Fishing this week

1. ARKANSAS RIVER (LITTLE ROCK POOL) Bream fishing is good using crickets. Crappie are being caught using minnows. Bass fishing has been fair using topwater baits early in the day. Try sandbar drops later in the mornings. Catfish are being caught with stink bait, chicken liver and cut shad.

LITTLE ROCK — St. Francis 2. ARKANSAS RIVER (MAUMELLE POOL) River Bream fishing is excellent using crickets and worms. Crappie fishing is good using minnows and jigs fished in deep water. Bass fishing is fair. Use topwater baits in the mornings and topwaters and shaky head worms in the evenings. Catfish are being caught on slicks and cut bait.

1. LAKE GREESON Bream fishing has been goodusing crickets. Crappie fishing is fair using minnows

20-25 feet deep. Bass are being caught early and late

in the day using worms, jigs and topwater baits around rocky points. Catfish are being caught on chicken liver. Theyare also being caught on trotlines using bream in about 10 feet

of water. Walleye are being caught on jigs and crankbaits fished

in deeper water.

1. LAKE HINKLE Bream fishing is good, mostly using crickets. A few crappie have been caught using minnows and jigs in deep water.Bass fishing has been good using crankbaits, spinners and minnows.

Catfish are being caught with chicken liver and stink bait.

1. LAKE NIMROD Crappie are biting around brush piles and the upper Fourche River on No. 6 and 8 minnows, Baby Shad, Slab Slay’R and Stroll’R in white/salt and pepper, red/chartreuse and bone white shad, and on PowerBait Crappie Nibbles in green or yellow. Bream are biting great on red worms, meal worms, crickets and rock hoppers. Bass are going for plastic worms in tequila sunrise and dark colors. Spinnerbaits, Rooster Tails and Flukes are also catching bass.