Weather
A scorcher. Not many people out. With little wind it's not safe to be out in that sun and heat, and it's really hard to cool off. If you go, go early in the morning.
White Bass
Early mornings, throw Dinner Spinners at banks with any morning breeze until about 10 or 11, before it gets really hot.
Catfish
Drift fish early in the morning, or fish at night. Many anglers anchor at night in about 3 to 10 feet on big shallow gravel or mud flats around Patricia Island and Sailboat Bridge. The points at the mouth of Elk River are really good for anchored Blue Cats in the evening, and First Creek is a good area too. Get on shallow gravel bars: Catfish move up there to hunt, running over the tops of the bars and flats looking for food, rather than living there. Blue Cats hunt in groups, so when you catch one you might catch two or three if you have several rods out.
Lucky Cat (Fish Lucke)
New dip jigs for dip-bait fishermen, plus sinker slides and glow sticks coming out under the Lucky Cat brand (World's Luckiest Tackle). Two new hooks: the Meat Hook (improved circle-hook style — reel down or let the fish bury the rod) and the Dagger J (big bend between shank and tip, then a slight bend back — not quite a straight J; great with live bait and less likely to double-hook bait on a hard strike than the Meat Hook). Coming in four sizes (2, 4, 6, 8) in black nickel / black chrome.
Crappie
It's the late-summer August pattern. Look for wind and water movement. Crappie are in the shadiest places around docks and at the very tops of trees. The biggest, most active fish are right at the top of the cover. You may not catch a limit off one brush pile; run a swimming minnow across it, pick up three or four heavy Crappie and move on. It can be hit and miss, but ferocious when you get into them. Keep moving and look for water movement.
Dealers
Trish at Littlefield's Bait & Tackle has a big assortment, including nice Toby Keith kits/combos (micro spin and push-button), Scroungers and more. Grove Walmart also carries Fish Lucke. Or fishlucke.com and Amazon at Fish Lucke.
Safety
Jeff saw a GRDA boat towing in someone with a stalled engine. Thanks to them for being out there.