05-20-2004, 03:47 AM
LAKE RUSSELL: Largemouth Bass: Good, try shallow creeks, flats, and rocky points with medium-running crankbaits and plastic worms. Fish are bedding. Yellow Perch: Excellent, fishing medium minnows deep and jigging spoons. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Excellent, early morning with bucktails, cut and live herring and jigs especially when water is running below dam. Night fishing has been the most productive. Reports of 6 to 8-pound fish being caught. White Bass: Very Good, using bucktails, spinners and live bait below dam. Crappie: Good, using minnows around brush piles and bridge pilings in 14 to 15 feet of water. Also try fishing jigs along banks with cover. Catfish: Fair, using cut bait and nightcrawlers on the bottom. Bream: Excellent, using red wigglers, pinks, crickets and nightcrawlers. Water temperature is 68 to 70 degrees and mostly clear.
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