New to site and Norfork question

Hey everyone new to the site and enjoy reading all your info. I'm from Jonesboro and Glad to be here. hopefully soon I can provide beneficial info as well. I do have a question about norfork. We have a place up there and mainly fish on our dock in woods point hand cove area. Does anyone spider rig up there? That is the way I grew up fishing at Sardis and curious because I haven't seen anyone fishing that way on norfork. It is truly the way I love to fish and looking for any advice on that lake. I go to Sardis when possible but family loves norfork for the recreational side and we all love crappie. I just want off the dock and in the boat.

welcome from the Bluff. Cant help with your questions up there but I'm sure some one will before long.

Norfork is not much of a crappie lake. It is deep and clear with very little structure. It is a good striper lake and large mouth. You will have to learn your electronic very well. Crappie will spawn in 10' of water sometimes with now structure. Try Brushy Creek and Bennetts Bayou where it meet the lake. I am saying you can not catch some, but it is harder than what you are use to. Good Luck.....roughneck

Welcome to the board. I can't help with Norfork. It seems all those big clear lakes beat me like a yard dog. Hope you catch a bunch of great big ones there and let us know how it's done.

Good luck

RCC

Welcome!! Across from hand cove is brushy creek which runs into the main creek Big creek!! Go about half way back in the creeks till you start seeing stained water!! Watch your electronics espically in curves of creek just on the edge of channel stay around 15-20' watch for brush,big rocks, any type of cover!! Hard to find but when you find them some good crappie,Roadrunners 1/16 -1/8 oz(1/8) red/chart is hard to beat!!! 1/8 oz-3/16 oz leadhead red again,2 in -3 in pearl curly tail grubs,1/8 oz jighead,Midsouth 2 in crappie tube pearl!! Don't spider rig but cast and jig pole!!!!Hope this helps!! The owner of handcove boat dock catches a lot of big crappie if you can get him to tell you!!!

Thanks a lot for the welcome and advice. I will talk to guy at hand cove. I buy minnows there for our dock if we don't take any with us. It is a very humbling place on the crappie end that's for sure!! But when we do catch a mess off the dock they are awesome. Brushy creek is not far at all from me. Thanks.

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Thanks a lot for the welcome and advice. I will talk to guy at hand cove. I buy minnows there for our dock if we don't take any with us. It is a very humbling place on the crappie end that's for sure!! But when we do catch a mess off the dock they are awesome. Brushy creek is not far at all from me. Thanks.

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Spidder rigging works well on norfork. You get some looks and coments but it works good. Use 14ft poles or longer good depthfinder a must. More tops in your area than anywhere on lake.

Welcome to the site bud there are lots of good ppl on here with very helpful advice.

Welcome from Lake Conway.

Looks like there may be some public structure out there somewhere.

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welcome to the site brewer!

Welcome!! There has to be a crappie in there somewhere.

Welcome to the site. Don't dismiss the suspended fish on Norfork. I've caught them suspended. 25-30 feet deep over 60 or more feet of water.

Welcome from Judsonia!

Welcome from Greers Ferry.

Thanks everyone. Hey RCC where did u get the download of the fish attractors? I have the boundaries from agfc but haven't seen that before. Look forward to seeing y'all on the water somewhere. From looking around here on here I ll probably run into more of y'all at Sardis than norfork!

Welcome from the bluff

I am glad to see your post. I plan on dragging my camper to Hand Cove this summer. I don't know a thing about the lake. But, I plan on exploring by pulling jigs and Bandits. What can you tell me about Hand Cove? Do I need to go ahead and make reservations?
DP

I ll check with my uncle and get back with you tomorrow pepper. He keeps his there.

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The public fish attractors are for the most part rotted, at least most of the ones I have found. And the lake management will not allow you to put "boo" or anything except cedars and you must have a permit. This time of the year you can find some on south facing bluffs down about 30 feet. they will be hanging out with the bass.

Roughneck,

One of the things I want to start tackling this summer is diving to look at the conditions of the piles. We need to determine if they need to be re-stock with brush. I bet your assessment is correct that a lot of them are badly deteriorated.

I considered hiring a guide for a day and learning from them but don't want them to feel like I'm hijacking where they fish. I guess if I told them up front that I planned on fishing on my own later that would be fair? Any thoughts on using a guide to learn a little about a lake? I welcome any opinion I've fished w a guide before but only for trout and 1 bass trip to okechobee.

Havent been to Norfork in a while but we rarely left diamond bay. Great fishing there. Good fishing in brushys and jordans also. Good luck.