CENTRAL BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
BREWER Good Good Good Good
BISHOP PARK PONDS Fair -- Good Fair
CLEAR -- -- -- Fair
CONWAY Good Good Good Good
GREERS FERRY Good Fair Good Good
HARRIS BRAKE Good Poor Good Good
MAUMELLE -- -- -- --
NORRELL Good -- Good Good
OVERCUP -- -- -- --
LAKE PECKERWOOD Good -- Good --
PICKTHORNE -- -- -- --
SALINE RIVER (BENTON) Poor Poor Poor Poor
SUNSET -- Excellent -- Fair
WINONA -- -- Fair Fair
ARKANSAS RIVER (CADRON) -- -- -- --
ARKANSAS RIVER (LITTLE ROCK) Good Poor Good Poor
ARKANSAS RIVER (MAUMELLE POOL) -- -- Good --
ARKANSAS RIVER (MORRILTON) -- -- -- --
LITTLE MAUMELLE RIVER Good -- Good Fair
LITTLE RED RIVER (GREERS FERRY TAILWATER) Generation is sporadic and unpredictable. Brown trout are beginning to move, but the shoals have been so low they are not following their usual patterns. Rainbow trout are taking small emergers and midge pupa.
NORTH BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
BULL SHOALS Fair -- -- Excellent
NORFORK Good Good -- Good
WHITE RIVER Rainbow trout fishing is excellent with gold/black Rapala CD5s and CD9s and copper Colorado spoons. Brown trout and cutthroat trout are not biting well, but have shown a preference for sculpins over stickbaits. Marabou jigs are working on overcast days. For fly fishing, Wildcat Shoals is hot. The hot flies are olive Woolly Buggers (sizes 8, 10), Y2Ks (size 14, 12), prince nymphs (size 14), zebra midges (black with silver wire and silver bead or red with silver wire and silver bead sizes 16, 18), pheasant tails (size 14), ruby midges (size 18), root beer midges (size 18), pink and cerise San Juan worms (size 10) and sowbugs (size 16). Double-fly nymph rigs have been very effective. Use long leaders and plenty of lead to get your flies down.
NORFORK TAILWATER The most productive flies have been small midge patterns such as ruby, root beer and zebra midges. Black or red with silver wire and silver bead are best. Soft hackles like the green butt are working well, too. Egg patterns also have been productive. Double-fly nymph rigs have been very effective. Try a small Y2K suspended 18 inches below a brightly colored San Juan worm. Best colors are hot fluorescent pink or cerise. The fishing is better in the morning. Brown trout are biting sowbugs (size 14), Y2Ks (size 12), various-colored San Juan worms and mop flies.
SOUTH-CENTRAL BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
FELSENTHAL -- -- -- --
WHITE OAK -- -- -- --
NORTHWEST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
BEAVER Good -- Fair Good
BEAVER TAILWATER Trout are biting 1/8- and 1/4-ounce spoons from Spider Creek to the U.S. 62 Bridge.
FAYETTEVILLE -- -- -- --
FORT SMITH -- -- -- --
SEQUOYAH Poor Poor Poor Poor
NORTHEAST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
CHARLES Fair -- -- --
CROWN Good Poor Fair Good
WHITE RIVER Fair -- Good --
SPRING RIVER White flies like the Guppie and White Lightning have been hot this week. Olive has worked well with a Y2K when the fishing is slow. On spinning tackle, a Florida pink or white Trout Magnet has been hot.
SOUTHWEST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
COLUMBIA -- -- -- --
MILLWOOD Excellent -- Fair Poor
GREESON Good -- -- Good
WEST-CENTRAL BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
ATKINS Fair Poor Poor Good
CATHERINE Fair Fair Good Poor
DARDANELLE -- -- -- --
DEGRAY -- -- -- --
HAMILTON Good -- -- Excellent
NIMROD Good Good -- Fair
OUACHITA Good Fair Good Fair
LAKE HAMILTON TAILWATER White bass are biting crankbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits and jigs. Hybrid stripers also run with these fish and will hit the same prey items. Blue catfish in the 4- to 6-pound range have been caught next to the dam on live minnows and stink baits.
SOUTHEAST BASS BREAM CATFISH CRAPPIE
ARKANSAS RIVER (PINE BLUFF POOL) Good -- -- --
ARKANSAS RIVER (POOL 2) -- -- -- --
BEAR CREEK -- -- -- --
CANE CREEK -- -- -- --
CHICOT -- -- -- --
STORM CREEK -- -- -- --
NOTE For more detailed information on baits and lures, go to: agfc.state.ar.us/fishing/fishingreport.htm
Sports on 10/31/2019