Hey CEB. I saw where you mentioned you are still going to the Little Maumelle twice a week. How have you been doing? Catching any? Have you been getting out into the Arkansas River?
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Hey CEB. I saw where you mentioned you are still going to the Little Maumelle twice a week. How have you been doing? Catching any? Have you been getting out into the Arkansas River?
jhook I will answer this one for Chris. He is catching a few each time out but only when he uses my equipment. Dont know whats wrong with his poles but they just dont produce like mine. When he starts back to school I would be glad to rent them out to you, if I can get em back from him.
We are watching the weather right now and thinking about a late afternoon trip out there after work today or a nightstalk on Maumelle tonight. If you go keep us posted on your success.
LOL - thanks for the offer Gooch, but I do an excellent job keeping one pole hung up. Unfortunately I've been travelling and working too much lately and haven't wet a hook now in over three weeks. My daughter will be in town this weekend and wants to go to the Little Red, so Saturday looks like a trout day.
As for Chris, poor fellow, guess he's got to get his fish time when he can. As a second year med student, the closest he'll come to a crappie for the next few years will be the baked fish sticks in the UAMS cafeteria.
Keep us up to date on what type of luck you're having. Do you ever fish the Arkansas River, or just the Little Maumelle? If you do fish the Arkansas, do you have any pointers? Where do you go?
Many thanks.
J
I think y'all might already have this tread covered without me even having to post anything. But, I guess that I might as well add something. I haven't been doing much out on the Little Maumelle the past week.
Last Saturday morning (overcast/front just came through), I didn't catch anything at all. I got out there about 6:30 and didn't catch anything down my usual stretch. I got one hit and missed him. I did hook up with something BIG on the 8' flat north of the channel. The rod bent over, and I thought it was hung because whatever I hooked never moved. All of the sudden it shot off and snapped the line on a line guide. I left about 10:30am.
Monday morning, with clearing skies. The water surface temp had dropped about 4 degrees. It took a while for me to catch onto the pattern. They were holding about 16' deep in 18-20' of water. Not too many big'uns, but nice size. I came home with 7 for about 5.5hrs fishing time.
I haven't got into them good since I first caught those out there trolling. I just can't find them now. I do know that they bite better under bluebird skies with a few days of very stable weather. I plan to go tomorrow or Friday, and if they aren't doing anything, I plan to get out on the main river and troll the primary channel ledge.
I used to fish the river with some regularity but now I am married with a kid so I dont get out there much. There are a couple of places between Palarm and Maumelle park that I used to catch some large numbers of fish on but I couldnt tell you were they were I would just have to show you.Quote:
Originally Posted by jhook
One place is a couple of culverts that run into the river out of a large slew that is in an agricultural area. When you get a localized shower and water starts moving thru those culverts it is on with the fish. Bass, crappie and whites will stack up below it waiting on a easy snack.
We will have to meet up some day out there and go for a ride up river so I can show you.
I went this morning. Huge whitecaps around the mouth of little maumelle, so I went upstream about a mile. I kept 3 crappie and let a couple go. I hooked into one cat that must have been about 10lbs. I got him to the top of the water, but that was about as far as I could go with him on 6lb mono. I heard a splash and turned around in my seat to watch 4 bucks swim across the little maumelle about 30yds from me. Three of them were 8pts and following was a 6pt. Of all days that I didn't take my camera, because it was raining.
Thanks for another update Chris. I know you're having to work at it, but you are consistently catching crappie...which is more than most of us are doing.
Glad one of those bucks didn't try to climb in your boat. Had a sick raccoon make run at me once years ago on Lake Conway and dang near got in the boat when I was tied up to a log. Scared the hell out of me. Slapped at him with a paddle a couple of times and he ran off. Not sure a buck would be so easy.
Take care.
