Moore's bayou specks 7-15 (Pics)

Went to Morgan Point this morning, but it was dropping fast. I had seen it was falling slow yesterday so I took a vac. day to fish. Only caught one white crappie, after getting home I look at the river guage and it fell 4.5 ft since 9 am yesterday. It dropped one foot while I was there. I gave up at 10:30 and loaded up and went to Moore's bayou. I got to my fishing hole about 11:30, and started catching crappie right away. I caught 26 total and kept 17, all were black crappie. They weren't huge crappie, the biggest was 13 in., but a good mess of fish. Had a good time, have been busy on weekends canning and putting up veggies, so just had to take a v day to get out on the lake.


Todays catch.

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If the river falls 1.5 more feet it will be out of Morgan Point, but I guess that depends on the rainfall upstream.

good looking catch there. looks like you found em'. how deep were they

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Originally Posted by rieve

good looking catch there. looks like you found em'. how deep were they

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Caught them in 10 to 12 ft. of water, the channel of Moore's bayou, but they would only hit a falling jig. I had 10 feet of line, and would flip it toward structure and let it fall back toward the boat. Just had to watch the line for a twitch or going slack and set the hook. They wouldn't hit just a still jig. I was using a red head jig with a blue and chartruese tube, injected with nibbles.

did you try minnows

Hey Jerry where are your roadrunners?:D

Good catch!....glad the move paid off for you.

Good catch.

Hey, Jerry. Can you tell us where Moore's bayou is located? Might get to try it Sept., Oct, Nov. when I am up your way.......Thanks, Ray

Ray, Moore's bayou is just off the Arkansas river at Pendleton. You can put in the river and go down to the mouth of Moore's and go up the bayou, but I have been driving over the bridge and turning on 169 going toward Ark. post national memorial and putting in at the ramp at Moore's bayou rec. park. Then go downstream to where it opens up to the lake area. Here's a link to a map.

Link: <Moore bayou rec. area - Google Maps

Hey Jerry,
Nice catch. How bad is the aquatic vegetation in the bayou?

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Hey Jerry,
Nice catch. How bad is the aquatic vegetation in the bayou?

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It's pretty heavy, lilly pads in all the shallow areas and that floating weed is where ever the winds take it. I fished the channel of the bayou, which is 9 to 13ft deep and fished around any structure, trees and logs in the deep water.

Sounds like some good cover for fish, as long as you can get a hook in the water. I've been thinking about trying Merrisach. I've never fished it this time of year so I don't know what to expect.

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Sounds like some good cover for fish, as long as you can get a hook in the water. I've been thinking about trying Merrisach. I've never fished it this time of year so I don't know what to expect.

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If you can stand the heat and find cover that provide the crappie shade you can catch crappie. And when you find them there are several there. I mounted some umbrella mounts on the back of my seats and when the sun bears down I put them up and it helps alot, then find the crappies shady place and things begin to happen. I plan on taking off tommorow and trying them again, it's supposed to be really hot tommorow, and with a full moon the peaks are daylight and the middle of the day, so I'm going to stay after them til about 2pm, if I can stand the heat. I'll post a report tommorow evening.

Went back to Moore's today, but it was pretty slow though. The river was rising and the bayou had a current going upstream, It rose 6-8 in. today while I was fishing. I brought 7 crappie home, one was given to my by friends that only caught one in Post Lake. I only had a couple of throw backs.

Pads, motoring down bayou.

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A buddy watching me fish.

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Todays haul.

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sorry to see that things slowed down but it is still a good catch for the middle of july maybe things will heat back up when the river levels off.

Jerry it is good to see you catching a few. Last 2 times I went didn't even catch one fish. Guess last summer was just a fluke for me. Oh well when the weather cools off I will be giving them a try again...

Thanks to the zebra muscles, the place ain't what it used to be because the zebs clear up the water and the junk starts to strangle the place at the ramp and on up to Trulock.
The further toward the river you get the more open it becomes.

It's good, good fishin' no matter how you cut it. Just wish I was closer. Maybe one day I'll get back downt to Merrisac and I'll have to revisit the place.

It's good to see someone still catchin' messes of good fish over there.

aj

Fished Merrisach and Moore Bayou saturday. We caught a few bass and crappie. The crappie were biting slow, had several just biting the tail of the jig. Found them around the trees and stumps in Merrisach about 8 to 12 ft down.

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Fished Merrisach and Moore Bayou saturday. We caught a few bass and crappie. The crappie were biting slow, had several just biting the tail of the jig. Found them around the trees and stumps in Merrisach about 8 to 12 ft down.

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They were really jacking with the river levels this weekend, that usually makes it hard fishing. They finally got the flow down to where it is out of Morgan Point, first time since April 9th.