White Bass
Still really good. Troll, or cast spoons or swimming minnows. They're in their summer pattern, feeding heavily on small shad fry, and you'll see more of them hitting the surface. You might tangle with a Hybrid in the 3- to 10-pound range, and your reel will start talking. Look in the Sweetwater area, on the humps and down around Goat Island. Honey Creek Bridge should get good once the water clears there.
Dinner Spinners / Tie2
It's time for Dinner Spinners. A Tie2 jig ahead of the Dinner Spinner keeps the twist between the spinner and the jig head instead of all the way up your line. It's not 100% bulletproof but makes a big difference, especially with a swivel at the head of the spinner. 1/8- and 1/4-ounce Dinner Spinners reeled across the top when White Bass are surfacing are about as good as it gets. Pair one with a chartreuse-and-white 1/16-ounce Lucky Bug or swimming minnow on the Tie2 head and you'll often catch two at a time. Haydn has used blade baits and slabs on his trips, but he's catching more on Tie2 jigs and swimming minnows than anything else. Ask Trish and Tracy at Littlefield's Bait & Tackle to show you how that Dinner Spinner + Tie2 system sets up.
Catfish
Catfish are wrapping up their spawn. The Fourth of July is when drifting for Blue Cats really starts, as fish come off the spawn. Use cut shad and drift from 30–40 feet up into 10–15 feet, letting the fish tell you where they are. Keep the boat under 0.6 mph on your GPS, especially for big Catfish, which don't like fast drifts.
Bass
A big tournament out of Wolf Creek drew a lot of Bass anglers, and the winner reportedly caught many fish flipping brush.
Lake level
The lake will get muddier than it's been all year because of how much water they're pulling through, and more rain today and tomorrow will push the Neosho, Spring and Elk rivers higher. The watershed is full and everything is running off.
Dealers
Littlefield's for Dinner Spinners and Tie2 jigs; Amazon at Fish Lucke or fishlucke.com if you can't make it down there.