Has anyone fished here lately.  It has been a month or two since I have gotten out there.  I plan on going saturday, looking for any helpful advice.

yep; I've been the last four weekends in a row with mixed results.

I've found three patterns working:

1. Way up the Stones R on cranks, SB's,  and jigs- better LM coming up there. I was on a strong Buzzbait bite until last weekend, when the front dropped the water temps down to mid 50's. You may have to flip a jig all day for three-five bites, but you have the chance to catch a hog.

2. Back of the major creeks and major flats close to the river channel- shad are everywhere in the backs of the creeks, and there are some fish chasing. These are mostly smaller fish, but thy will eat a trap or SB. Just look for shad flipping, and start chunking. This pattern will dissolve as soon as the Corps pulls the lake back down, which won't be long.

3. Deep ledge and hump fishing with jigs in the lower half of the lake. This seems to be working better on high pressure days. Fish the deep bluffs, points, and humps slow with a shaky head or jig. Most of these fish are in 8-15 ft, near deep water. You'll catch a lot of spots and an occasional good LM doing this. Smallies are nowhere to be found for me lately.

I will probably be fishing the upper end of the lake from the dam down to the hobson pike bridge to the rock shelf along the channel, bout a half a mile past the bridge.  I heard the lake temp was still in the 60's?

Most of the time I will be trolling for stripers, but I will stop if I see anything bustin' shad on top.

Thanks for the help!

3. Deep ledge and hump fishing with jigs in the lower half of the lake. This seems to be working better on high pressure days. Fish the deep bluffs, points, and humps slow with a shaky head or jig. Most of these fish are in 8-15 ft, near deep water. You'll catch a lot of spots and an occasional good LM doing this. Smallies are nowhere to be found for me lately.

Remember when we had that cold snap hit us all of the sudden the first week of April this year? When that was gone and traditional Spring temps returned, I was catching a lot of LM, SM, stripe/hybrid with a bit of blue gill mixed in. Not much in the way of size, but decent quanity.

I continued fishing throughout the summer even though the drought and low water levels were horrendous and had very little success. The last month at Davis Corner (Near LaGuardo) were good to me and I nabbed quite a few LM. That would be about one month before Oct 12, I had some minor surgery and have had to recover. Unlike the Spring, not as much on quantity, but better size.

I say all that to make a comment about what you said about smallies. I haven't caught a smallie since April and I haven't caught a stripe since May.