Bull Shoals Lake Nursery Pond

We've had several anglers asking about the Bull Shoals Lake Nursery Pond located in the West Sugarloaf Arm of the lake. We currently have crappie in there. We stocked 200 broodstock crappie in the pond in March. We have been checking the size of the fingerlings over the past two months. It appears there was an excellent spawn in the pond and the young crappie look great. They are ranging in size from 1 3/4' to 3" as of 6/16. We should be releasing the pond in the fall. I also attached an article about the pond that was in this week's AGFC Arkansas Outdoors newsletter http://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/...lake/11032083/
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Hybrid food!:yikes

We need all who can catch a bass at the release point in the fall putting a whacking on the bass that will eat our babies.

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Thanks for the information Jeremy. We don't hear very much about crappie up that direction.

I use to throw all the green carp back. Now I throw them on the GRILL!

How far will those crappie migrate from the nursery pond? Is there regular crappie stockings on Norfork and Bull Shoals?

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Originally Posted by concreteman

How far will those crappie migrate from the nursery pond? Is there regular crappie stockings on Norfork and Bull Shoals?

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They have been known to travel five miles in a day. Who knows how far they will travel over their lifetime. :dono

We stock crappie from the Bull Shoals Nursery pond for two years then we raise a crop of walleye. For Norfork, we just stock straight from the truck at various ramps around the lake. We mainly raise walleye in the Lake Norfork Nursery Pond.

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Originally Posted by Cmj

They have been known to travel five miles in a day. :dono

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I've heard this too, but I suspect that they were in Crappie Pro's live well when this happened:Rofl