HOT SPOTS
LAKE MAUMELLE Bream fishing has been excellent on worms and crickets. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Bass are hitting spinnerbaits, crankbaits and topwaters and rate good. Catfishing is good using nightcrawlers.
ARKANSAS RIVER (LR POOL) Bream are active about 4-5 feet of depth and are good on worms and crickets. Crappie fishing is poor. Bass fishing is good early in the day and late after sundown around the rocky points; use black buzzbaits and topwater lures. Catfish are working the river in the vicinity of the airport. They are about 25 feet deep and are biting well on cut shad and chicken livers. Closer to the David D. Terry Lock and Dam, try blood bait, shad, chicken livers and worms.
WHITE RIVER The trout bite has been excellent, both rainbows and browns. Jigs, stick baits and lures are all working. The hot spot has been Rim Shoals. The hot flies were olive Woolly Buggers, Y2Ks, prince nymphs, zebra midges (black with silver wire and silver bead or red with silver wire and silver bead), pheasant tails, ruby midges, root beer midges, pink and cerise San Juan worms, and sowbugs. Double fly nymph rigs have been very effective.
LAKE FAYETTEVILLE Bass fishing is excellent using spinnerbaits, crankbaits and topwaters lures. Catfishing is excellent with worms and chicken livers. Bream are good; use worms and crickets. Crappie remain fair on minnows and jigs.