Big bream/where

I'd go bear creek. I've been catching some nice red ears down there the past 3 weeks. Attachment 94130

Ouachita has some really nice red ear but it sure ain't close to Jonesboro. Me and X-Ring tied into a few of them a couple of weeks ago while he was camped down here but we never could find a good concentration of them in one spot. They sure are a hoot to catch and don't eat too bad either.

Constructskeeter, are you new to the Hot Springs area?

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Originally Posted by constructskeeter

I sure didn't find them with the full moon like everyone says back start of this month?? I never really went on that whole moon thing but I was out on Hamelton a week before the full moon only to find empty beds and no bream. The following week, week of full moon I set lines for cats on the infamous Degray with very little success imagine that and decided to mix in some full moon night time bassin and bream fish in the daylight. Talked to 2 different guys who said the bream weren't doing it and the bass fishing was marginal with as usual only small ones.
So given that my efforts for bream haven't been good but I'm about ready to start chasing them and crappie again. We shall see if this moon things works later this month like say last few days in the month and 1st few of Aug. when it's full again. As for the fishing I sure hate this new area around Hot Springs! I don't remember seeing much water up towards Jonesboro but only been up there one time in my life. Hope you find em, I'll be looking myself.

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Ok, explain to me the theory concerning bream and the moon phase. Heard about it but never paid much attention, but the way they are biting (not) at Horseshoe right now, Maybe I need to fully understand it!:dono

very nice redear!

Yeah it was a nice redear. I moved to the HS area just after the 1st of the year to answer someones question. As for the moon phase I've read about where it's linked to better fish activity not only the bream but bass and other fish too. I know some folks that bank on the whole moon thing but this is the 1st time i've ever tried to pattern things around it. George Graves the guy who gives the weekly fishing report for the AGF website said last full moon bream fishing should pick up around the full moon, well sure didn't see it. Something about the lunar cycle and gravity vs barometric pressures.
Whatever it is I sure hope the fishing gets better this time around. I think we are going to Magic Springs this evening but bright and early tomorrow morning I'm thinking of being on Hamelton for the crappie, if it has many in it. I've really only been on it twice crappie fishing but I've yet to catch a single crappie. I marked a lot of brush the other night when bass fishing it that was in deeper water and the map I have shows where flooded timber is so maybe those area's will have something to offer. Maybe someone else can tell us about the moon phases and how they effect fishing, cause I'm kinda still in the dark myself on it.

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I'd go bear creek. I've been catching some nice red ears down there the past 3 weeks. Attachment 94130

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With hot weather the Bear Creek bream and shellcrackers go deep; you'll catch bunch, just not as big as in early-mid May. Try fishing deeper just off the old beds. Do you use worms for the 'crackers or stick with crickets?

No tilapia in hogue.

We had to discontinue the tilapia stocking due to the increase price of purchasing the tilapia.

I grew up on Hamilton. Not fished it in many years since I moved away but living on Long Island I was on the water every day. Here's what it was like back then. Man Made Structure!!! If you were not out sinking brush, you just don't catch fish. Well, at least not like the rest of us. Good news is that you can find some brush by hitting boat docks. You would be amazed but more often than not when the houses were built on this the owners would instruct the crews to dump all trees in the water for crappie. Since summer is here go find boat docks in about 20 foot of water and look around for brush. From right beside the dock to casting distance. You'll find some. Also, any time you can line up a bird house with a chimney drive toward it, deep to shallow. You'll find brush. Lol

That lake has become so popular anymore and being fully surrounded by seawall, when I go back there to visit all my family and friends I go to ouachita.