Lake Ouachita

I am filling in for another biologist on a brood collection project (a species that is not liked) on Lake Ouachita and decided to drag my boat down. Another biologist and I managed to catch a handful of crappie on a lake that neither of us had crappie fished before in a couple of hours of fishing. We also caught several largemouth and spotted bass and a big bluegill. Beautiful lake but tough to fish.
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That is a big lake to figure out . But has some big ones of most species . Hope your not thinking about stocking Stripers or Hybrids ?:popcorn Go after the big Bream and Redears next month .:fish

Good to see you got some time to fish in addition to work. Nice catch.

Chris

:highfive Nice catch and go job on figuring the big O out!!

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Originally Posted by NIMROD

Hope your not thinking about stocking Stripers or Hybrids ?

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One of the Best crappie lakes in the state in my opinion.

This has been a great year down there. Catching lots of bigger fish, not sure if it's because the last few years the water was so high.
Not sure what species of fish yall
Brood collection is but I can tell you there are plenty of strippers, gar, and hybrids.

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I miss the grass in Ouachita.
DP

There is grass everywhere east of buckville!

I can fill a boat on ouachita. Can't catch a fish to save my life on Conway.

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I can fill a boat on ouachita. Can't catch a fish to save my life on Conway.

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uhhh, ok, sounds like you need to fish on Ouachita and stay off Conway then...just saying, hehehe

Flying carp in there? Whites, stripers??? Lots of species some don't like. Lol


BRM

No flying fish that I've seen. Lots of stripers

No flying crap. There is a healthy population of whites and stripers though. I don't think they do much damage. Ouachita was built in what the 50's? Still a lot of standing timber under the water, it also is surrounded by the national forest so they'll hold water in it during spring floods when they need to. This helps water get up in the woods and buckbrush. The east area of the lake has a lot of moss beds/ hydrilla. All of that combined it's a baitfish factory with a pretty healthy fishery. Just my opinion.

I grew up fishing Ouachita. Family has a lake home up near mount ida and I spent many summers and springs up there growing up, still go as much as I can. Conway is so much closer for me though, wish I could learn to fish these shallow bodies of water. Ouachita isn't as complicated as most folks make it, just find brush piles in the right depth and you'll find fish. Normally they're 20+ ft deep so you just toss your jig let it sink and reel it slow.

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I grew up fishing Ouachita. Family has a lake home up near mount ida and I spent many summers and springs up there growing up, still go as much as I can. Conway is so much closer for me though, wish I could learn to fish these shallow bodies of water. Ouachita isn't as complicated as most folks make it, just find brush piles in the right depth and you'll find fish. Normally they're 20+ ft deep so you just toss your jig let it sink and reel it slow.

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Nope all the crappie are gone down there [emoji28]

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Hey i I know that dock, you didn't catch him in the tree I sank there did ya?
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Toward the bank a bit

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