Got my Arkansas license plate today. While I will be pursuing trout 90 percent of the time here this plate was just pulling at my heart strings.
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Got my Arkansas license plate today. While I will be pursuing trout 90 percent of the time here this plate was just pulling at my heart strings.
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I understand totally . Mine too .
Although I’ve enjoyed catching a few green fish lately , I’m a gillchaser .
I love catching panfish .
Nice !
Nice plate
Like the colors. Way to represent our way of life.
I feel the same here. I don't think i can give up at least catching a few dozen of these hard-fighting panfishes every season. Nice plate, Alpha!
Good one! As skeet said the colors are great!
Bob
That’s awesome Randy
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I was bass fishing a few miles down from the Nickajack dam last weekend when I ran across a fella fishing on the bottom with worms for Shellcrackers. He was catching some nice ones. Made me think of you Randy!
Awesome Tag! The older I get the more I like to fish for panfish. It is what I fish for 95% of the time. When I was younger it was only about the bass not anymore
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I'll bet you'll be making the drive back to Tennessee come May!!! Shellcracker will be calling your name!
I live in MS, but there's no denying that there is great fishing in Arkansas. The trout fishing is incredible on the Little Red. If you ever feel like spreading out a bit, try heading up to the Spring River sometime. Good trout fishing for a few miles from the source, and a whole assortment of species downstream. I've caught several sunfish species, largemouth and spotted bass, walleye, and even suckers on flies while trying to trout fish below Dam 3. Don't worry though, I've also caught Rainbows up to 22 inches and, although not as plentiful as on the Little Red, Brown Trout up to 8 lbs. I haven't ever gone over there specifically to panfish, but I know there must be a lot of great public lakes and ponds for them also.
Randy, now that you're in Arkansas, please allow me to to make a couple of recommendations. I grew up fishing the river runs up and down the Mississippi, but I'm in Christiana TN. now keeping an eye on your Nickajack holes!
Look up Wapannaca Wildlife Refuge. It is in eastern Arkansas but it is full of big Bluegills and Redears. There is a website. Near Wapanacca is Island 40. Island 40 is a narrow old Mississippi River channel, Also, but a bit farther, are two terrific oxbow lakes when the river leaves in the Spring. One is Midway lake, otherwise know as Council Lake. The other is Whitehall Old River, otherwise know as Old Walnut Bend. They are both south of I-40 near the river.
Also, if you get a wild hair and go to NE Ark. cross the river and visit Reelfoot!
Tight Lines!
they got great panfish ketchn in Arkansas too bro , never give up .....
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Yowser, Eagle, that one looks like it is ready to explode!
Bob
Yeah, bass fishing is a young man's sport. Older I get the more I gravitate towards panfish too! Panfish are arthritis friendly. :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by FLYFISHER74
Is Island 40 still open and if so open to the public? I fished there as a kid about 30 years ago and I just moved back to Memphis.Quote:
Originally Posted by bwilso
Is Dacus still around too?
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I visited Dacus last summer during a trip back home to see my sisters. It appears that it is closed to the public. The ramp has a chain across it and all of the fish camp structures have been torn down. It was kind of strange seeing no one on the lake at all. I do not know about Island 40 as I have not been there in 35 years. It was one of my favorites as a youth. I was told that Lakeview is also closed to the public. I think it was bought by a Duck Hunting Club same as North Lake.
If you have never been to Whitehall, please put that one on your list. It is my all time favorite but it floods when the river reaches 12' on the Memphis gauge. It is strickly a summer time through fall fishery.
Where’s Whitehall?Quote:
Originally Posted by bwilso
I may follow up and send ya a PM if you’re willing to chat about so more places around these parts.
Thanks for the info
Cheers
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Of course this was really a post about what I thought was a cool license plate. I ain’t giving up on nothing. Where I’m at now just happens to be world class trout fishing. Arkansas has great fishing all over. But I am not really wanting to do the long drives anymore. I appreciate all the info and if I get a wild hair I might make the drive just to see what those spots are like. So far I have located several spots relatively close…meaning around a 30 minute drive. Have come to the conclusion that I will in all likelihood not get another boat. What I would spend for the boat will pay for a ton of half day guide trips. And that is figuring using professional guides….have already run into a number of part time guides out here who are much less expensive than the full time guides. Would have already been fishing but had a setback with some skin cancer surgery. It seems they took stitches out too soon. So it split open and had to have it all sewn up again. Of course to do that they had to cut away the old and get into new flesh. To say I was mad is an understatement. But at age 72 I’m not too concerned about a scar across the side of my face. Just kind of put my endeavors on hold for another 3 weeks. Hope to be posting fish pics soon.
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Sorry to hear about the set back. Sounds like you are making a good decision about the boat. Either way, you will have fun. The guides should be able to get you on some fish!
Bob
Get well soon Randy .
I’d be upset too .
I too would have bought that plate.
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