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You are right, brgolden, this is a good board. You'll be hard pressed to find a better bunch of fishermen. Most are just happy to share experiences with fellow crappie chasers. Thanks a bunch for joining in. I hope you have a ball here, as well as on the lake. :)
Welcome to the board brgolden, from lower Arkansas.
lived in hamburg all my life ,family is orginally from wilmot. right now however I am in fayetteville working on my Phd. Its a different kinda fishing up here in this clear water.
I grew up fishing grand, paradise, enterprise, wilson, and chicot. with about 90 % of my time fishing Grand and enterprise. when the bite turns on it can be magical. I can remeber in the mid 90's when we would have to stop fishing because we were tired. Many fish have been caught in grand that would stick out of a 5 gallon bucket by a couple of inches.
My father in law also has a real nice camp on grand. the one with the magical dock alluded to by a previous poster
....and good luck on your doctoral program. I know what that is about! Kindly forgive me, but I earned mine at (ahem!!) LS&U!
I look forward to fishing your Grand Lake. I have fished Wilson a few times in Oct. and Nov. I did not do well; still need to practice, I reckon. I don't know where Paradise is. If/when you are home for a break from the academic world, good luck fishing SE AR!
bryo I was going to go to LSU for my PHD, but the prof I was going to work for retired, and since my field is rice fertility, LSU and Arkansas are the only two places I would think about going, so I stayed here for the doctorate.
Growing up were I did 5 miles from louisiana, I have just as much allegiance to LSU as I do arkansas. We had to go to Monroe for anything we needed that we couldn't get at wal mart.
Paradise is a place in the old river around lake village
i usually fish chicot but i also fish paradise and lake lee when the river gets right. i think we are taking the camper down this weekend and i am ready to go.
Go gettum! If you would, please post us any report that you have of the Chicot-Grand Lake area. Much appreciated. Glad to see the crappie fishing interest in the SE part of AR. Looking forward to joining you folks up there real soon.
the fish are biting if you can stand the wind and have a huge bilge. my wifes cousin got a limit at chicot, but sunk his boat. grand was ok but it was dock fishing, to windy to put the boat in the water
i have not gotten to go yet but i have relatives down there fishing this week. i heard a good report out of lake washington over in mississippi.