Thread: Walleye's Or Trout in our cold water rivers.

Crappie Pro,

Please feel free to contact Tom Bly or Matt Schroeder at 1-877-470-3309. They manage Greers Ferry and would be able to give more in depth information then I could.

Sorry I couldnt be more help!!

I have caught several in the Saline River and the Ouachita River below both Carpenter and Remmel Dams. The AGFC stocks these ares yearly with around 14,000 fish. The problem you will run into on the Saline and below Remmel is if you dont have a jet you are limited to how far you can travel.

Originally Posted by slabsntaters

Rock, you could not be more correct, our Game and Fish could care less about what the people would like to see stocked in our waterways around the natural state. If it aint a trout, or a trout related issue then their interest is vague at best. i have said for many years if the AGFC would stock more of the sport species into our lakes and streams the natural state could have some of the best fishing in the United states. We have the lakes and stream to support some of the big time sport fish that draws revenue to many states. However rather than relying on revenue generated through sport fishing, Its easier to say we aint got the revenue to support these kind of stocking programs. Well this is how i see it, you have to spend money to make money, its like a buisiness, the initial investment is costly, but the rewards come from the effort put into it. If i could go bass fishing in The lakes of arkansas and Catch the Kind of Fish that they catch in Lake fork in Texas i would spend more money bass fishing, I had a friend who went to Kentucky lake bass fishing not long ago, They caught on average over 100 bass a day, and they had a average weight of three to four pounds. Tell me of a lake in arkansas that can do that. If a lake can produce bass like that, just imagine how the crappie fishing is, or maybe it has dinner plate sized Bream in it. Thats unheard of in the lakes of Arkansas.

I wish folks would not BASH the only resource for conserving our fish and game on this site, especially when they do not have a basis. As to the AGFC not stocking sport fish, look at the fish hateries the state runs, you have Corning (warm water), Hot Springs (warm/cool water) Spring River (cold water), and Lonoke (warm water). I know that at each of these hatcheries they do multiple species of fish, that all get stocked into the Natural State's lakes and stream. I also personall know a fisheries biologist that works extremely long hours in the early spring during the walleye spawn to make sure that there are fry/fingerlings to be stocked into the water of the state.

Please be more informed before going off and bashing the one and oly agency that protects/provides you with fish and game in this state.

Thank you and good night.

In my opinion, the AGFC is out of control. They make up whatever rules they want and do not answer to anybody. Look at how they have treated the people who hunt deer with dogs. I don't deer hunt with dogs, but I support hunters rights to do so. Yet they cater to coon hunters and bird hunters. It is discrimination. Where are the checks and balances?

If you disagree...

Please educate me on who is the watchdog for the AGFC?

If the AR legislature is supposed to be the watchdog, I don't remember seeing them in action.

Originally Posted by TreeMyDog

In my opinion, the AGFC is out of control. They make up whatever rules they want and do not answer to anybody. Look at how they have treated the people who hunt deer with dogs. I don't deer hunt with dogs, but I support hunters rights to do so. Yet they cater to coon hunters and bird hunters. It is discrimination. Where are the checks and balances?

If you disagree...

Please educate me on who is the watchdog for the AGFC?

If the AR legislature is supposed to be the watchdog, I don't remember seeing them in action.

THEY NEED TO ENFORCE DEER DOG REGULATIONS MORE , THE DEER DOG FOLKS AND THEIR RIDING AROUND PUBLIC LANDS WITH LOADED GUNS IS TAKING FROM THE STILL HUNTERS OPPERTUNITIES HERE. WHAT IS SPORTING ABOUT CHASING DEER WITH DOGS , USING TRACKING COLLARS, THEN HEADING THEM OFF FROM TRUCKS AND ATV'S? DO YOU CALL SHOOTING FROM A MOVING VEHICLE SPORTING? I DON'T , IT'S ILLEGAL BUT SELDOM ENFORCED HERE.
ARKANSAS IS ONE OF THE FEW STATES THAT ALLOW DEER DOGS IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Bull Shoals Lake in NW Arkansas is truning into a fine walleye fishery. I have fished walleye all summer, because crappie for me, in that deep water lake are just too hard to locate. I have located several walleye hotspots from the dam at Bull Shoals to the dam at Taneycomo. Went last week and fished all day and landed 6 nice walleyes and 3 green carp, and a lot of slab bluegills. There is a rearing pond at Diamond City and walleye are stocked in the lake from there. Sometimes stocked inadvertently when the water comes up over the rearing pond. Give Bull Shoals a try you may be pleasently surprised. You will need a map of the lake to locate the optimal depth that walleyes like which is between 20 and 40 feet. You can catch them with worms, spoons, crankbaits, trolling, flatlining etc.

Nimrod, I think you missed my point. I don't support road hunters.
I do support people who want to hunt with dogs. That's part of MY heritage.
I don't support, and will not support, a ban on hunting with dogs.
What I DO support is any sportsman's right to enjoy the outdoors in whatever way they choose, as long as they are not unfairly harming the resource.
I don't do a bunch of trotlining or yo-yoing either, but there are people who, if given the opportunity, would legislate away the right to do these things, simply because they do not agree with the practice.
We are slowly losing our freedom. That is MY POINT.
Why does Camp Robinson WDA cater to folks who enjoy hunting birds with dogs but the AGFC is quick to drop the boom on deer dog hunting?
How have we come to the place where the AGFC has the right to arbitrarily make these rules, with no system of checks and balances?
THAT IS MY BIGGER POINT.
If we continue to allow the AGFC to make these rules with no oversight,
IN 20 YEARS, we will look back and say,
"REMEMBER WHEN WE USED TO".... (insert YOUR favorite activity).
I don't intend to discuss the merits of any particular activity here.
This is about our right to the pursuit of happiness as Americans.
My original point was... The AGFC is out of control and I am not aware of any system of checks and balances to keep them in line with the will of the people.

There are a number of outstanding walleye streams in the state: White River below Lock 3, Spring River below Many Islands, the Eleven Point River, the Current River, the lower part of the Little Red River, parts of Black River, and tributaries of the above. Basically walleye (or jack salmon which is what they were called around here when I was a boy) and sauger are naturally occurring in the White River drainage, at least from the Little Red River up. You can catch them above the points I mentioned, but there are a lot more of them down.

As to deer dogs, there is no one who enjoyed deer hunting with dogs more than I did, but when you set up a spot for deer hunting, pattern it, maybe put out food plots or feeders or both, put up deer stands, etc., there is nothing that will screw up your deer and hunting more than some dogs coming through. Kind of like a guy's right to swing his fist ends when it hits my nose, nobody has a right to run dogs across my place. Since dogs don't know where property lines are, there is no way to run them without trespassing on a lot of folks' land and mess up their hunting. It's not like the old days when nothing was posted or really set up for still hunting.