Fishing this week

HOT SPOTS

ARKANSAS RIVER (MAUMELLE POOL) Crappie are biting well on Roadrunners and red/chartreuse or black/yellow jigs fished around wood and rocks in slack water. Bass fishing is excellent around jetty points using square-billed crankbaits, Senkos, lizards and spinnerbaits. Catfishing is excellent on trotlines baited with sunfish, skipjack, livers or worms in the main channel.

ARKANSAS RIVER (MORRILTON) Black bass are biting well on green pumpkin lizards fished 4-8 feet deep. White bass and stripers are moving up Point Remove Creek, Petit Jean River, CoppersGap and Flagg Lake Cutoff and are biting well on chartreuse or pearl chatterbaits. Crappie are biting well on chartreuse jigs tipped with ah minnow in Coppers Gap, Petit Jean River and behind the islands in Willow Bend. Catfishing is good on jetty tips using worms.

BULL SHOALS Walleyes are feeding in the creek arms. White bass are still spawning in some creek arms. Nice numbers are still spawning in Bear Creek. Kentucky bass are in the creek arms on secondary points. Catfish are on the move along main lake bluffs and creek arms.

LAKE DARDANELLE Bass have been biting well on buzzbaits and frogs early and late and on brush hogs and jigs fished around cover during the middle of the day. Crappie have been biting very well on minnows and jigs fished around dead grass in the river. Stripers and white bass can be found in the mouths of the creeks and at the mouth of the nuclear plant and are hitting small crankbaits, white jigs with grubs, jerkbaits, tailspinners and inline spinners are working well.

LAKE MAUMELLE Largemouth bass fishing is excellent using black/red spinnerbaits and floating worms fished around grass 5-10 feet deep. Spotted bass are biting well on the outside edge of grass on jigs. White bass fishing is still excellent up the creek past Sleepy Hollow using Roostertails, crappie jigs and minnows. Crappie fishing is fair, but they are moving back out to 10-15 feet of water. Bream are being caught on crickets and worms fished around brush in 10-15 feet of water.