EUFAULA, Ala. – The top 10 pros and 10 co-anglers headed out onto Lake Eufaula for the final day of fishing in the Stren Series Southeast event Saturday morning. And from the looks of the water level, anglers are not going to get a break from falling water this week.
One factor that can neutralize rising water temperatures in the spring is declining water levels, especially on Lake Eufaula. Just as you wouldn’t build a house on a mudslide, bass instinctively know not to build beds while the water is dropping.
Once the water stops falling and stabilizes, bass will resume building beds. But what the bass have no way of knowing is when the dam operator is going to pull the plug again.
“Some of the beds I found earlier in the week are completely out of the water now,” 
noted eighth-place angler Michael Conley of Bainbridge, Ga. “I’m having to fish the first breaks into deep water that I can find.”
“The only reason bass are not up on beds everywhere right now is because the lake is falling so fast,” noted local pro Ryan Ingram, who is in third place.
Ingram, who is fishing staging areas, hopes the water continues to fall.
“As soon as they back the lake up, there will be fish on beds everywhere,” he added. “And I don’t want that just yet.”
The final weigh-in begins today at 4 p.m. at the Eufaula Wal-Mart.
Saturday’s conditions
Sunrise: 5:47 a.m.
Temperature at takeoff: 47 degrees
Expected high temperature: 67 degrees
Water temperature: 62-67 degrees
Forecasted winds: N at 5 to 10 mph
Day’s outlook: sunny