Thread: arkansas river central ar

Originally Posted by CrappiePro

The river is full of crappie. There have been many posts from it to include the Little Rock area/Conway area. Search back water areas, tributary's, Parlarm Creek, Maumelle creek, Maumelle river, Cadron creek, Toadsuck park, Murray park Plumerville cutoff, and many many more have yielded legendary catches over the years. They also love the down stream side of those many rock jetty's along the river. River crappie are here today and gone tomorrow. There is allot of water out there to cover...but you can find them and when you do they usually give you a few weeks at least of great fishing. Good Luck...There are some big Ole Slabs in that river you can bet on it.

Thanks a bunch for the advise, exactly the answer i was lookin for.

I have two buddies who bass fish the Arkansas River at Toadsuck just outside Conway all the time. They are 100% bass fishermen only, but they say that every time they go out they see people just killing it around the western park boat launch in the little cove and rock jetty. One guy is a serious tournament fisherman with some expensive electronics on his boat and he says he sees all kinds of fish there when he launches. He doesn't care about chasing anything but the largemouths and covering as much water as he can so I can't speak to his experience crappie jigging it there, but he's always told me I should try that area.

I've know an old gentalman that was a great bass fisherman in his younger years that has constantly fished only down stream sides of jetties in the LR pool with a spinning rod and double jig rigs. He ALWAYS has crappie in his freezer. Say's the key is cold water and low flow.

Well we have the cold water part, i was out yesterday am temp ranged 38.6 to 39.8. Lots of shad.

Any catches?

Didnt get a bite. On water for about 3 hrs.

We have had mixed results on river and fish it quite a bit. Skunked some days, four or five others. In the fall/early winter we have caught them stacked and fill boat, they where nice fish too, 1.5 to 2 lb fish.