Printable View
I know many of you have a special place to fish in the state that is close to your home or where you grew up, but what I would like to know is if your favorite place was closed or even your area of the state where would you go? I am thinking more along the lines of maybe the dream lake, or the place you always heard of but never went to in the state. What is the lake that if offered would bring you from your favorite haunt? Lets try to limit it to Arkansas.
I fish Millwood and Red River in the SW corner of Arkansas. But Caddo Lake and Lake Fork in Texas have always been on my "want to try" list.
They are both within range of my home but I've never taken the time to fish them. :confused:
I do not know enough about ark. lakes to guess but I have allways wanted to try kentucky lake heard about it all my life and will fish it some day the lord willing.
Noslab
Man Jake your just counting the days till you get out for summer break arent you? Sounds like your doing a little day dreaming at work thinking up a fishing trip Ha.
Mine would have to be Nimrod and the lower Arkansas and White rivers.
Gooch , Nimrod is not far from the rock, what are you waiting on ?:D I guess my dream spots are any lakes I've never fished. But that don't leave much of Arkansas, as I've fished so many places!:cool: Would like to catch some Big Stripers or Walleyes though. I've caught my share of most everything else.;) Maybe we need a fishing trip swap meet thread on here !:cool:
when i was a kid my dad and i would always go fishing to a small oxbow off the arkansas river called taylor old river and slide our boat down the dirt ramp there. years ago a hunting club posted it and only allowed members access to it, even though it is still connected to the river and just off the levee. if i could pick any place to go fishing right now, it would be there.
If you can access by boat can they keep you out ?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by HawgPharm
well, there is a levee at the end of the lake with a pipe in it that you could possibly get through in a small flatbottom boat from the river IF you catch the river level just right and are not claustrophobic.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
I'm with you Nimrod. I've always wanted to learn the walleye thing. I have a friend who moved down from Minnesota a few years ago and they are absolutely tearing up the Walleye near Devils Fork on Greers Ferry. I asked him how he does it and he said all we do is bounce night crawlers on jig heads off the bottom and throw deep diving crank baits on the flats about 20-25 ft down just after dark. :D I cant wait till he shows me the ropes. I'll keep you posted.
Some locals from here just recently went to Greers Ferry to fish. They hired a guide to catch Walleye and still zeroed out on them !:rolleyes: Might could try a fishing trip swap or something ?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Panfish
When my Grandpa was alive we spent many a day at lake Atkins catching bream and crappie. I have not been there is almost 20 years but I would like to go back just for the momories.
I think you may be right gooch, I give semester tests next week, and then I am going to do some adventuring afterwards. I can always remember the days as a youth fishing with grandfather on Ouachita. I left the second day out of school and did not return til two weeks before school started. I don't think that Mom realized how little time it took to find supplies for school, muchless the clothes for the next year. Two weeks that were a waste for me. But during the summer it was an adventure every day. We got up at 5am went down to the dock rode out to the breakers. We fished to 8 or 9 or until they stopped breaking. Then we would check the trotline. I always waited with anticipation for whatever beast of the deep would show its prehistoric figure on the line, sometimes my anticipation would be appeased other times not, but I alwasy had a great time. Back to the dock, clean fish, eat breakfast or lunch, then back out to catch brim for the trot line. My kids think that I am insane when I say I had only one soda all day. The rest of the time it was just water. The old man was a cheap skate, not to mention it was a generic soda that tasted like setzer water. He was not much better to himself he had water or Black Label, but at least he had more than one in a day. After baiting the trotline it was back to looking for breakers then call it a day. 5AM the whole process started over again. I have to say that if I had just one day left and knew that one day, I would spend it just like that except with one of my daughters or maybe one day my grandkids. I think I won't be as cheap. I'll let them have two sodas and I'll have some Beast. If I had another lake to try I have always been curious about Nimrod. I have hear from the time I was a child that there is great crappie fishing there. I just have never been.
If y'all don't mind a post from a MS guy............ I love all the lakes in AR and MO. Just finished a trip to Table Rock and fished Bull Shoals, and Norfork in AR. I love those deep water lakes.
I fish Ross Barnett all the time and deep water here is maybe 30 feet.:D Anyway.......... I want to fish all those already spoke about, Caddo is beautiful, Beaver, Ouachita.... I love fishing the White River, I will go back to Bull Shoals, and Table Rock and Norfork.
I guess it's like the other guy said... any one I haven't fished, and if you can put a boat in it and there are fish I love it
Oh and Walleyes, caught some at Bull Shoals, one of would not fit in the net, and finally got knocked off trying to get him in, but it was fun anyway.:D
Smallies on Table Rock, Trout in the White River at Cotter, Largemouths and walleyes at Bull Shoal, White Bass and Stripers at Norfork...... Y'all got it made! And most of em are close together!
john