Hot Springs retirement

Hello fellow anglers,
Bottom line, looking for some help on fishing near Hot Springs for retirement.
I'm close to retirement after a long career as a Pharmaceutical sales executive. Born in the NE, been is TX, AZ, CO, and now in Louisiana. I love the Hot Springs area to retire, seems like a little of the NE landscape with the South Sportsman paradise. I'm on first base here, love to White perch fish, like to bow hunt. I would like to take a trip up there soon, maybe have breakfast with an experienced crappie fisherman, ( I'll buy) maybe bring my boat up and get some advice. Desperate for help to make a life decision. Any takers?

You can't go wrong. I would like to retire there my self. Beautiful water crappie in all of them.

I live in Hot Spring maybe able to help you with information. Give me a call 501-282-9696 also sent you a PM

Go online and check Hot Springs Village, my wife and i bought there six year's ago planing for retirement and also had a bunch of friends and relatives buy and they love it. We are not full time residents yet but the fishing area is wide and far, i have fished numerous lakes and i think the fishing is the best,you can also look by lake Hamilton it is also very nice. I travel to Hot Springs about eight times a year right now but we plan on moving sometime in the near future,downtown HS is one great city with so much to do and it does get a little hot in the summer and in the winter you get ice storms but hey the winter only last about a month or so. The wife and i spend the first two weeks of Dec there and this year people were walking around in t-shirts and shorts and i've been there when we had cold weather in Dec but all in all what a great place.

Attachment 184936Lake Nimrod

I'm in Hot Springs all the time picking up boats at the Xpress plant. It's a beautiful area for sure, and I have lots of friends I can introduce you to so you'll feel at home sooner. You will be close to some phenomenal fishing opportunities there. All species.

i love hot springs. go over 6-7 times a year, but couldn't live there i don't think. i would spend all spring fishing time at oaklawn. leaving thur for opening day.

The best advice i can give you at oaklawn is stay away in the first. Great place Hot Springs:deadhorse

Hope you did'nrt bring this cold weather with ya. lol

Hey, nice to hear from you i thought you packed up and moved Nimrod

I live in Malvern and love Hot Springs good fishing and not too far to the delta if you want to fish the oxbow lakes and cypress trees instead of the clear water lakes near here

Contact Cache22. He is the resident HSV guru. Have a great retirement.

PM Mr. Jerry Blake!!

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Is the first one a walleye?

We catch um here in La., this was Saturday in about 3 hours.

I wouldn't move:Rofl HSV is nice. That table of fish you have there is nice also.

I live in Hot Springs, next to the Country Club, and love to fish. I, too, am retired and fish for crappie and bass. We're blessed to have some great lakes. Spring can't come too early. My boat is ready, and I'm ready. Greeson should be getting ready about mid-February; then it's Ouachita and DeGray.

I sent cache22 a PM thanks RCC

I live in HSV, moved here about a year and a half ago. Lots of fishing opportunities here, but fishing these deep clear lakes can be tough. I have mostly fished the lakes inside the village, there are 9. I've fished Ouachita few times, but have yet to visit Nimrod, Hamilaton, Catherine, Greeson, DeGray, Winona, or any of the other nearby lakes.

There are two fishing clubs in the village, the anglers club is all about bass tournaments. The all species club is the Baitcasters, cache22 is the secretary.

One other thing about the village. You can get a lot more home for your money inside the village than you can in Hot Speings proper. Let me know if you want to come up and look around.

Warhawk, what kind of boat you have, looks to be a Alumicraft, what model, i'm in HSV also but not full time yet, i get there about 6-8 times a year, i thought maybe we could hookup and do some fishing outside the village. I have a Alumicraft 175 Navigator setup for spider rigging and pulling cranks, I've fished Nimrod, Hamilton, Quachita and all the lakes in HSV. I will be there in spring with a buddy to fish Gresson we both belong to Crappie.com, next time i will have to PM you and do some fishing.

Attachment 186236 These were caught on Nimrod.

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Pesce, my boat is a Competitor 165 with a Suzuki 90. We have a good Alumacraft dealer (Mercury and Suzuki motors) just outside the Village on Hwy 5.

It it sounds like you've already done more fishing here than I have! I'm always ready to go fishing, but I'm still working so my opportunities are limited.

Check into to the HSV Baitcasters club. There are a handful of guys there who are pretty active fishermen.

