Lake Arthur (Butler County)

 Anglers boated hybrid striped bass while night fishing over creek channels, and took walleye and channel catfish near submerged road beds and railway ballasts. About 150 people per day fished at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Family Fishing area during the Regatta at Lake Arthur Aug. 4-5. Small bluegills, sunfish and yellow perch were released. The following anglers caught their first fish at the event: Morgan Colangelo, 2, of Cranberry (bluegill); Julia Chrobak, 11, of Baden (bluegill); Wyatt Stine, 5, of Falling Water, W.Va. (one bluegill, one perch); Kendall Bruce, 8, of New Castle (two bluegill); Drake Ludwik, 6, of Butler (bluegill); Maryn Zupancic, 6, of Sewickley (two bluegill); Alec Barbin, 14, of Buffalo, N.Y. (yellow perch) and Luke Dunn, 4 (bluegill) and Ellie Dunn, 2½ (bluegill) of Evans City.

Spinney Mountain Reservoir

Trout very good. Fles are doing well with several 23- to 25-inch fish reported. Chronomid flies, Green and Brown being favored colors, Tube jigs, Tasmanian Devils are working well. Northern Pike-Good-North end along sandbar, a few over 30 to 45 inches. Rapalas and Crocodiles, Pink/silver spoons are working.

LAKE OF THE OZARKS

Bagnell Tailwater: 84 degrees, normal, dingy; catfish slow, try cut shad, cut bluegill, worms and goldfish; crappie slow, try crappie jigs and minnows; black bass slow, try worms, dark-colored soft plastics; white bass fair using light-colored soft plastics, Rooster Tails and crappie jigs.
Glaize: 84 degrees, normal, muddy; catfish slow, try worms, chicken livers, hotdogs and cut bait; crappie fair using jigs and minnows; black bass slow, try dark-colored soft plastics, buzzbaits and spinnerbaits; white bass slow, try light-colored soft plastics, Rooster Tails and minnows.
Gravois: 84 degrees, normal, dingy; catfish fair using cut baits; crappie slow, try using jigs; black bass slow, try using soft-plastic worms; white bass, slow.

Oneida Lake report:

 The walleye fishing has been fairly steady with some of the deeper areas seeing good action. A few are also being taken along the weeds. Jigs tipped with a worm and blade baits are working well. Bass have been somewhat scarce but reports over the last week or so indicate an increase in activity. A few perch have been taken off the north shore and pickerel continue to be active.

Chautauqua Lake

Walleye are still hitting on worm harnesses but action has slowed, according to Mike Sperry at Chautauqua Reel Outdoors. If you locate healthy green weeds, the fish are there. Slow troll around 1 mph. Colorado and willow leaf blades are good bets with hammered brass a staple. There are plenty of perch in 20 feet of water in the north basin. Small ones are abundant with a few bigger ones mixed in. Jig and crawler or vibes will work. Musky is still good casting and trolling. Cast jerkbaits tight to and over weeds in 8 to 12 feet of water. Black, black and orange, and perch colors are working. Work them fast to trigger a reaction strike according to Sperry.

Jemez Mountains

In the Jemez Mountains near Los Alamos, the fishing at Fenton Lake was good using worms and corn. The Cebolla River, which flows into and out of Fenton Lake, was stocked with rainbow trout last week. Streamflows in the Jemez Mountains are very low. The Rio San Antonio was stocked July 11 with 750 rainbow trout.

CENTRAL LAKE ERIE

Walleye seem to be everywhere, with lots of limits of fish caught just a short distance from the harbors along the Central Basin of Lake Erie. The Cleveland area walleye fishing has been best in 40 to 45 feet of water, where trolling with tandem spinners rigs and nightcrawlers or spoons has been especially productive.
Many of the anglers who generally troll the deep, clear waters are staying closer to shore and casting for walleye with weight-forward spinners and nightcrawlers and small spinner rigs tipped with just half of a nightcrawler.
While those near-shore fishermen are catching lots of walleye, they're also connecting with a great many white perch, white bass, sheepshead and catfish.

Central Lake Erie

The Lake Erie walleye fishing has been best from the Grand River area to the waters off Ashtabula and Conneaut. Trolling early in the day has been a key. Fishing off the mouth of the Grand River has been consistent in 35 to 50 feet of water. Fishermen are heading to the 50- and 60-foot depths off Ashtabula and Conneaut.
Tru-Trip diving planers and spoons in purple, pink and chartreuse have been most popular, but diving plugs and tandem spinner rigs and nightcrawlers are catching walleye. Unfortunately, a lot  of those fish are jumbo white perch, and some suspended yellow perch.
Fishermen are using on-line planer boards to take lures and line away from the trolling boat, or large planer boards supporting lines on release clips.
A few drift-and-cast walleye fishermen are scoring, usually closer to shore where schools of smaller walleye are feeding.