Thread: Some pictures of the structure we added to the pool this past weekend

Thanks for your repley Jeremy.:D

Just wish someone would respond to my questions about private landowners using WMA lands. The Commission knows about it and the lower level folks refuse to talk about it. The main office will not respond as it's been asked. The sports writer for the state paper has been sent the info and will not respond either. Pretty sad when politics let some rich folks do as they please with state lands and poor working stiff are bound by the same laws they are allowed to break.

Looks like alot of folks didnt make it to drop the structure so you should probably just post all the coordinates.:D Those look great and should hold alot of fish.

Originally Posted by gabowman

Looks like alot of folks didnt make it to drop the structure so you should probably just post all the coordinates.:D Those look great and should hold alot of fish.

Gaboaman, you ain't the first to say that, there is no gps coordinates, we sank them structures at night, I only use the star constellations as a guide, a person wanting to find them would have to be familar with the stars to find them and log them on gps. :D

Hey Slab - With all the structure you guys dropped, How could you not find it. It would be like the blind hog and acorn story. I think I could find some of it with my can-string-sparkplug method. Like I said I cant wait to get down there and lose a 1/2 dozen jigs . See you soon!
BillyE

Originally Posted by Billy E

Hey Slab - With all the structure you guys dropped, How could you not find it. It would be like the blind hog and acorn story. I think I could find some of it with my can-string-sparkplug method. Like I said I cant wait to get down there and lose a 1/2 dozen jigs . See you soon!
BillyE

Billy E come on down, the fishing should be getting hot by now, the wood structures should be starting to hold fish now, the PVC wont be far behind it, it just has to slime over. I spider rig to find the structures, My gps went on the fritz and I lost all of the coordinates, I am buying a new gps before the weekend and I am going to log every single peice of structure in the pool I can find, new and old. So maybe next week I will have the coordinates for the structures without having to hunt for it with a spider rig. The worst thing that happens in the pool is, I see alot of people that dont pick their anchors up when they move their boats around and they get tangled in the structures and drag them away from the spot they were sunk at.

They stocked floridas in mallard lake up here in the northeast corner. Cant get much further north without getting in mo. They also killed the fish in big lake to plant millet for the durn ducks.

the big problem with mallard lake or was and i'm guessing it still is they would drain the lake and kill the fish and then pump it back up by pumping out of the muck ditch. what they were doing is pumping it back full of shad which is the big reason they've had to drain it so many times. it's your tax money at work less brains. there's a move in the ark senate now to get passed a law that would take away the game and fish's woodypeckerwoods power to over see it'self. i think a few years of setting them back in a corner would help. and another thing is select the commissioners in other ways other than how much they have donated to the cause. the cause being who got elected. it is a bought position.

Sorry to hi jack your post, slabsntaters.

Dink Catcher,

You are correct that Florida Largemouth Bass were stocked in the Mallard Lake. They were stocked before the last renovation. Since then, no Florida largemouth bass have been stocked. We do stock northern strain largemouth bass in there. Big Lake is controlled and managed by the UFWS and we don’t have any saying in the management of the fisheries in Big Lake. The draw down at Big Lake might actually help the fish left in the lake by increase the available food supply making them healthier going into this winter.

Olduckhunter,

You are correct, after the renovation, the lake was pumped back up from adjacent ditch. However, the revovation was conducted becuase of the yellow bass. The fish populations are looking good in the lake right now and should continue into the future.

If you have any question about fish management in NE Arkansas, call me (Jeremy Risley) or Sam Henry at 877-972-5438.

Again, sorry to hi-jack this post.

Jeremy