Peckerwood Lake

[E fan]

When is it going to be open ( Red Barn )I know Duck season is finally over and it usually opens the second weekend after.

[L.A. stumpjumper]

Welcome to the board E fan, I don't know exactly when it opens but that sounds right. I hope to get up there to fish sometimes. It seemed pretty hot this fall before it closed for duck season.

[E fan]

It's open for business but I don't think I'll be staying the night with the camper


$7.50 a day to fish

$20.00 for tent campers per night

$30.00 for a camper per night

Think we'll just do what we can all nighters get off work drive down tie them up and fish them till daylight the next morning then go home

[gooch]

Makes me sick that thats an AGFC lake and they charge what they do to fish it. The lake was built in the 50's by the state but cause that A%& Lyons owns the land surrounding the lake he controls the right of way.

He is the same dude who years ago got busted with all his rich buddys blasting the ducks and just letting them lay. Sure hope his use and abuse of the little guy and our natural resources catches up with him someday.

[NIMROD]

I did'nt know that was built by G&F . How come it was built with no public access? I always thought the lake was owned privately?

[blairarnold]

It is not a G & F lake. It is privately owned. Edgar Queeny who owned Monsanto bought the land and built it. Lyon bought his land (probably including the lake) from Queeny's estate.

[gooch]

I may be wrong, I am most of the time. However I just called a buddy who owns a farm in the area and he confirmed what I have heard all my life and that is this. Peckerwood was built in the 40's by the Corp's of Engineers with tax payer money. And yes most of the land surrounding the lake was owned by Edgar Queeny however as the lake was built by the Corp's it was state property and still is.

There have been numerous lawsuits about the issue concerning the AGFC ability to enforce there regulations on that lake as the defense was raised that as it was a "pay" lake that the state regulations did not apply. Apparently the courts ruled that it was not a "pay" lake as the money paid to Lyons was for access to the lake, not for fishing the lake as it was again an AGFC lake.

I will try and do some reasearch next week and see if I can look up some of the legal opinions that have been handed down on the issue and post it back here.

Either way its in my opinion the best crappie fishery that Arkansas has bar none. Wish I had a camper and I would go ahead and pay the 120.00 a month and move it down there till May or June.

If you get out that way post us some pics of those Arkansas county slabs.

It is not a G & F lake. It is privately owned. Edgar Queeny who owned Monsanto bought the land and built it. Lyon bought his land (probably including the lake) from Queeny's estate.

[randybenham]

In looking through some of the stuff I have, I cannot find where peckerwood is considered a AGFC lake. If you go to the G&F website, it's not listed as a gf lake. I can't get any info form the COE website on the lake either, so I'm not sure if it is a corp lake. Usually, the gf lakes are published on the agfc website, and I can't find anything on it. doesn't make it not true, but sounds sort of private based on this evidence.

[Maddoxbay]

Text taken from the DELTA FARM PRESS Jan 13, 2006 12:00 PM, By Wayne Capooth
http://deltafarmpress.com/mag/farmin...memory_brings/

"In the early 1930s, a man named Edgar Queeny drove a trailer down to Arkansas for duck hunting. Hunting with Tippy LaCotts on Mill Bayou near DeWitt, he was introduced to Arkansas duck hunting and the legendary Jess Wilson, one of Arkansas's best duck callers and hunting guides. After several years of living in a trailer while hunting, Mrs. Queeny told Edgar that if she was to continue hunting, he was going to have to do better than a trailer.

So Queeny hooked up with Roger Crowe, Stuttgart businessman, who found some land on LaGrue Bayou near Roe in 1939. Queeny then formed an irrigation company, and through imminent domain gobbled up 11,000 acres, which didn't win him any friends. A levee was built, forming the 4,000-acre Peckerwood Lake in 1942, and at Wingmead, he built his 8,000 square-foot, colonial-style mansion."

The lake is a Irrigation Resivore owned by the Farm Wingmead.