Hot Sports
LAKE CONWAY Bream are biting well on worms and crickets fished on the bottom in 6 to 8 feet of water. Crappie are biting well on minnows and jigs in 3 feet of water around Gold Creek and Caney Creek. Bass are fair on dark-colored jerkbaits and jigs. Catfishing is excellent on minnows and worms hung from yo-yo’s and limblines around live cypress trees.
GREERS FERRY LAKE Bass fishing is good shallow and deep. The shallow bite is best on spinnerbaits and small crankbaits. The deeper fish can be caught with a drop-shot rig, a football head jig and a Carolina-rigged lizard. The crappie are suspended 15 to 30 feet deep, depending on where the baitfish are, try using minnows or a jig in the spring craw color. Hybrids and white bass are around the shad; some are shallow and some are as deep as 70 feet.
LAKE MAUMELLE Bass are biting well in 10 to 15 feet of water on spinnerbaits, jerk baits and dead-sticked wacky-rigged worms. Spotted bass are biting well on jigs and crankbaits in 10 to 15 feet of water. White bass are biting well west of Arkansas 10. They’re hitting deep-diving Bomber and Bandit crankbaits on the east side of the bridge and Rooster Tails and a jig-and-grub combo on the west side of the bridge.
BEAVER LAKE Stripers are using deep water next to road beds, gravel bars, tree lines and bluffs. Stripers up in the White River and War Eagle arms of the lake are in clear water pockets or close to the banks and on the bottom along gravel bars. Try dragging baits close to these areas including along the bottom on gravel bars will get you some fish. The mud line is in the Rocky Branch area, but is beginning to settle. Fishing is good ahead of this mud line. Fishing is good on live shad fished from the surface to about 30 feet deep. Small umbrella rigs with white or chartreuse grubs or flat-line trolled crankbaits such as no. 14 Husky Jerks or Smithwick Rogues are working well.