Oxbow thoughts

I don't think Ron is in our family, or at least I've never met him.

It's been a while since I've fished Tunica but if I remember correctly when the river stage a Memphis is 8ft, water can flow into the cutoff. When the stage is steady at 14ft there is ample water in the willows to crappie fish. My experience with Tunica has been an all or nothing deal. Either they're going to be hot and you'll get your 50 easy or you won't get a bite. As for the stilts, you did notice all those trailers were inside the levy, lol. You were probably at Kingstons. Watch out for that ramp, very steep. If you buy minnows at Kingstons the magic number is 3 dozen and you'll probably get 5, lol. They have a great t-bone at the restaurant/bar too.

Tunica cutoff has had a wier put in at the runout. This wier prevents the cutoff from flushing like a big toilet. The lowest notch is at 4 feet the highest is 16'.

14' you can fish all the major structure. At 16 you can go really deep into the standing timber...

Oh the minnow count aint what it used to be ...now all the baitshops sell you exactly what you pay for...no more 5 dz for the price of 3.

The reason for the stilts is HIGH water the 73 flood went about half way up the levee. last years flood the water got over the top of the ramp by 50 yards.

Charlies Camp has the widest and best ramp to put in regardless of weather.

CarpPoop- Go to this site and oder the fishing information. I did and there is a map in the back that shows and tells about all of the OxBow lakes or a lot of them in Arkansas. Goods site to look over to. Ron



http://www.arkansas.com/helpful-info/free-vacation-kit/

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Originally Posted by CarpPoop

I wander this. Lets say a river gets into an oxbow once it reaches a certain level. I have heard people say that crappie get replenished into the oxbow and thus the fishing is good. Obviously fish would come into the oxbow but I would think that the majority of fish swimming out in the main channel of the mississippi would be carp, catfish, gar, buffalo, and drum. I would think the game fish in the river would live more up in creeks. But im not a biologist. Does anyone who fishes oxbow lakes notice more crappie after the river gets into it for ahwile? Or is the fishing about the same only with higher water levels?

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HELLO im not an expert but i fish a few ox bows near memphis and from my experience any the river comes in i wait for slow fall usually they bite like crazy for about a month. I think a lot of river crappie come in to get out of current. I have fished on the river behind dikes and caught some hawgs,they have shoulders from fighting current.But thats risky.jim