Fishing this week

LITTLE ROCK — HOT SPOTS1. LAKE HINKLE Bream fishing is good using crickets.

Crappie are biting fairly well on jigs. Bass are biting well on spinners. Catfish are biting well on worms and chicken livers.

1. LITTLE RED RIVER The water is clear, but the river is low in the mornings. Trout fishing is

excellent in the mornings. Try PowerBait

and marshmallows. Fly-fishermen should try gray Sowbugs and Xtra Crispys. Switch

to crankbaits in the afternoon.

1. LAKE MAUMELLE Black bass fishing is good about 15-18 feet deep. They are hitting wormsand jigs early in the day. Go to deeper lures such and jig-and-pigs and Carolina rigs later. Try dropoffs early in the day and deep structure later. Lots of Kentucky

bass are being caught on Roostertails, jigheads and worms 10-18 feet deep. White bass fishing is fair. They are being caught toward the restricted area and north shore on

Roostertails, trolling with lures 15 feet deep and jigging with

CC spoons. Crappie fishing is good 14-18 feet deep on the edges of channels. They are hitting small jigs, colored grubs and small minnows. Bream fishing is excellent. They are hitting worms and crickets 10-15 feet deep. The bream are really big this year. Catfish

are being caught on trotlines using prepared bait, large minnows and bream. They are 10-13 feet deep.

1. LAKE NIMROD Crappie are biting Baby Shad, Slab Slay’Rs and

Stroll’Rs in white/salt and pepper, red/chartreuse, and bone white shad,

and PowerBait Crappie Nibbles in green or yellow. Bream are biting great

on red worms, mealworms, crickets and rock hoppers. Bass fishing is good

using worms in tequila sunrise spinner baits, Roostertails and Flukes.

1. LAKE OVERCUP Crappie are biting well on No. 6 minnows, Baby Shad, Stroll’Rs and Slab Slay’R s in white/salt and pepper, red/chartreuse, bone white Baby Shad, and PowerBait Crappie Nibbles in green or yellow. Bream are biting great on night crawlers, red worms, mealworms, crickets and rock hoppers. Bass are hitting works in tequila sunrise and dark colors, spinnerbaits, Rooster Tails and Flukes.