Northwest Arkansas Outdoors
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River Meets Lake
NATURE UNFOLDS DURING UPSTREAM TRIP
FAYETTEVILLE — It’s easy to see why this watery, isolated wonderland is Mike McBride’s favorite spot. Continue reading...
THE FLIP SIDE: Less Travel For Ducks, Bald Eagles
MILD WINTER MEANS SHORTER MIGRATION
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — It could be a long search to find anyone who doesn’t enjoy basking in the warmth of this easy winter. Continue reading...
Commission Offers Anonymous Texting
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission is offering a new way to anonymously report outdoor-related violations to the agency’s enforcement division agents. Continue reading...
OUTDOORS: Briefly
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Roger Harp and Ed Young won the Beaver Lake Winter Series championship on Sunday with six bass that weighed 25.64 pounds. They had the tournament’s big bass at 7.1 pounds. Continue reading...
NWA FISHING REPORT
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Beaver Lake: Wintertime bass fishing remains strong, reports Aaron Jolliff at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Continue reading...
Fishing this week
LITTLE ROCK — HOT SPOTS 1. LAKE CONWAY The water is stained and at normal level. Bream fishing is excellent using worms and crickets. Crappie are biting well on jigs and pink minnows in Gold and Caney creeks. Bass fishing is excellent using shad-colored spinnerbaits in Pierce Creek. Catfishing is excellent using minnows and stinkbait hung from yo-yos in the Brandon Landing area. Continue reading...
Tour title taken from Contador
GENEVA — Three days after U.S. prosecutors dropped their investigation of doping claims against Lance Armstrong, fellow Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 title when sports’ highest court rejected the Spanish cyclist’s story that Continue reading...
Nutrient Cycle, Aquatic Food-Web Management Crucial To Village Lakes
BELLA VISTA — The University of Arkansas is beginning its second year of a three-year research project on Bella Vista’s Lakes Brittany, Norwood and Rayburn.
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Smallmouth joy
Caddo River brings thrills and satisfaction
GLENWOOD — Unrestrained joy. That’s what I felt overflowed when I saw the size of the brawny smallmouth bass as it rocketed from the icy waters of the Caddo River Every year, I join a friend I call “The Instigator” for a midwinter fishing trip on the Caddo River between Caddo Gap and Glenwood. For years, this was one of my favorite spring and summer haunts, but in recent years I’ve discovered how good it fishes in cold weather. The smallmouth bass are almost always big, fat and surprisingly aggressive, and in winter there’s almost never anyone else on the river. You can fish all day and not see another soul. Continue reading...
Hunters favor eliminating flood-prone zones
LITTLE ROCK — Thirty-three people attended the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s public meeting in Little Rock Tuesday to discuss proposed regulations for 2012. Continue reading...
In All Its Glory
RAIN BRINGS STUNNING WATERFALL TO LIFE
FALLSVILLE — The formidable force of water is no more evident than at the Glory Hole waterfall, hidden deep into the folds of the Ozark National Forest in Newton County. Continue reading...
THE CAT SIDE: Groundhog Faces Competitor
CAT COLUMNIST HAS OWN FORECAST
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Howdy. Punxsutawney Boat Dock here wishing all of you out in readership land a happy Groundhog Day. Continue reading...
Squirrel Hunt A February Challenge
KEYS TO HUNTING SMALL GAME INCLUDE PATIENCE, STILLNESS, USING SENSES
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — With deer season done for gun toters and duck outings finished, most Arkansas hunters have hung it up for the year. Continue reading...
Course To Explore Nature Topics
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — “The Nature Around Us,” a six-hour course, will be taught from 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 9, 16 and 23 at College at the Crossing, 1801 Forest Hills Blvd. in Bella Vista. Continue reading...
NWA FISHING REPORT
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Beaver Lake: If the groundhog sees his shadow today, does it mean six more weeks of good fishing? Continue reading...
