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Myself and 3 buddies are going to head west Friday morning and fish on the way to my farm at Booneville to spend the nite Friday. We have discussed Nimrod, Overcup and Atkins......
We are going to fish what is left of Blue Mtn Saturday and then fish somewhere coming home Sunday .....maybe Dardanelle.....any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.
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I'm going to overcup tues norm see if any bigguns came in
Can't offer much help but Nimrod should be good. I just been Deer hunting and busy. Don't over look Harris Brake it has some good ones. Keep us posted as your trip progresses.
I haven't been on Overcup in the last week, but had fished it pretty hard (couple of times per week) up until last week. The bite is fine, and you'll catch a ton of fish up in the cove right out in front of the pier. But, good luck putting together a sack to carry home with you. Maybe the big fish are moving up now, but I was hard pressed to catch a decent stringer the last 3 or so trips I made over there. My recommendation would be, if you fish up in the cove and it's still chocked full of small fish only, move out to the stumps and SLOW DOWN... That's been my recipe for finding larger fish, but like I said, it's been a tough go to put numbers together. Good luck if that's where you end up, I'm not trying to discourage you, just telling ya my most recent experience there.
you can catch a bunch of small ones at atkins. dardanelle will be cent
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Come up to Clarksville. Spadra marina area. All the back waters are producing right now. Jig fishing is excellent. Oh forgot to mention Big Piney. There catching some decent ones down there as well.
Second thought on Nimrod, don't waste your time right now. I fished awhile today and caught about a 9'' Crappie and a Catfish little over 3 lbs.
What Nimrod? You couldnt find fish on Nimrod? OMG launch maverick on alert five nimrods had a die off. Seriously, when Nimrod struggles the fitchin is slow as a three legged turtle walkin thru a molasses puddle in january.
Guys,
Thanks for the information you have provided. I know that none of you have ever experienced this...but one of my buds is being very hard headed.....he just knows he can catch slabs at Overcup....so we are going to stop there first.....then onward to Dardanelle when that works out to be a dink fest......I had not considered the Spadra area but plan on making that stop this weekend. Again...thanks for the help.
So.....?? Just curious on how the trip went and reports from the many stops. Sounds like Blue Mtn lake worked out okay. Did Overcup humble your buddies confidence at all or did y'all manage to find some good ens' ? I didn't know you guys were spider riggin. The report I gave was based on single pole jigging. Anyway, curious to hear about Overcup as it will be atleast a week or more before I can make it back up there.
Arrookie,
the wind was about 15 out of the north while on Overcup.....I dragged a couple of minnows along side of the boat and jigged a 1/16 oz jig and electric chicken grub...tipped with nibble and minnow. Finally caught one 8 inch crappie....4 other boats came and went from the cove by the dock....My buds fished a couple of brush piles on the dam. Gave up after 3 hours. Shad still thick.
Went to Dardanelle launched about 1 fished the i-40 bridge pilings where the Illinois Bayou comes in...and back in the pits. Caught Kentuckies on the bridge pilings...no crappie. Caught 4 keeper crappie........There was another boat fishing the pilings also.....never saw them boat a fish either.
Tough day
Here's a little tidbit I've learned about that lake. If the wind is not blowing anywhere else in the state, it's gonna blow on that lake anyway !! You can multiply the wind forecast by a minimum of two. So, I can only imagine how bad it was up there this past few days. Hate that y'all caught it under those conditions. This is my first year to fish up there and early in the season I was excited to get to November, cause I was catching nice numbers of good fish up there in late September and all the way through October. But it seemed as October progressed and the weather got colder the big fish got lock jaw. Doesn't make much sense since I was told by basically everyone "Just wait until November, when they really turn on"..... Anyway, I've been hitting some other waters with some success so I dont know how much more I'll make it back up there, but I was hoping y'all would find where they had moved to. Happy Holidays, thanks for the report, and good luck fishing !!