Fishing this week

A map showing the location of Arkansas fishing spots.
A map showing the location of Arkansas fishing spots.

HOT SPOTS

LAKE MAUMELLE Bream fishing is excellent using worms and crickets. Catfishing also is excellent the past week, with dough bait, chicken liver and nightcrawlers working best. Bass fishing is good on spinnerbaits and crankbaits. Crappie fishing is good on minnows and jigs.

LITTLE MAUMELLE RIVER Crappie were biting fair around brush piles on minnows and jigs. Bass fishing was excellent around the jettie points on spinnerbaits and crankbaits. Use a squarebill or jig. Catfishing was excellent on the trotlines. Skipjacks, slicks and goldfish were the best bait.

ARKANSAS RIVER (MAUMELLE POOL) Bass fishing was excellent on spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs and squarebill bait around the jetty points. Catfishing was excellent on trotlines. Use large goldfish, chicken liver, slipjacks. Crappie were biting well in 8-10 feet of water on minnows. In the backwater, bream fishing was good. Try waxworms.

LAKE DARDANELLE Bass fishing has been excellent, with many different ways to catch them. Perching jigs around low-hanging trees that have mayflies in them has been a good technique. Casting frogs around the shad spawn has been an excellent technique. Crankbaits off of drops and points also have been working well. Buzzbaits around the jetties have been working well, too.

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