Live bait is working best for striped bass. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends fishing for stripers from Prairie Creek park south to Point 12 where the White and War Eagle arms of the lake meet.

Flip Putthoff/NWA Democrat-Gazette Bruce Darr isn’t a fishing guide, but he caught this dandy striped bass on a fly rod in ...

Stripers should be around the shad, but not all shad schools attract stripers. Use brood minnows or live shad for bait. Keep a top-water lure tied on to cast toward surfacing stripers.

The graphs also showed the jigging spoons moving up and down through the fish, and that's when the stripers were supposed to strike.

Striped bass are going for live bait. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends trolling for stripers between Prairie Creek and Rocky Branch parks. Shad or brood minnows are the best bait. Look for ...

“We almost sell more jigs with worm tails than we do live shiner minnows and shrimp baits,” said Keith Fraser at Loch Lomond Live Bait in San Rafael.