Fishing this week

LITTLE ROCK — HOT SPOTS1. ARKANSAS RIVER (MORRILTON) Bream are trying to spawn along sandbars and are being caught on crickets fished 4-6 feet deep. Kentucky bass are 4-10 feet deep. White bass are moving back to the river.

Catfish are in transition from medium to shallow waterfor spawning.

1. DEGRAY LAKE Bass fishing is good

with plenty of slot (13-16 inches) fish being taken, but big fish are scarce. The bestpattern during the day is a Texas- or Carolina

rigged worm or lizard fished off the deep side

of main lake points. Try a 6-inch worm or lizard in green pumpkin, green pumpkin/red flake or red shad. Hybrid fishing is good with plenty of big fish reported. The best pattern is the five-arm umbrella

rig with six-inch wires.

1. GREERS FERRY LAKE Hybrid and white bass fishing are excellent, with the fish eating a lot of shad at different

times of the day. Bass fishing is good, with the fish in all

three phrases of the spawn. Crappie are still spawning. They are being caught around bushes, in pole timber and over brush piles. Catfishing is good, with the blues spawning and the flatheads getting ready to spawn. Bream are shallow and are

hitting worms, crickets and small crankbaits. Walleye fishing is hitand-miss because they haven’t grouped together yet.

1. LITTLE RED RIVER The water is clear and low. Trout fishing is

excellent using sowbugs, Woolly Buggers, San Juan worms and zebra midges. PowerBait, wax worms and corn are working for spin fishermen.

1. MILLWOOD LAKE Numerous techniques are catching bass, including

buzz baits, Rat-L-Traps, spinnerbaits and soft-plastic shad jerkbaits. The majority of the largemouth bass up Little River are in postspawn. White bass are scattered along Little River and the oxbows in loose and broken schools.

Crappie are moving off cypress trees and ridges where they are finishing their spawning. Large gar are still shallow, and a lot catfish are still being caught on trotlines, yo-yos and tight lines set along current and break lines in the outer bends of Little River.