Thread: Millwood Lake

Millwood's been recognized quite a few times for big crappie by national magazines like In Fisherman. One of my coworkers' families does a week long camp out at Millwood Lake State Park during spring to catch crappie. DeQueen is also close to Lake Greeson, which is another lake known for some good crappie fishing (Lots of planted brush pile coordinates available at agfc.com, click on GIS Mapper and zoom in to the lake to get the coordinates.)

Great! I wish Texas had a program like that. I sure appreciate the input.

Both lakes have lots of good crappie. Be careful on millwood...it can be dangerous...very big and shallow...storms make it bad quick. Greeson is awsome. LOTS of crappie condos thanks to Jerry and Darryl and AGFC. You will also be close to Dierks Lake which has quite a few good crappie although the lake is lessor known...its one of the prettiest lakes around imho. If you get to Dequeen you are really surrounded by good lakes. I live about 30 minutes east of their in Nashville.

Yeah Dequeen, Gillham, and Dierks all have big crappie in limited numbers. I caught bigger ones off Dequeen this year but didn't get to fish Dierks much either. I've not had much luck on Little River but I've heard it can produce big crappie if you hit it right. I've set brush on those Tri-lakes but it still didn't produce many....think i need bigger piles next time but that's a Winter project if our lakes ever open back up??? As far as I know all these lakes are shut down due to ramps closed still. Myself and a few others may be about to remedy that issue though. Now Greeson is one of the deep, clear water lakes that only the very few SAY they can catch fish. I go to Pine Creek Lake over in OK if that tells you anything and I grew up trying to catch crappie on those lakes.

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it.

Almost forgot if fishing on Dequeen a man named Slim Mann is the crappie expert. Me and Slim sank a couple together but he's got way more sank than I do, and way bigger too. Course he lives down by the dam and gets to fish every other day just about. He puts his time in out there that's for sure, good guy and if Slim says it you can just about take it to the bank. Now Dequeen did have a big fish kill back in the Spring that between me and Slim asking the local wardens all we got was it was due to eggs dried up inside them crappie which neither one of us had ever heard of???

skeeter, do you live in Dequeen?? I have fished Dierks more than any. I know up the channel in the stickups are good producers but there is a shallow water marker around the bend before you get to Jefferson Ridge that ALOT of crappie have been caught around. There is a good edge there they seem to hang around.

Yeah they catch em all out around the old railroad tram up river in those stickups you mentioned. As for the shallow marker location I know there's a big shallow flat due South East of the yield sign/point at J. Ridge. Then if you make that sharp bend around the J. Ridge Pt headed North the very next turn to the right there's another shallow flat that runs out we sank brush off of....hung it on some stumps when the lake was low. We also pulled brush out on the shallow hump that's marked just as you hit the main brush line going up river. I think that day last Winter when the water was low we sank 9 different places. I just didn't ever get to fish them much. I heard they tore em up early in the Spring one day, so next day we was over there and a front had hit and not only did we not catch em but neither did my buddy that had caught em day before. We saw 4 other groups at the J. Ridge cleaning station that evening and only 2 of them had fish, like 2 or 3 was all! It can be tough over there. I spoke to the guy that cleans out the scraps and he told me Dequeen had been having the bigger crappie all Spring and Summer other than a couple weeks in the Spring Gillham had some really good ones which I told him I put the knife to a few of them he spoke of during that time, lol. Two other places I've heard are good are White Oak, which I've fished without success and Broken Bow which I've yet to crappie fish much given past experience with the deep clear waters. Come this Winter up until early Summer though that Pine Creek over in OK will produce good numbers and rather than chase a handful in an all day event we just head over there and knock out at least one limit if not 2 limits in half a day.