Going to Hot Springs

**Fish Slapped** · 11-09-2011, 03:00 PM

My wife and I are going to spend a couple of days in a Hot Springs cabin next weekend. We're taking the boat since she loves to fish. I'd like to get her into a mess of crappie. But I have only fished Hamilton a couple of times on my own for bass and once for crappie with Daryl a few years ago. So I don't know where to start. Any pointers for Hamilton? Or would I be better off driving from there to one of the surrounding lakes (Ouchita, Greeson, or DeGray)? Any advice that would help me put her on fish would be greatly appreciated. As I have come to understand, "Happy wife, happy life."

**MEATGETTER** · 11-09-2011, 07:32 PM

sorry i cannt help i dont fish any of those!!!!

**creekslick** · 11-09-2011, 09:30 PM

I was on Ouchita a couple weeks ago and it was bad slow.

**Slab Junkie** · 11-09-2011, 09:46 PM

Finding brush piles on Hamilton is a breeze. Just hit the larger creeks and pockets and idle around watching the sonar. There are lots them and many will hold crappie.

**Fish Slapped** · 11-10-2011, 09:27 AM

Thanks for the advice Slab Junkie! We're staying over near Treasure Isle. Is there a good place to put in near there?

**Slab Junkie** · 11-10-2011, 04:24 PM

There's a ramp right on Treasure Isle Rd just off of Hwy 270.

**rtark** · 11-10-2011, 06:02 PM

If I had my druthers, Id druther fish Greeson from what Pictures I have seen from there. Ouichita would be my second druther. I know that lake from Little fir to big fir pretty good and I would go to 19. There is big brush piles off most of those points about 20-25' deep. Then I would go into 3 fingers and find those piles.

**Fish Slapped** · 11-11-2011, 10:22 AM

Well now I have a delima. Maybe I'll try more than one lake.

**Fish Slapped** · 11-11-2011, 11:06 AM

I'm not familiar with Ouachita. I looked at a map and found Big and Little Fir. But I don't see 3 fingers?

**rtark** · 11-11-2011, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Fish Slapped

I'm not familiar with Ouachita. I looked at a map and found Big and Little Fir. But I don't see 3 fingers?

It is just off the river between the 2 firs. They are the 3 large bays that run off to the north from where the river makes that big horseshoe. It may not have that name on the map but everyone calls it 3 fingers. Go to this map and look just to the right of ebony point. I don't like the crystal clear water down at the big lake area. Don't get lost out there, it happens.
Lake Ouachita Map

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