Warhawk, that is the place i saw my boat at, some older couple in in HSV had it at KM for sale. The man was ill and had to sell it, God rest his soul, they were wonderful people and the wife has moved back by there children. The gentleman was a taxidermist and they loved to fish for the big stripers on the big Q. I have been in contact with Curtis from the Baitcasters and plan on joining. Nice talking with you Warhawk.:fish:fish

google "Most dangerous cities in Arkansas" or "Most dangerous cities in America" and see what turns up.

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google "Most dangerous cities in Arkansas" or "Most dangerous cities in America" and see what turns up.

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Every state has it's dangerous area's crime has no boundries.

Amen to that. I thought i lived in a safe area. Then someone broke into my truck. Not a good feeling.

I know the feeling D10, 3:20 in the morning some yahoo tried to open my truck door and the dog went off i even have a camera mounted on the garage and the wife unplugged the recorder on me, i had a glimpse of him as he rode off on his bike, i wanted to give him a Louisville Slugger smile, the police got five of them boy's a week later. They all need money for that evil stuff and not booze. :bash

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Warhawk, that is the place i saw my boat at, some older couple in in HSV had it at KM for sale. The man was ill and had to sell it, God rest his soul, they were wonderful people and the wife has moved back by there children. The gentleman was a taxidermist and they loved to fish for the big stripers on the big Q. I have been in contact with Curtis from the Baitcasters and plan on joining. Nice talking with you Warhawk.:fish:fish

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Outstanding, i really enjoying this boat. I had a bass boat before this one and always felt like I was going to fall off of it. Sam, Kens son who works at KM, had a Navigator 175 with a Suzuki motor and loved it. Don't stop by there now or you might be in a new boat. They have a gorgeous Voyageur 175 Limited with a vinyl interior.

The baitcasters have their next meeting Monday the 26th at 5:30, at the Last Chance Cafe next to the Balboa Marina. Look me up, names Jim Nelson.

Three boats and and six fishermen from the baitcasters went up to Nimrod last week, my first time up there. It sure is different from the other lakes in this area, shallow and muddy. We fished over in the river and although I got skunked, most of the others caught fish.

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Every state has it's dangerous area's crime has no boundries.

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Another good thing about Hot Springs Village ... It'll never be on any "most dangerous" list.

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Charlie, I'd like to talk to you about those walleyes. I've caught a bunch of them when I lived up in Kansas, but I don't know where to start on Ouachita.

Up in Kansas, they would spawn on the rip rap on the dam, that was the best time to catch them. After the spawn they moved out on the flats to feed. In the summer they seemed to scatter and trolling was the best way to find them.

Attachment 187171I had a half a cooler full, caught them on DeSotoAttachment 187172

I think I can help you with the Walleye. I fish Lake Hamilton and Ouachita give me a call 501-282-9696

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Attachment 187171I had a half a cooler full, caught them on DeSotoAttachment 187172

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Did you catch those today?

Those were caught in the second week of Oct 2014, i was there with the wife in Dec and lake Desoto was being lowered i heard it is very low now. I fished Nimrod in Dec.

OK, that makes sense. Yes, DeSoto (and Pineda) have both been drawn down for the winter. They have done a lot of work on Pineda, exacting sediment, and they plan to upgrade the boat ramp. Once the work on Pineda is finished, they will move to DeSoto.

Ive caught some nice bream here, but not that many in one day.

Single pole jiggin with crickets, hey one other thing, you think by drawing down those lakes that far will hurt the fish? I know afg said they didn't have to stock Desoto there were so many fish in it, the catfish were so big they were scary looking,i know Darwin fishes for them big cats and there 85lbs that he caught.I also caught cats on crickets,iv'e had my under water camera in Desoto and seen tons of fish. Attachment 187297On crickets

I think the drawdowns will help make DeSoto and Pineda even better. Pretty sure it helped Coronado last year after the previous year's dd. Need lots more cover in DeSoto! Looking at the shorelines all you see is rocks and gravel. Still too many small green carp in our lakes.

I know there are trees at every entrance to the inlets, i have all the cribs on every lake in the tackle box i leave there. They really need some good brush piles put in or stake beds, i have never had my HDS on the lakes i just put it on the boat last fall.Can't wait to use Si & Di:biggrin

Pesce, you'll want to come to the baitcasters meeting Monday. The new lakes manager will be the speaker. It sounds like he is VERY interested in improving the fishing.