Bull Shoals Lake As of Wednesday, the Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake's elevation at 646.69 feet msl (normal conservation pool – 654 msl). WARNING!!! While out on the water please be advised that this is now WATERFOWL SEASON!! It is advised to keep a safe distance from decoy spreads and Duck blinds.Waterfowl shotgun loads are generally high powered and have steel shot loads. These shot loads have a tendency to skip along the surface before loosing energy. Water temperature is 59 degrees. Be very careful when boating as the low water level has exposed hazards that we haven't seen for several years. Walleye are starting to bite in shallow water (less than 10 feet deep) and biting on suspending stick baits, such as Rogues and Lucky Craft Pointers, and on Alabama rigs. Smallmouth bass and large stripers are also biting on this pattern. Trolling Alabama rigs in 20 feet one day last week produced six hooked stripers in the 30-lb. Range with three boated and released. Crappie are suspended over brush piles and in the standing timber along bluff banks, and are biting on jigs and minnows and ¼-oz. Jigging spoons. White bass and spotted bass are biting on jigging spoons in 30-60 feet of water.