Northwest Arkansas Outdoors
Jason Piper and his daughter, Katelyn, catch crappie at Beaver Lake last October.
Photo by Flip Putthoff
White River rendezvous
Gorgeous trout, great company cure winter blues
LAKEVIEW — Swirling under the lights at Gaston’s White River Resort, a ghostly mist rises from the river and rolls downstream into the darkness. Read More »
ARKANSAS SPORTSMAN: Chemicals unlikely reason for diminished quail
LITTLE ROCK — An attorney from Magnolia recently sent me a letter suggesting that timber companies have driven quail from industrial timberlands with herbicides and insecticides. Read More »
Two Ways To Trout
RAINBOWS BITE FLIES, JIGS AT WHITE RIVER
LAKEVIEW — Most fishermen go with the flow when the generators are cranking at Bull Shoals Dam and the White River rages. Read More »
NWA FISHING REPORT
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Beaver Lake: Good fishing comes to those who wait, and the wait for better fishing is nearly over. Read More »
THE FLIP SIDE: Tailwater Benefits From Stimulus Cash
IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED BELOW BEAVER DAM
LITTLE ROCK — Some federal government stimulus money is on its way to stimulate the trout fishing below Beaver Dam. Read More »
Guides Share Crappie Tips
ANGLERS LEARN JIG, MINNOW TECHNIQUES
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — The water’s cold now, but crappie fishing at Beaver Lake will heat up with each warm day. Read More »
BRIEFLY
LITTLE ROCK — Prairie Grove Lake Opens Saturday Prairie Grove Lake will open for fishing on Saturday. Read More »
Goose Is Cooked In Stir Fry Recipe
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — In a state where mallards are revered, the mention of eating snow geese often draws a frown, a sneer, a scathing retort. Read More »
Fishing this week
LITTLE ROCK — HOT SPOTS 1. ARKANSAS RIVER (PINE BLUFF) Bream are biting well on wax worms and crickets. Crappie are biting well on pink/chartreuse jigs and minnows. Bass are biting well on Bomber crankbaits and black spinnerbaits. Catfishing is good on shad, skipjack and worms. Read More »
Shooting event for youths in NLR
LITTLE ROCK — The 11th annual Arkansas Junior Three-Position Air Rifle Championship will be held Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Fisher National Guard Armory in North Little Rock. John Horton, match director, said more than 100 shooters will compete in the event. Read More »
ARKANSAS SPORTSMAN: Leased land subject to alterations
LITTLE ROCK — One of the biggest perils of hunting on leased timberland is that you never know what the landowner will do to the property. Read More »
Albert Pike rainbows
Small trout on Little Missouri yield big-time fun
LANGLEY — Sometimes, a small patch of water delivers some big-fun fishing. Read More »
ARKANSAS SPORTSMAN: Exciting fishing action all over state right now
LITTLE ROCK — Multiple sources tell me that fish are biting. Read More »
ARKANSAS SPORTSMAN: Expect busy spring for sportsmen
LITTLE ROCK — A whole garden of outdoor opportunities are blooming this spring for sportsmen of all stripes. Read More »
Fishing this week
LITTLE ROCK — HOT SPOTS 1. ARKANSAS RIVER (LITTLE ROCK) Crappie fishing is fair using minnows fished under a slip-cork rig below Murray Lock and Dam. Bass fishing is fair on red crankbaits, and catfishing is fair on skipjack. Read More »