Greeson Is Looking Up

We finally had a decent trip on Greeson this morning. Nick started us off right with the nice white crappie in his right hand and caught several more fish including the black crappie in his left hand:

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His Uncle Ricky beat him though with this 17-inch, 2-pound, 2-ounce white crappie that he is going to have mounted:

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We kept 18 crappie and a pretty good goggle eye and I think everyone had a great time:

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Everything was caught on Rosey Red minnows and Shiners fished from 11 to 19-feet deep on brush piles and bamboo crappie condos. The white females still had quite a few eggs but they looked like they were starting to break down. The black females were all pretty well layed out.

Can't wait to get there next weekend.

Nice one!!!!!!!

Good looking slabs....glad things are picking up for you.

Nice work. Coming Back in this Fall with another crew!
Your the Man Jerry!

Jerry with all the rain this week just wondering how much the lake going to raise.

Hey Greg:

As of noon today the lake wasn't coming up but it probably is rising now and will come up quite a bit if Gustav keeps hanging around until Friday morning like it looks like it's going to. At one point the Weather Guessers were predicting 12 to 15-inches of rain in some parts of the state. If we get that much rain in the watershed around Greeson it will probably come up 7 to 10-feet. So far most of the rain has been fairly light and the ground was pretty dry so we weren't getting a lot of run-off. But the ground is saturated now and pretty much everything we get from here on out will run off.

Jerry,

How long will it take the lake to go down if it does come up 7 to 10 ft? And how bad will that mess things up, or will it?

If this mess keeps up I'll be fishing in my driveway.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Blake

Hey Greg:

As of noon today the lake wasn't coming up but it probably is rising now and will come up quite a bit if Gustav keeps hanging around until Friday morning like it looks like it's going to. At one point the Weather Guessers were predicting 12 to 15-inches of rain in some parts of the state. If we get that much rain in the watershed around Greeson it will probably come up 7 to 10-feet. So far most of the rain has been fairly light and the ground was pretty dry so we weren't getting a lot of run-off. But the ground is saturated now and pretty much everything we get from here on out will run off.

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Hey Doug:

We were only about 3.5-feet below full pool already so we don't need the lake to come up any. It's 6 or 8-feet higher than it usually is this time of year.

The graph shows it coming back down a little this evening after a slight rise this afternoon - Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Little Rock: Little Missouri River at Narrows Dam - so they are still trying to stay ahead of it. I'm sure it will scatter the fish some if it comes up more than a foot or two. If it comes up 7 to 10-feet it will be several weeks before it's back down below full pool. They need to get it down about 10-feet below full pool before the winter and spring rainy season.

Man, it's nice to see a healthy stringer of specks! I'm 40 miles from Greeson. I reckon I'll have to learn the lake in my retirement. C'mon 30 September. :D

Thanks for the report and extra-fine photos, Jerry.

aj

Went to Greeson yesterday and caught a good mess.

Headed to Greeson on Saturday to do a combination of crappie & bass fishing. Any pointers on depth or area of the lake to target? Thanks!

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Originally Posted by AgriHawg

Headed to Greeson on Saturday to do a combination of crappie & bass fishing. Any pointers on depth or area of the lake to target? Thanks!

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Here's a link to my "Trip Reports" page - TRIP REPORTS. The crappie are bunching up real well on the brushpiles up the creek arms. The bass are starting to get on the rocky points and there are a few breaking but not in big schools yet where we've been.

Thanks Jerry!

Nice bunch of crappie Brad.

We tried the stripers this morning for about an hour and a half without a bite but found some decent spotted bass and a channel cat on rocky points by working crawfish off the bottom. This afternoon we crappie fished and kept 18 or so up to 16.5-inches and a striper.

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If we don't get a lot more rain or a big warm up it should keep getting better and better right up to Fall Crappie Camp.

All we caught Saturday was 5 kentucky's. Wound up not spending too much time trying for crappie (using minnows, but at the wrong depth). Now that that i'm back in SW AR i'm sure I'll be spending plenty of time on Lake Degray and Greeson. Hopefully i'll get them figured out.

BTW.....bass were caught using Gold shiner spinnerbaits fished on top of submerged bushes/timber. Mainly in the Bear creek area. Didn't have any luck with plastic worms.