Fishing this week

HOT SPOTS

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A map showing the location of Arkansas fishing spots.

BEAVER LAKE Plenty of stripers are being caught around the main lake points, humps, ridges, rock piles, brush lines and ditches. Try fishing live shad from the surface down to 30 feet deep or try trolling small umbrella rigs with white or chartreuse grubs, Rapala No. 14 Husky Jerks and five- to sixinch Smithwick Rogues in black- or purplebacked colors. Walleye are being caught by three-way rigging Rapalas in natural colors for clear water or chartreuse/orange and clown colors in areas of stained water. Crappie are biting well along the outside edges of boat docks. Catfishing is good using live and prepared baits.

LITTLE MAUMELLE RIVER Bream are biting well on crickets in the lily pads. Bass are biting well. Catfish are biting well on trotlines baited with live and prepared baits.

NORFORK LAKE Striped bass fishing has been good. Stripers are biting well on threadfin shad fished 20-50 feet down in 50-80 feet of water. few hybrids are still coming up at daybreak chasing shad. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass fishing has been good. Spinnerbaits and jigs are working after dark along the banks. A few nice-sized crappie are being caught but they are deep. Find brush 30-40 feet deep and the crappie will be on the tops and buried inside of the brush.

WHITE OAK LAKE Fishing has been good on the upper lake early in the mornings and late in the evenings. Bass are biting early and late on spinnerbaits, crankbaits, Flukes and Brush Hogs. Bream fishing is fair on worms and crickets. Catfish are biting on trotlines using live bait and catfish baits, and tight lining along the banks using worms, catfish baits and crickets.

WHITE RIVER The water is high and trout are plentiful and are feeding aggressively. Fly-fishing with a midge under an indicator with San Juan droppers or assorted sow bug patterns 6-10 feet down has been a lethal combination in the mornings. Bait fishermen are having great success with green floating trout worms or redworms.

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