Editor's Note: Flip Putthoff, who compiles the weekly fishing report, is on vacation. The following report is from last week.

Beaver Lake

Fishing is best in the early morning and late evening, according to fishing guide Jon Conklin.

Flip Putthoff

Flip Putthoff is a staff photographer and outdoors reporter. He's covered outdoor recreation for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and its predecessor newspapers for 45 years. Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills. Wheeze wheeze! He's a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism who always cheers for Mizzou -- unless they're playing the Razorbacks. Contact Flip at [email protected].