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LAKE CONWAY Catfishing was excellent on the lake by the creek channels on limb lines and trotlines. Use minnows or goldfish for bait. Bass rated good, with most action around lily pads. White spinnerbaits, topwater frogs and plastic worms worked best. Bream were also good around lily pads using worms and crickets. Crappie fishing was fair and best around the Arkansas 89 bridge and around cypress trees. Use minnows or jigs.
LAKE MAUMELLE White bass are good; use deep-diving Bandits and Bombers. They are being caught in the main lake on CC spoons, white jigs and Rooster Tails when schooling. They are mixed in with the crappie, which also were caught in good numbers. Crappie are being caught on crappie minnows and jigs. Crappie are 15 feet deep and around the edges or the channels. Bream fishing is excellent and the fish can be found at 13 feet on the bottom. They are being caught on crickets and live worms. Catfishing is excellent and are being caught in 15-20 feet depth on stink bait, small bream and chicken livers. Thirty-pound catfish are common.
LITTLE MAUMELLE RIVER Bream are bedded up and are biting on worms and crickets. Catfishing was good with live bait, worms and chicken liver. Crappie were working well in 4 feet depth on minnows or jigs. Bass fishing is excellent early in the day and late evening. Spinnerbaits, crankbaits and topwater were all working well.
LAKE NIMROD Surface temperature was 87 degrees, and those conditions led to an excellent week for fishing. Bass were excellent in shallow depth using topwater lures. Catfish were also working in shallow water and the bite was excellent on worms and chicken livers. Crappie fishing was excellent with fish biting at 5 feet deep on minnows and jigs. Bream fishing was excellent around the shoreline; use worms and crickets.