Boy I bet a big ole 8 point could really mess up a spider rig. Between you scouting for me on the Little Maumelle and Jerry and Darrly on Greeson I may get a chance to bang some crappie and deer on the same day. Now wouldnt that be a meal?Quote:
Originally Posted by ceb
Just lend me your bow, then I'll be able to catch crappie with your poles and shoot a buck with your bow....You'll never even have to leave the house.
Hey, I need to borrow all of those poles that you used to catch all of them crappie this weekend. I think the luck is starting to leave the crappie poles that I have right now.
Gooch,
You have a PM
Titleman
I decided at the last minute to go for a little while Saturday morning. I started picking up a couple on the ledge at 16' almost on the bottom. It was very busy tending all of the poles. The yellow bass and little 1lb channel cats were tearing it up. It was a lot of fun even though the crappie weren't too hot. I ended up keeping 7 nice ones and probably released 10 or so smaller ones. I released somewhere around 10 channel cats ranging from 1/2lb to 1lb. Boat traffic became terrible about 9:00. There must have been a bass tourney because at one point 20 or so big bass boat shot out of the lock and half of em' headed up the little maumelle. It sure was nice spiderriggin and having all of those boats come within 35yds of me going full speed. I had to get out of there around 11:00, and caught a nice one about 10 minutes before I had to leave (sure was tough to pack it up).
Chris - assume you were still fishing the mouth of the Little Maumelle? We went up the Little Maumelle Sunday morning, alternating fishing for crappir and bream. Caught a few bream...all very small. No crappie. Six or seven catfish on the small side that we threw back.
We fished until about 11 a.m. and oddly there almost no boat traffic.
Anybody ever fish the Little Maumelle up above the Pinnical Valley Bridge? There's a lot of timber there. I wonder if it's not better further up river?
J
Yep J, I am still sticking to the same ol' spots. I am probably missing out on good fishing at other spots, but it is more efficient for me to hit those spots at the mouth of the creek. The crappie are very, very scattered at the moment. The number of small ones are also increasing.
Ceb / Gooch
I would like to hear if you two did any good on Lake Maumel? I have been on that lake a couple of times. The only thing I caught was a sore butt bouncing off of the waves in my stick steer.
DP
Hey J -
What section of the river did y'all fish?
DP -
I have only been out to Lake Maumelle 3x, and those have only been late afternoon/night fishing. We've had some fun out there and caught a lot of fish, but not the first crappie. We think that it may be the overpopulation of catfish. Gooch has had much better trips in the past, and he is more knowledgable about the lake. You definitely need to get you a map of the lake that shows all of the features. You can get one at Zimmerman's on S. University (the maps are behind the cash registers, next to the coke machine.
1st trip: Set up on the ledge of a hump close to the channel in 26' of water. Caught a big channel cat and 23 big white bass.
2nd trip: Set up on a sharp bend in the river channel. A couple of white bass, and that's it.
3rd trip: Set up on one of the old, inundated hwy 10 bridges. Caught a dozen or so gar and 1 nice cat.
P.S. You're right about the sore butt. It can get hellacious out there.
Chris - we fished from the marina down to about halfway to the I-430 ramp. Then we went up to the Pinnacle Valley Road bridge and fished back down almost to the marina. I'm thinking that farther up beyond the Pinnacle Valley Road bridge might be better. Much more cover in the way of cypress trees, stumps, fall downs and such.
Hope all is well with you.
J
DR Pepper just returned from vacation and saw your post on Lake Maumelle. Man the lake has been living up to its name as the dead sea this summer though I have not fished it as much this year due to boat and boat hauler problems. In fact the only three times I have fished it this summer have been with CEB as again I have been boatless. I will say I still hold out some hope for the place as we have yet to have a wind that is right for my best spot. I lost my gps to the depths of Lake Ouachita or I would give you the coordinates of my "spots". I have to tell you though my gps coordinates are about as good as my old little black book in that someone who knows what they are doing could do a heck of alot better with them than I can.
Hopefully things will slow down in my world soon and we will get some cooler weather and mabey we can get a few folks together for a nightstalk of sorts out there.
Take care