State fishing report

CENTRAL BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

BREWER;Good;Good;Good;Excellent

CLEAR;Good;Good;Poor;Good

CONWAY;Good;Good;Good;Fair

GREERS FERRY;Good;Excellent;Good;Good

HARRIS BRAKE;Fair;Good;Good;Fair

MAUMELLE;Excellent;Good;Excellent;Good

NORRELL;Good;--;Good;Fair

OVERCUP;--;--;--;--

LAKE PECKERWOOD;Good;Fair;Good;Good

PICKTHORNE;--;--;--;--

SALINE RIVER (BENTON);Excellent;Good;Good;Poor

SUNSET;Good;Excellent;Good;Fair

VALENCIA;--;--;Excellent;--

WILLASTEIN;Fair;Excellent;--;--

WINONA;Good;Excellent;Good;Fair

ARKANSAS RIVER (CADRON);--;--;--;--

ARKANSAS RIVER (LITTLE ROCK);Fair;Good;Good;Poor

ARKANSAS RIVER (MAUMELLE POOL);Good;Good;Excellent;Good

ARKANSAS RIVER (MORRILTON);--;--;--;--

BISHOP PARK PONDS;Good;Fair;Fair;Fair

LITTLE MAUMELLE RIVER;Good;Good;Excellent;Fair

LITTLE RED RIVER (GREERS FERRY TAILWATER) Increased generation starting today will activate two units in the afternoon hours. This will be for about six hours each afternoon. For fly fishing, soft hackles, hare's ear, pheasant tails, sowbugs and streamers are productive. Hot pink and cotton candy-colored bodies on chartreuse jig heads are recommended for Trout Magnet spin fishing.

NORTH BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

BULL SHOALS;--;--;--;--

NORFORK;--;--;--;--

WHITE RIVER The river level has been low, and with only two generators running. Rainbow trout are biting PowerBait and shrimp. Brown trout, including a reported 24-inch brownie, have been hitting stickbaits.

NORFORK TAILWATER Fishing has been good amid caddis hatches. The most productive flies have been small midge patterns (sizes 18, 20, 22) like ruby midges, root beer midges, zebra midges (black or red with silver wire and silver bead) and soft hackles (sizes 14, 16) like the Green Butt. Egg patterns have also been productive. Double-fly nymph rigs have been very effective. Try a small bead-headed nymph (zebra midge, Copper John or pheasant tail) suspended 18 inches below a brightly colored San Juan worm (hot fluorescent pink or cerise size 10). The fishing is better in the morning. Dry Run Creek is fishing better. The hot flies have been sowbugs (size 14), Y2Ks (size 12) and various colored San Juan worms (worm brown, red, hot fluorescent pink and cerise size 10).

SOUTH-CENTRAL BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

FELSENTHAL;--;--;--;--

WHITE OAK;Good;Good;Good;Fair

NORTHWEST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

BEAVER;Fair;Fair;Good;Fair

BEAVER TAILWATER Rainbow trout are biting PowerBait, nightcrawlers and waxworms. One angler weighed a 4.3-pound rainbow Saturday at Beaver Dam Store. Fishing is good upstream from Parker Bottoms in the Trophy Management Area, Campground C, Riverview walk-in areas and the turnaround. Nymphs and midges are working well along with white or olive PJ Jigs. Stocking occurred last week and fly fishermen report good numbers. Typical good lures in this area are gold and silver Colorado spoons, red and gold Buoyant Spoons and Flicker Shad in Pro Series Nos. 4 and 5. Good PowerBait colors are white, red, orange, yellow chartreuse and peach. Good flies are pheasant tails, midges in blue dun, black, olive, hare's ear, tungsten Copper Johns, WD-40s, Trout Magnets and San Juan worms.

FAYETTEVILLE;Good;Excellent;Good;Poor

SEQUOYAH;Good;Good;Fair;Fair

NORTHEAST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

CROWN;Fair;Good;Poor;Good

SPRING RIVER Lots of bugs are hatching. Rainbow trout are biting bead-head nymphs like a pheasant tail or hare's ear in sizes 10-12. Bigger trout are biting Woolly Buggers in olive and brown. Hot pink Trout Magnets are always productive for catching trout and smallmouth bass on the Spring River.

SOUTHWEST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

COLUMBIA;--;Good;--;--

MILLWOOD;Good;--;Fair;Good

GREESON;Good;--;--;Excellent

WEST-CENTRAL BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

ATKINS;Poor;Fair;Poor;Poor

BAILEY;--;--;--;--

CATHERINE;Fair;--;--;--

DARDANELLE;--;--;--;--

DEGRAY;Fair;Good;--;Fair

HAMILTON;--;Good;--;--

NIMROD;Good;Good;Good;Excellent

OUACHITA;--;Good;--;--

LAKE HAMILTON TAILWATER Bank fishermen are catching limits using PowerBaits, waxworms, mealworms, redworms, and corn fished just off the bottom with a marshmallow floater. Spin fishermen casting small jigs, Super Dupers and Little Cleos in silver or white are catching limits of trout in current and slack water. Fly fishermen can still access areas that hold good numbers of rainbow trout and can be successful presenting Trout Magnets in white or pink, micro-jigs in black or San Juan worms in red or hot pink with a strike indicator. Crappie are being caught on small jigs and live minnows around rock structure and sandbars close to the main river channel.

SOUTHEAST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE

ARKANSAS RIVER (PINE BLUFF POOL);Fair;--;--;--

ARKANSAS RIVER (POOL 2);Good;Excellent;Excellent;Poor

BEAR CREEK;Good;Good;--;Good

CANE CREEK;Good;Excellent;Fair;--

CHICOT;--;--;--;--

MONTICELLO;Fair;--;--;Poor

NOTE For more detailed information on baits and lures, go to: agfc.state.ar.us/fishing/fishingreport.htm

Sports on 06/07/2018

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