Oxbow Awesome!!

Got a great report last Thursday on a place I have been waiting all spring to get right. The problem with oxbow fishin is sometimes the rivers dont get right when we want them too. But she finally got right and it was once in a lifetime insanely AWESOME!!! and that is grossly understated.

So lets go fishin!!

Picked Dad up right after daylight and we headed for the honey hole. My aunt and uncle were along too in thier rig and we were hoping to get a repeat of thier previous day. We had no idea this day would cement it's place in our fishing memories so impressively.

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Lots of folks love hill contry and it is pretty but for my money, I'll take an oxbow in the delta every time.

The bluegills ran hugh and were thick as the dang gnats. Thank goodness we had a stiff breeze pretty much all day. Most of the time I hate the wind but I am not sure we could have stood to fish without it.

If there was anything to fuss about at all it was the overall size of the crappie. We had to do a lot of culling but who really minds catching lots of fish??:D

I didnt get as many photos as I would have liked but there was almost no chance of getting anyone to put a rod down to run a camera. I finally did take a couple on the last bid gill bed we found.

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Big bulls in clear water are just about as pretty as they come imo.

At the end of day Friday, we were almost relieved that Saturday was going to be a wash out because we had a big chore in front of us.

We weighed and good sampling of the gills and the avg worked out to 3/4 of a pound. It was one of the very best gill catches I have been part of in atleast 30 years.

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After an entire day of pretty intensive culling we ended up with a pretty respectable pile of crappie too.

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I cant begin to tell ya'll how much fun it was to be back in the boat with Dad for a day like this one. I really hated that my wife missed it though. She would have been completely ruined.

I hope ya'll each have a day like this before the season is up.

Glad yall had a good day to remember. I have to agree with you on the oxbows in the delta, in my opinion nothing really compares.

Congrats on the catch!! I know that yall had a great time fillin up those colemans!!!!

Prosperous Bayou looks good.

Absolutely AWESOME catch......congratulations and thanks so much for the pics.....those bream pics renews my faith that the bulls are still around....The last good catch I had on bulls was in 1958 on Eagle Lake(Vicksburg, Ms..oxbow).....we filled up a 48 qt. box with one pounder bream....on crickets....I thought the pesticides had ruined them forever so I have been fishing bass and sacs....

That oxbow looked beautiful......knats have moved into S. La. also..

good fishing

Kudos! What a trip!

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Originally Posted by soswine

At the end of day Friday, we were almost relieved that Saturday was going to be a wash out because we had a big chore in front of us.

We weighed and good sampling of the gills and the avg worked out to 3/4 of a pound. It was one of the very best gill catches I have been part of in atleast 30 years.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y24...T/100_1424.jpg

After an entire day of pretty intensive culling we ended up with a pretty respectable pile of crappie too.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y24...T/100_1430.jpg


I cant begin to tell ya'll how much fun it was to be back in the boat with Dad for a day like this one. I really hated that my wife missed it though. She would have been completely ruined.

I hope ya'll each have a day like this before the season is up.

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Hey soswine (reel) nice catch best i,ve seen in a long time, i,am new to fishing ark. if you don't mind what oxbow were you fishing? thanks for any help!!!!

Great job!

Nice catch Bryan, when did you say we were going?:D

Fantastic catch, thanks for the pictures.

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Originally Posted by CrappiePro

Nice catch Bryan, when did you say we were going?:D

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It will be a while now. My aunt and uncle went back yesterday and the river is already back in it. Water had come up over a foot and was muddy enough to leave tracks if you dangled your foot over the side. Just gonna have to keep an eye on the river and wait for it to get right again. The good thing is that it wasnt right for long this time and with the bad weather, it didnt get pounded. So there should be another round or two of good fishing hopefully before it gets too hot to enjoy it.

Tenn a sea, its an oxbow on white river refuge in SE Arkansas. There are lots of little lakes and oxbows on that NWR and they are pretty much all fantastic fishing when the river gets out of them. After all this weather we just had it may be a pretty good while before that happens though.

Yea, nice catch hope I can get on em' like that sometime this year!

tore them up for sure...what did you use for the weapon of choice

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Originally Posted by PBUG2009

tore them up for sure...what did you use for the weapon of choice

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Crappie - white head/white pearl body/chart hackle
Gold head/kansas slab body/gray marabou

Gills - black w/ copper body/mallard tail mostly
black pearl body/chart hackle for a few

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Originally Posted by soswine

Crappie - white head/white pearl body/chart hackle
Gold head/kansas slab body/gray marabou

Gills - black w/ copper body/mallard tail mostly
black pearl body/chart hackle for a few

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Home-made or store bought? I'd like to have a nice gill catching jig...

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Originally Posted by Arkieman

Home-made or store bought? I'd like to have a nice gill catching jig...

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this is what I use up on Conway and alot of other lakes. I make my own, but theones I originally bought are available at Dan's or that other bait shop in Mayflower

sorry, here is the pic

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Originally Posted by Arkieman

Home-made or store bought? I'd like to have a nice gill catching jig...

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I make my own. Check out Pbug's site, he has some good lookin gill baits. I have some on the way I am going to use.

Yes indeed good bait, I use something like it called a dynomax from patton's in cabot Ar. That dude will catch big redears, crappie and big gills.