Thomas' Reservoir

Anyone ever fish this reservoir near Hazen?

I used to fish there 20 years ago and caught nice crappie and bream. Curious if is still as good as it was then.

i hear it's still good just have to be a member!!!

If you're talking about Adolph Thomas Reservoir, it is private and they are still catching a lot of fish including crappie. I know a couple of people that were members up until a year or 2 ago when the price of a membership went up quite a bit. I have been to the reservoir but never had the oppportunity to fish it.

It's still great fishing as of last year. The water is way low this year, not sure that it's going to be as easy to get in as last year with it so low. It's almost dry dirt where I was catching fish last spring. But lots of crappie and bream!

Memberships are $300. The water is low but you can get around being careful. Me and my 11 year old caught our limit of crappie 3 weeks ago and have caught nice messes since then, but it has slowed some. The weather hasn't been very good on my latest trips but we have caught fish. If anyone wants to join PM me and I can get you a number. There are only limited amount of memberships available.

Memberships are $300. The water is low but you can get around being careful. Me and my 11 year old caught our limit of crappie 3 weeks ago and have caught nice messes since then, but it has slowed some. The weather hasn't been very good on my latest trips but we have caught fish. If anyone wants to join PM me and I can get you a number. There are only limited amount of memberships available.

Bigfanman, sent you a PM.

I have talked with Jeryl Jones and am going today to look at this place. I am very familiar with the area, but have never actually laid eyes on the lake itself. I have a few friends who have been members in years past and they have told me that it is really bad fishing.

I do understand the vegatation gets really bad, but is the fishing really that bad. I am looking for an alternative spot to Old River, and for $300 bucks its not that expensive to find out, but All I have heard from actual people who have been past member is that the fishing really is terrible. Maybe they just fished on the wrong day???

Also for those of you that fish it. Are the memberships regulated? By that I mean are people who are not paying members kept out of the place? It was my understanding also that the bream fishing was the best thing on the lake.

What did you think Hambone???

I think I will give it a try. Lake is low but they are pumping. 90% of the people I have talked to say it is good to great fishing. For $300 bucks I am gonna find out.

Hope they can get a little more water in it though

Caught fish almost every trip over last year. Caught many from the bank up close to the launch ramp. Many with great size to them. And yes it is regulated, they do come threw and check your vehicle to make sure that you have your permit visible. It does have a bunch of lily pads in the sumer but I didn't find that it hampered my fishing any. Lots of crappie and bream. It is very low and I hope they get it back up to normal level soon. I still like fishing old river much more and always will. I have not fished the old river in almost 6 years now but I find it would be real hard to beat the lake in my opinion. Jon

Hambone,

I used to fish there 20 years ago when I lived in Little Rock. I still fish around Roe and at Peckerwood and up and down the White River.

The bream fishing there used to be excellent. Don't know what it is like now but I sent my money in yesterday.

I'll keep you posted.

Glad yall brought this up. I have a buddy whose dad is wanting to buy a membership. I will def relay this to him. What are the depts of it?? Does it have deep parts to it?

With rain permitting it will have at least 2-3 more feet of water in it. Im going in the morning before the rains set in...

Let us know how you do. I am hoping to get out there this weekend

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Both Pictures from Adolf Thomas

Wow great haul!! Those from this year?? Nobody was out there Saturday or today (at least when I was there). Wonder if the fish have shut down with this cold snap?? I am gonna try and get out there Friday and Saturday. Fishing Old River on Thursday.

Yes, these are from 2 weeks ago. It was one of those crazy days. I saw some bank fisherman hauling them in left and right today. Im slippin my 2 man in that area in the morning. Gonna grab some Rosey Reds and try trolling in that deep canal....

You calling "Old River" the one over by Clarendon? or the one north of Biscoe?

Old River in Scott (I think there may be several. It has been good lately but the fishing slowed with this front. I will usually fish it first before anything else just because its closer to home. I need to get over to Thomas and spend some time. I have never fished it before this year.

Well I got my boat in water then the rains came. There was one bank fisherman that caught 3. Gonna wait the rain out....

I fished it several times in the early to mid 90s. Although I thought I was Kevin VanDam back then, we always caught a lot of good crappie while bass fishing. I've fished it a few times in recent years - it's definitely not what it once was IMO, but still a great place to fish!

Got to fish about a hour until I got wet and cold, caught 4 nice one's. They were full of eggs, looked ready to explode..

Nice! I am going to try and get out there this weekend. Were you using monnows or jigs??

Bobby Garland pink/chartuse slab slayer with tipped with a minnow. The folks fishing off the bank had some Rosey Reds, I couldn't get any yesterday..

Caught a nice limit out there today...Pictures tomorrow.

Sweet!! What time you gonna be out there tomorrow? Maybe we could meet up. Where were they today? I assume you caught them on minnows again?

Used pink/chartuse bobby garland with crappie nibblet in the stumps. Not many stumps were showing but I got lucky. Saw some yo yo'ers, couldn't tell if they were doing in good but they fished all day, so they must have been catching some. I did try the buck brush for a little while but didn't catch any there. I figure the next full moon will make things crazy. I won't be out there today until this afternoon.