Northwest Arkansas Fishing Report
Last updated Monday, December 1, 2008 4:23 PM CST in Outdoors
By THE MORNING NEWS
Editor's Note: Flip Putthoff, who compiles the area fishing report, is on vacation. This is last week's report.
Beaver Lake: Black bass and striped bass are keeping rods bent at Beaver Lake.
Aaron Jolliff at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said black bass are hitting crank baits and spinner baits along chunk-rock banks, wind-blown banks and transition areas.
Crawdad or fire-tiger are good crank bait colors. Go with a white or chartreuse spinner bait.
Bob Bauer at Lost Bridge Marina said striper fishing is good on top-water lures from Point 4 to the dam. The mouth of Indian Creek is a good place to fish.
Try morning fishing, but stripers have hit at all times of day.
Bill Pope at Hickory Creek Marina said black bass are hitting crank baits worked along chunk rock banks. Lures with yellow or green in the color scheme are working best.
Stripers are biting near any bend in the channel near a point. Pope said stripers are coming in from Horseshoe Bend to as far upstream as the Arkansas 45 bridge.
Use shad or brood minnows 10 to 25 feet deep.
Trolling Roadrunners or umbrella rigs are also effective for stripers, he said.
Catfish are biting cut bait.
Jason Piper at J.T. Crappie Guide Services said crappie are biting well around brush piles located close to creek channels.
Crappie have been suspending over the piles 10 to 15 feet deep and hitting chartreuse jigs or curly-tail grubs.
Fish around standing timber in coves close to the creek channel. Good places to fish have been Monte Ne, Horseshoe Bend and Prairie Creek.
White River below Beaver Dam: Jessi Eardley at the Beaver Dam Store said trout are biting well on pink or orange Power Bait.
The top lures are micro jigs, countdown Rapalas and gold spoons. Productive flies include Copper Johns, pheasant-tails, woolly buggers, scuds and sowbugs.
Lake Fayetteville: Dollie Black at Lake Fayetteville said no one is fishing.
Lake Sequoyah: Jackie Smith at Lake Sequoyah boat dock said black bass fishing is good on plastic worms. The lake is clear and at normal level.
Lake Elmdale: Lucky Key at Duck Camp Fishing Retreat said few people are fishing.
Try jig and pigs for black bass. A black/blue rattling jig with a black pork frog is the best Lake Elmdale rig, he said. Key prefers a one-quarter-ounce jig.
Bella Vista: No report this week. Last week's report indicated black bass were biting jig and pigs and shaky-head worms. Boats cannot be launched at Loch Lomond due to the drawdown.
Trout fishing is good at Lake Brittany.
SWEPCO Lake: Kenny Stroud at the Siloam Springs Walmart said black bass fishing is fair and improving.
Try finesse worms or Zoom Baby Brush Hogs on a shaky-head rig.
Work wind-blown points with a spinner bait or crank bait.
Illinois River, Flint Creek: Stroud suggests tube baits or dark-green hair jigs for smallmouth bass.
Upper Table Rock Lake: J.D. Fletcher at Devil's Dive Resort said black bass fishing is good with crawdad-colored crank baits.
Jeff Fletcher and Bill Dorothy caught 20 black bass, including nine keepers to 5 pounds, on Monday with crawdad-colored Model A Bombers. They were fishing in coves.
Eastern Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation reports fair crappie fishing at Lake Eucha on jigs and minnows around brush and structure 14 to 16 feet deep.
At Grand Lake, black bass are hitting buzz baits worked shallow. Jigs and crank baits are also productive. Catfish are good on shad or goldfish 30 feet deep.
At Lake Tenkiller, largemouth bass are hitting top-water lures or spinner baits early.
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