Thread: D'Arbonne this weekend.

I had a good trip myself to D'Arbonne and plan on going back one day. It's much different than the lakes I'm used to fishing. I fish clear water highland impoundments and seeing the bottom of the lake from 3ft to 20ft depending on which end of the lake you fish can have it's advantages. Where as fishing in water that's the color of Community coffee on the west end and chocolate milk on the east end.....well it was a change of pace. And it is rich in vegetation where my lakes have "Zero" vegetation.

Snapped a few photos with my phone and thought I'd share.

Oh and I met "Juicy" while on the water. Nice to meet you Juicy. If you ever venture up towards NW Arkansas, I can share some info with you.



This was the deal for me. It was a tough bite but I managed to get a couple out of the cypress trees. I arrived too late in the morning and the local traffic by 11AM was getting thick. I had a guy fling a spinnerbait to a tree next to me within 10ft of where I was fishing. I've turned off my graphs and trying to be as stealthy as possible and then the D-Day of spinnerbaits began bombing the area I was in.


Here's a nice fat 14" crappie. Caught it on a Shinee Hinee (Arkie Jigs)


My rig sitting in about 1.5ft of water and cypress trees. LOVE those cypress trees.


My rig at the 33 bridge. If I passed you in the channel.....my apologies.


Where I found all the fish. In the boat channels.
I found fish grouped up like this for hundreds of yards. Could not get them to bite. Caught one white bass (white perch) trolling a crankbait down to 14-15ft and it took me 200yds to get that bite.




Bass beds on side scan.
And I find it odd that beds are in 10ft of water? With water so dark that 2ft visibility at best? I saw bass on the beds on the sonar. Then I switched to sidescan and you can see all the little divots in the lake bed. Lots of beds.

Hey man I think I recognize all of those places. Definitely the group of cypress and tupelos, we caught one in there, looked awesome though. I saw much the same on my graph marked a lot of fish then spider rigged over them. Caught some but I don't know that I wouldn't have done just as good where the fish appeared not to be. At least I saw other people catching some where I didn't think I saw any. It was good talking to you. Maybe we can get together and fish Beaver some time. Very nice boat by the way.