oxbows

with the various types of water in arkansas i'd like to specifiy things a bit. not that the deep impoundments aren't interesting to me, but i fish oxbows primarily, in addition to the mississippi river. thus, an oxbow-related thread is needed.

for those of you in this neighborhood, what's working for you now?

presently, i'm running yo-yo's on a private oxbow on family land. it's formed by bayou bartholomew, and is about 300 feet wide and a mile long. plenty of cypress and the typical "old" channel.

crappie are ssssllllllloooow. course, it's summer in these parts. i've got deep water but the fish won't bite. fished everydamnwhere. catfish are great on the minnows, but the crappie are slow.

so what are the other oxbowmen/women doing?

cheers,

sv-

Dear Sidvicious, I also favor Ms. River oxbows where the deepest water you can find is less than 10-15ft. Until the water cools to under 50 degrees or so I often tear them up fishing in the deepest water I can find, about a foot off the bottom.

Oxbows are just about all I fish in. I fish on oxbows from the Mississippi, White, and St. Francis rivers in east Arkansas.

I have had good luck all summer long with a black and green jig fishing treetops in the deeper parts of the lake (8 – 10).

The whites are stacking up on the tops right now in Maddox Bay.

I'm on the west side of the state. I fish on beaver lake. Caught 7 yesterday p.m. Using minnows 7' deep in about 10 feet of water. Has been a little slow, but i've been catching fish all summer.

I fish Midway and White Hall, very hard to find any deep water...looks like next week will start cooling down.

Crappieman101,

We were at whithall two weeks ago and done ok.

We were fishing jigs and found crappie in water from 1 – 8 feet of water. Several were buried up deep in the thick stuff. We caught several good slabs (1.5+ crappie) that day.

We went to Burnt Cane This weekend and the slabs just wouldn’t bite but we still caught several decent fish. They were all about a foot off of the bottom and tight on the wood.