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I decided at the last minute to go for a little while Saturday morning. I started picking up a couple on the ledge at 16' almost on the bottom. It was very busy tending all of the poles. The yellow bass and little 1lb channel cats were tearing it up. It was a lot of fun even though the crappie weren't too hot. I ended up keeping 7 nice ones and probably released 10 or so smaller ones. I released somewhere around 10 channel cats ranging from 1/2lb to 1lb. Boat traffic became terrible about 9:00. There must have been a bass tourney because at one point 20 or so big bass boat shot out of the lock and half of em' headed up the little maumelle. It sure was nice spiderriggin and having all of those boats come within 35yds of me going full speed. I had to get out of there around 11:00, and caught a nice one about 10 minutes before I had to leave (sure was tough to pack it up).
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Chris - assume you were still fishing the mouth of the Little Maumelle? We went up the Little Maumelle Sunday morning, alternating fishing for crappir and bream. Caught a few bream...all very small. No crappie. Six or seven catfish on the small side that we threw back.
We fished until about 11 a.m. and oddly there almost no boat traffic.
Anybody ever fish the Little Maumelle up above the Pinnical Valley Bridge? There's a lot of timber there. I wonder if it's not better further up river?
J
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Yep J, I am still sticking to the same ol' spots. I am probably missing out on good fishing at other spots, but it is more efficient for me to hit those spots at the mouth of the creek. The crappie are very, very scattered at the moment. The number of small ones are also increasing.
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I would like to hear if you two did any good on Lake Maumel? I have been on that lake a couple of times. The only thing I caught was a sore butt bouncing off of the waves in my stick steer.
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Hey J -
What section of the river did y'all fish?
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DP -
I have only been out to Lake Maumelle 3x, and those have only been late afternoon/night fishing. We've had some fun out there and caught a lot of fish, but not the first crappie. We think that it may be the overpopulation of catfish. Gooch has had much better trips in the past, and he is more knowledgable about the lake. You definitely need to get you a map of the lake that shows all of the features. You can get one at Zimmerman's on S. University (the maps are behind the cash registers, next to the coke machine.
1st trip: Set up on the ledge of a hump close to the channel in 26' of water. Caught a big channel cat and 23 big white bass.
2nd trip: Set up on a sharp bend in the river channel. A couple of white bass, and that's it.
3rd trip: Set up on one of the old, inundated hwy 10 bridges. Caught a dozen or so gar and 1 nice cat.
P.S. You're right about the sore butt. It can get hellacious out there.
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Chris - we fished from the marina down to about halfway to the I-430 ramp. Then we went up to the Pinnacle Valley Road bridge and fished back down almost to the marina. I'm thinking that farther up beyond the Pinnacle Valley Road bridge might be better. Much more cover in the way of cypress trees, stumps, fall downs and such.
Hope all is well with you.
J
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DR Pepper just returned from vacation and saw your post on Lake Maumelle. Man the lake has been living up to its name as the dead sea this summer though I have not fished it as much this year due to boat and boat hauler problems. In fact the only three times I have fished it this summer have been with CEB as again I have been boatless. I will say I still hold out some hope for the place as we have yet to have a wind that is right for my best spot. I lost my gps to the depths of Lake Ouachita or I would give you the coordinates of my "spots". I have to tell you though my gps coordinates are about as good as my old little black book in that someone who knows what they are doing could do a heck of alot better with them than I can.
Hopefully things will slow down in my world soon and we will get some cooler weather and mabey we can get a few folks together for a nightstalk of sorts out there.
Take care
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