Fishing this week

Thursday, December 20, 2012

— HOT SPOTSLAKE CONWAY The water is low and stained. Bream are biting excellently on redworms and crickets at Greers Lake and Caney Creek. Crappie fishing is excellent using minnows and jigs. Bass arebiting well on Cotton Cordell Super Spots.

Catfishing is good on night crawlers .

GREERS FERRY Lake White and hybrid bass are hitting spoons, in-line spinners, hair& jigs and swim baits. Most can be caught in CENTRAL 25-60 feet of water. Walleye are being caught at the mouths of rivers and creeks using spoons, jigs and jigs tipped with minnows in 45 feet of water. Crappie are hitting minnows and jigs pretty well all over the lake in pole timber and brush in 12-18 feet of water. Catfish are still biting wells. Bass fishing is good with some shallow and some deep. Try spinnerbaits, jigs and small cranks shallow.

LAKE MAUMELLE Largemouth bass are biting well 15-20 feet. Pop R‘s and Tiny Torpedoes are working well early in the day, and jigs and Carolina rigs are working later. Spotted bass are hitting Rooster Tails and jighead worms fished 15-20 feet deep. White bass are being caught on Rooster tails, trolled lures fished 25 feet deep and CC spoons. Crappie fishing is excellent

using 3-inch Flukes, small grubs and pink minnows. Bream are biting worms near the main channel in 35 feet of water. Catfishing is good ontrotlines baited with large marshmallows and bream near the channel.

MILLWOOD LAKE Largemouth bass continue feeding best at mid

morning through mid-afternoon and many techniques and lures are

working. Largemouths, spotted bass and white bass continue to school together in groups. Crappie are being caught on white, chartreuse and pink/ white Blakemore Roadrunners.

LAKE NORFORK Stripers have started schooling in the main lake. Shiners and shad are working well. The walleye pre-spawn bite has started. Largemouth and spotted bass have moved closer to the shoreline and are being caught on jerkbaits and crawdad-colored Wiggle Warts. The big crappie are moving into brush in 30-40 feet of water.

Sports, Pages 20 on 12/20/2012