Crappie Article in Democrat Gazette by Brian Hendricks last week

[fishingbuddy]

Where is the "chute" under the bridge from Lake Maumelle that was referred to in the newspaper article "Cornering Crappie, Consensus opinion:Slabs haven't yet spawned" that was in the Gazette last week. Any opinions on when they will spawn??

[NIMROD]

Can't beleive they have not spawned.:rolleyes: The chute ,my guess is the one under #10 bridge.

[LazyJ]

I assumed he was talking about the bridge on the western end, that's the only "chute" that ever has any current.

Let's consider that picture of his fishing/drinking buddy, Mr Nosler, jumping the road between East Lake and Forked Bayou (which is trespassing unless they had permission which I'm sure they didn't since what landowner would want his already unstable road treated like that) should not have been published. I'll bet Mr Hendricks is wishing he'd stayed sober that day now that the landowner has picture proof of who is destroying his road. Irregardless, just makes sportsmen look like redneck idiots with total disregard for property, safety, and treading lightly on our natural resources. They didn't even catch any damn fish, you don't go to East Lake and get skunked unless you're soused. Send him packing DemGaz, put somebody in that column that won't embarrass me to claim to be an outdoorsman.

Crappie haven't spawned yet Mr Hendricks?
yeah, whatever

[ceb]

Hey J, I'm with you on this one. Dude has some problems if he's jumpin old farm roads to trespass on a lake...and publishing it in a widely read newspaper!!!

As far as the spawn goes, I hope that was a really small consensus. Sure, there maybe some males left guarding beds. But the peak spawn is over anyway you look at it...

[ClarendonRiverRat]

Not trying to sound off on you guys, but some of ya'll don't know anything about Forked or East Lake. I hunt and fish with Jimmy Nosler sometimes and know him well (he is family by marriage).

Jimmy was NOT trespassing onto Forked Lake. It is a public lake (within the North Unit) but access is limited by a PRIVATE road that leads to a field and deer camp (one that Jimmy is a member of) on the opposite side of the lake from the houses/cabins. The road is what seperates East Lake from Forked.

There are only 3 ways into Forked from East Lake by boat.
1. Go under the little concrete bridge when the water level is really LOW.
2. Go over the bridge during high water.
3. Between Low/High water levels you can drag across the road that seperates the two or jump it the way Jimmy did. I usually drag over when I fish it...which I have probably done a thousand times (my family has a cabin on east lake)

[Timmy Tom]

He jumped the road in his boat like James Bond did in that one movie?

TT

[winghunting]

I have to agree with ClarendonRiverRat. Forked lake is public water, and I am pretty sure it is a part of the White River Refuge. I have fished forked a bunch of times. He is right, when the water is right, you can go under the bridge. If not, the only way in there is to go across the road.

[ceb]

Sorry, I assumed that it was a private lake. So if I tipped the bottle enough to jump the road or go under the low bridge, would there be any legal consequences?

Either way you look at it...it's still pretty unresponsible to publish an article that supports jumpin' roads in a moving vessel...

[LazyJ]

My wife is a member of a family trust that leases three cabins, a hunting camp, and 2200 acres of beanland on East Lake. Jimmy's lease payments may be putting food on my table and the road might be "mine". Don't care, I haven't been over there in 10 years and I still get a good check every month.

Bottom line, Jimmy is tearing up somebody's road and I don't think it's his and why they published it in the state paper I'll never figure out. The article states he kept his PVC launching ramp hidden in the woods implying whoever owns the road isn't too keen on the idea.

Maybe Mr Bryan Hendrichs will publish a picture next week of one of his 4-wheeler buddies reaming out a mudhole on someone elses property or ripping up an Ozark stream. Can't stop people from doing it, I don't lose sleep over it, but please don't publish it in a statewide newspaper.