Heared good things about horseshoe and Bear Creek. Im going to go try them at bear creek friday myself . ill give you a report afterwards. The lakes at village creek state park in wynne are supoosed to have some big bream too. but i havent been this year and last year only went once and had to weed through small ones to get to nicer ones. The north end of old town lake in wabash, ar is puttin out some monster shell crackers but it may be a little over your 2 hour drive from paragould.