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Hello all, first time poster here, recently converted crappie fisherman after years of chasing the green carp. Have spent the past few years fishing Dardanelle, Atkins and conway. Graduating in May and recently got a coaching job in the van buren area, just looking for some info on what lakes in the Van Buren area are good for crappie, not looking for any specifics just looking for the name of the body of water. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Can't help with that area but welcome from Cleveland County home of meatgetter jigs and minner critters! !!!!!!!!
Welcome aboard
If you find one let me know too. I do all my crappie on Tenkiller.
Robert S Kerr resevoir in Ok, Blue mountain isnt far either
Blue Mtn is hot from reports on the grapevine !
Welcome to the forum from Greers Ferry Lake
My friends can confirm Nimrods report of Blue Mountain. I saw there catch on FB last weekend. Crazy numbers. Tenkiller fish have not moved on the spawn yet. We are fishing tree tops in 45-50' of water still to find them. If this stupid weather would stop all the cold temps and cold rain it will pick up as well.
Only thing is Blue Mountain will take you about 1:25 hours to get on the water. Tenkiller is 50 minutes. About the closet place I can find to catch crappie. Just gotta get that $55.00 Oklahoma license. :(
thank you to all for the helpful information, I will check these places out for sure, I saw tenkiller when I was just browsing close bodies of water on google earth but was not aware it was good for crappie
I grew up in Van Buren but have lived in Little Rock since 1976. All the places mentioned were the places to crappie fish in the olden days too. Oklahoma: Tenkiller, Kerr, Wister were hot. I loved catching crappie at night with Coleman lanterns on Tenkiller. In Arkansas I fished the river around Van Buren/Fort Smith and out of Clear Creek, Mulberry. A little farther away, Piney Bay and Shoal Bay. Blue Mountain has always been dynamite.
right there in your back yard ain't too bad. Lots of crappie come out of that river. Right there in VB you have Lee Creek, admittedly, the next pool down is a better crappie hole, but any backwater slew up and down that river should have a good population in it. Also, don't forget Lake Ft Smith. That things full of crappie
Was on Blue Mtn yesterday for about an 1 1/2 hours ...one fish...talked with two different guys both said they wore them out Saturday....same holes nothing Sunday.....Sunday was colder, cloudy and wind was 15 mph out of the east. It changed the pattern of the fish on Nimrod for us also...we went back to Nimrod about 11 a.m. and found the fish 3 to 4 ft deeper.
But I have caught limits of 15 to 16 inch fish on Blue Mtn. and I will be back again soon. Water was up in the buck brush and willows on the banks......