WEST POINT LAKE IS FULL, CLEAR & 83 DEGREES

Bass fishing is fair and look for the fish in 18 to 20 feet of water on road beds, humps, main lake structure and the mouths of creeks. Use a Carolina rigged Zoom u tail green or June bug worm any color will work. Also have the watermelon and red shad colors are working just fish them all slowly and add some Jack’s Juice in the bags. Spend some time first graphing with your Lowrance Structure Scan. Also, use a larger Normans DD22 deep diving crank bait in shad with some blue on it. The smaller bass are bunched up on the flats and best baits are small Rooster Tails, Rat L Traps and small Fat Free Shad or Rapala crank baits fished slowly.

Hybrids and whites are also in their summertime pattern as they have moved onto the ridges, humps, and roadbeds in the main lake. Live bait is the best bait. The best places to fish are the mouths of main lake creeks and point on the river. Several large hybrids have been caught up in Whitewater. You may see some surface action mid day or as soon as the water starts moving. Keep a popping cork and fly handy and ready for schooling fish especially late in the afternoon and right at dark.

Crappie are biting under the bridges at night using lanterns in 8 to 10 feet of water. Fish around deeper docks and blow downs and under the bridges during the day. Best baits are minnows and jigs. The bridge at Yellow Jacket Creek and up in Beech Creek are good areas to fish right now.