creek to Black Fox should be holding fish right now.
There is a new, statewide hook regulation in effect. Read it here: http://www.eregulations.com/tennesse...s-regulations/

*REGULATION REMINDER FOR STRIPED BASS: April 1 – October 31, 2 per day, 15-inch minimum length limit.

WALLEYE
Fair, improving at night.
Best after midnight. Lower end walleye are on shorelines with flooded timber, less than 10-feet deep at night. Cast shad or alewife to the shorelines, close to flooded vegetation. Some crankbaits or jerkbaits are working on those shorelines.
Fishing under lights with Hopkins or Mann O’Lure jigs has been poor. Daytime trolling catches have been very slow.

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