ARweyes

I have been catching a wad of them while spooning for about 3 years now. You will bring up a rock with several of them attached to it. I dive as well and have found them from Diamond City to the mouth of the Theodosia arm. Places are pretty bad with every rock on the bottom covered with them. We have several native fish that feed on them but I don't think it is possible for them to keep up with the zebra mussle population explosion. I fear what our beloved lakes will be like in 10 years. I don't believe it will be possible to keep them out of the rest of our lakes the way so many people travel from lake to lake, sometimes even during the same day.

We found the same thing in the Long Creek arm today. We put in at 4pm and finished at 7 with 32. Sounds like your on a bigger bite however. The Arkansas fish in my experience run smaller. We found the fish again out prestaged mostly but water temp is 63 to 65. We primarily threw roadrunners and kept them 2 to 5 feet deep and the fish are still in standing structure. Some guys at the dock said they were catching them on the bank but nothing large enough to brag about. The 2 young guys I took today had a blast.