anyone been? Or heard anything about the lake.
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anyone been? Or heard anything about the lake.
heard it is low and good. rite now
Have not heard anything Rusty but good to see you on the Ar board.
Anyone have any info on old town. Im thinking about going down this weekend. Only been to it a couple of times. Any help would be great, (like minnows, jigs/size and color, deep, shallow, north end, south end). Im not looking for anyones honey holes, just any info to get me going in the right direction. Thanks
Thanks Wayne, I'm putting the clubs down and hitting the lake.
MCC my number is 870-733-7933 shoot me a text if you go, if I'm on some fish I will let you know.
I will be on the west end of the lake if possible
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Originally Posted by creekslick
I'm thinking about going this weekend
Live in Ohio now but old town is where I grew up,born and raised. Family still fish that lake. I'll try to get info for you. Last I heard it was froze last week. It should be open now, they was hitting good a while back.
Bite is hot right now....
I am going to head down in the morning and hope to get on a mess.
Good luck let me know how it goes.
According to NOAA the wind will be cooperating also.
Where is Old Town? What part of the state?
Hey ski - Its in Phillips County. Its a oxbow off the Mississippi River.
BillyE
its down below Barton!
A little far from Conway for me! Thanks for letting me know though. Hope you guys goin' wear'em out!!!
You say it is too far because you have caught any of those behemoths down there. Folks use a 7' heavy action flip stick to jig with, 50# braid, and 4/0 jigs.Quote:
Originally Posted by ski trip
The fishing is good but you better keep your possessions in eye sight at all times. I have never been to Old Town and not had something stolen.
Well, didn't find what I went after but did leave with a coulpe of good channels and pretty sure a wind burn.
raid 24, I take it that you fished Old Town today? I talked to a local who said that he had several reports that most everyone was catching several and they were big. I sure wish I knew for sure before I travel 6 and a half hours to fish there.
I did not catch a crappie one. I got there around 8am and the wind finally got the best of me around 2pm. Was fishing the west end of the lake and only saw one other boat that had yoyo's out and they were not having much luck either.
I was down there yesterday and only caught 8 crappie and 2 cats. The water is about 4 or 5 inches low. The water looks good though. I did see a few fish caught but, nothing to get excited about. I saw about 300 yoyo's with about ten fish on; some with small crappie hanging high and dried out. apparently the game warden doesn't enforced all yoyo laws. I know he is a busy man.
Let him catch you breaking a yo-yo law and see if he enforces them. Key word is catch. It's hard to watch everyone. But the local possum cops show no mercy.
Me and my girlfriend were down there yesterday also. We fished from 7am till 4pm only breaking to eat a couple of sandwiches throughout the day. We managed 8 crappie, 1 cat, and 1 bass. It was very SLOW! Saw about 15 yo yo's with fish on throughout the day, bout 1/3 of them were cats. Talked to 2 different groups of people running yo yos and they said that the bite was on, on friday, and that it was very slow yesterday. We fished on far side of the lake on down toward the south a bit, kinda across from the the big tile and the green water tank. By a little after noon, the water temp was a anywhere between 64.5 and 66. It started out yesterday morning at around 57. It only got up that high for a few hours, then by 3pm, some clouds were rolling in and by 4pm when we left, the temp was around 62. This is as good of a report as I can give. Hope this helps. If anyone has any other questions just ask, I'll try to remember.
Also forgot to add that after I cleaned them I noticed that all 8 of them were females. 3 of the 8 had real bloody eggs in them, and the other 5 all had empty sacs. I hope it isn't already over there. :-{