Weather
Great weekend ahead; lake temps higher than historical. Warm stretch into the 60s–70s, maybe pushing 80, then the usual risk of a nasty cold snap right when fish want the bank — can stagger the spawn over weeks/months, which may help the population.
Crappie
Plenty of small fish; bigger ones harder than the last few years. 2019 flood-year class still producing those 13–15 inch fish.
Rivers / Twin Bridges
Warm weather will pack Twin Bridges. Clear water and low inflow means White Bass and Crappie stacking in deeper holes and moving day to day. Spring River past Ten Sea Highway into shallower riffles; look shallow if they're not in the holes. Jeff's pick: 2½" swimming minnow on 1/4 oz, or Tie2 1/16 top / 1/8 bottom — chartreuse-and-white Lucky Bug on top with chartreuse-and-black swimming minnow on bottom, or Blue Moon over thunderstorm. Chartreuse/white, blue/chartreuse, pumpkin/chartreuse, clear chartreuse with glitter are hard to go wrong with.
Paddlefish
Best from Shangri-La north; with this warm weather, mouth of Elk River up to Twin Bridges.
Catfish
Look shallow 2–10 feet. Testing Lucky Cat products; new Pushing Grip coming — USA-made original fish-grip design with a push point for lockjaw cats, red/white/blue (red body, blue cord, white ball), flared handle. Ask dealers; tell them Toby Keith sent you.
Dealers
Fish Lucke Amazon, fishlucke.com, area dealers for the Pushing Grip.