Millwood ???

I have always thought Millwood was a premier crappie lake, as good as Conway or better. Growing up my Father and I caught an unbelievable amount of crappie. What gets me is that very few posts about Millwood occur and those that do have very little useful information.
A couple folks post pretty good things about up the river but it is a very large lake with many different launch areas. I would like to hear about when the crappie are ready at Cotton Shed, or Saratoga, or Yarborough. Shallow cypress, weeds, or out deeper say 12', what about some of the oxbows like Mud Lake or Mcguire ?
I know last year the COE did some major work close to Beards Bluff pushing an enormous amount of brush and trees into the lake as shallow structure, has anyone fished it and caught crappie?
I will be fishing the lake tomorrow and Saturday for the first time in a year, I promise to post information afterwards.

too many gaters for me

will be down there saturday with arkyfishing...be our first trip since january....some guys i work with fish down there alot and they're not doing very good right now.

Buddy down in south Arkansas wasn't hearing any good reports last week.

was on dierks last saturday and caught one..a 15 incher. everyone's been wearing them out on dierks till these fronts hit. going here in a little bit after wife gets off to work.;) only reason i'm going down to millwood tomorrow is because the state park is putting on a little crappie tourney out of the park ramp. just going to have a little fun and see what we can see..lol

I have a friend that has been fishing there every year for the past 25 years. He said he has been catching some very nice size crappie and this has been the best year he has ever had since he's been fishing Millwood Lake. He camps there every year for a month this time of the year. I'm glad he had a good year because he always brings me a mess to eat! Thumbs Up

Roger

We caught 9 today. Biggest was 1 lb 13 oz. Couple of Bass over 16", and a 2 lb Cat. ( minnows ) Think we found a little pattern. Tell you more tomorrow with pictures.

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We fished the State Park tourney at Millwood Sat. I think 24 lbs won it, 22 was second, and our 13 came in 3rd. The big fish was 39 oz.
We caught ours in a shallow cove on minnows 12 to 16 inches deep. Apparently on a bed, all males, very dark colored. Fished some cypress groves with no luck. Did not fish any deep water.Don't know what the water temp was. We were able to find some fish by covering a lot of water and casting to every stump in that cove. The same action in other coves did not produce anything. Picture is what we caught Friday.

24 lbs %$#^&%*%%$% I need to take up golf! It seems that I covered half the state this weekend and have very little to show for it. Friday evening I put in at the HWY 71 Bridge on Millwood, I didn't boat the first fish until minutes before dark, and ended up with 3 crappie, 3 sandbass, and 2 bream. I released them all. after the slow evening on Millwood and the expected wind I went to Dierks Sat morning. I left about 11:00 with a bad headache and 1 crappie (released it too). I didn't fish sat evening due to the same freakin headache. Left Foreman at 4 am this morning homeward bound and decided to hit Hinkle on the way home. 1 crappie and a bunch of dink sizes bass. I would have been okay with that but there were some guys at the cleaning station dressing out a dump truck load of crappie. Guess I'll just have to practice more. + I had a great time with my dad.

well i had one of the slowest days fishing sat. on millwood that i have had in a long time. also fished place that I have not fished before. Still was a humbling day. Like fishbasket said I have read and know little about the main lakeof millwood. I have spent many a days up and down little river around white cliffs and catch plenty of fish. just wish i knew more about how and where to fish the main lake at times. Had a good time at the state park tourny but wish we would have limited out.lol

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We fished the State Park tourney at Millwood Sat. I think 24 lbs won it, 22 was second, and our 13 came in 3rd. The big fish was 39 oz.
We caught ours in a shallow cove on minnows 12 to 16 inches deep. Apparently on a bed, all males, very dark colored. Fished some cypress groves with no luck. Did not fish any deep water.Don't know what the water temp was. We were able to find some fish by covering a lot of water and casting to every stump in that cove. The same action in other coves did not produce anything. Picture is what we caught Friday.

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Howdy fishbaskett, congrats on the 3rd place finish in the tourney. Just wanted to say it was great meetin and talkin to ya last friday. I got only six after I left yall, looked for ya when i loaded, thought yall might want my fish to make ya a good mess for supper, but didnt see ya. Had a hard sat. and sunday myself, only manged 3 fish each day.
Anyway was great to meet ya and hope to see ya again soon at Millwood or Greeson.

Strip,

Its great you got to fish with your dad.
Bad you got a headache, that always makes for a bad day.
I like McGuire Lake up the river there. Might would have fished it if it was not so far from the State Park.

Captcall,
Was nice meeting you. Perhaps you can come over and fish with me on Greeson some time.

We went into Mcguire Friday evening. gave up on it long before we reached the back end. We went up river from there just a touch and started fishing 8-10' deep around structure. that is where we picked up the few we caught. When I was a kid and lived in Texarkana my dad and I spent a lot of time on Millwood. ever since we moved to the Fort Smith area I only get back down there a couple times a year.

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Strip,

Its great you got to fish with your dad.
Bad you got a headache, that always makes for a bad day.
I like McGuire Lake up the river there. Might would have fished it if it was not so far from the State Park.

Captcall,
Was nice meeting you. Perhaps you can come over and fish with me on Greeson some time.

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Would like that very much sir, hope to see ya again soon. Been home 2 days, headed back to the cabin and fish Millwood a couple a more weeks. Best of luck to ya

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Fished Millwood with my son who came up from TX and was about the halfway point for us. First time to ever fish Millwood and we both are novice fishermen. Caught 14 on Sat and 5 on Sun. with several around the 2lb. size. Almost all in Horseshoe in about 20ft of water. We didn't catch any up shallow. Thanks to all that post here and gave a little info for us to have a great week-end together on a new lake.

them was some nice ones!