Devan S.

I go over daily and right at the bridge the water looks good to me. It might be a touch off color but even that might be a stretch. As far as trash and floaters I am sure there is some but I did not see any lager floaters in the general area. I would assume some portion of Roaring River arm is chocolate milk as it did come up a bit but I cant see anything and presume with Table Rock and Beaver both generating it will move downstream.

@rps ...your more than welcome to fish with me. FWIW I had more or less just planned to junk fish without much prep.

guys what is missing that I could bring?

But in all reality the bluegill bite will likely be going on. Its an easy one to burn gas and graph a bunch until you find a school then just wear them out. Bill over the years has given exact locations and many details for the bluegill bite. Ultimately its still something that not a lot of people do. I would almost bet he will have 2-3 posts where he will talk about catching big gills sneaking them into a bass report. Look for them to start showing up through late May into June.

Shhhhhh.......

Good news is Beaver is already running full generation, Table Rock 75% and bull is running a significant amount so there is water already being moved all the way through the system.

good to know.

Did they mention if they have done their shocking this year?

I'm with @Ham its gonna be hard to top.

They gave her a year.....say 6 or 7 months later she is in an automotive accident. Significant injuries and ultimately the doctors say her body was too weak from the cancer to survive such injuries. Did she die from cancer or from a car crash? If she was hit by another drive does the insurance of the person who hit her pay out?

Sound like your in a good position to make a better decision long term in the summer when prices and demand stabilize. How many rick of wood you burn a year?

Cant get it right now? Likely....but your basically done with this year. considering your thinking of switching surely you don't already have a tank, lines ran, and a heater right? Propane will be available much cheaper in June, July, and August than calling around now.

Take that stimi-check your about to get and pre-buy the next 5 years.

Oil/Gas prices are a funny thing to me. You asked about Propane which can be bought at a significant discount in the summer so the price today likely will be higher than I would expect you to pay in July or what I would expect to pay next December. I don't know how much current prices are being effected by new administration policy vs. concern over new administration policy. I'm sure its likely more of the later than the former but the net effect is the same. Actual policy is usually back loaded in an administration. Pay at the pump price vs. price per barrel is much akin to using the stock market to actively gage the true economy. That being said, prices almost always rise into the spring coming out of winter(increased demand and a change in mfg costs). Add in the effects of slow down due to COVID(remember oil prices were technically negative at one point last year). OPEC made drastic cuts at that time and as demand creeps up they can highly effectively drive price purely out of controlling supply. Many oil/gas operations domestically cannot continue to operate at near zero(or negative) margin like state run OPEC companies. Therefore up until the per barrel price gets to the point domestic markets can drive a reasonable profit they will not be a major player. Again how much of this is speculative related to the new administration vs. coincidence I don't know. One thing I have long wondered, is why if its such a big driver of our economy how we always see price increases due to oil price but never decreases. When the bottom drops and manufacturers save money on shipping, processing, plastics, ect do they pass that onto consumers or do they keep the profit difference for themselves? Only time I notice any decrease in costs is when I fill up at the pump.

I have yet to catch a female fish this year that I know for sure. Every fish I have cleaned has been a male and lots I have caught and put back squirt all over my boat.

The wont run up into the park.....they will run up to the 86 bridge at Eagle Rock where it meets the lake. Been several people down there everyday/evening. I haven't heard anyone getting into any there....yet. The park itself has been very busy everyday.

I took an early morning trip the other day up the white and caught a walleye that measured 17 7/8". He managed to get the entire mcstik in his mouth long ways and his gills inside were destroyed....it was a bloody mess getting the hooks out and he most certainly died. Mentally I knew he wasn't going to make it and no matter how I measured he was a hair short. Just so happens about 4 hours later a nice man and women dressed in the customary Arkansas game warden attire pulled up next to my boat to give me a check. They both lamented that I couldn't keep it but assured me other animals need to eat too.

That is my thought.....water is low and not tons of flow down Kings....however Beaver isn't generating a lot but when they do its quiet a bit more than Kings..... One things for sure....I'm no longer a fan a daytime fishing. Way to many people out for my liking.

I know many and even a certain percentage of fish will spawn main lake but I assume river fish are always river fish. Off the top of my head paddle fish and walleye in TRL. I ask because I have been doing well up the white on walleye and ventured over to Kings today. Nothing. nada. zilch. Its like a totally different fishery. Fishing the same depth and types of areas and water temps are similar. The thing is....on the white....its shallow enough I can see them when I tried the same type areas of the Kings I don't see anything. I have to presume they are behind....by weeks at this point.....or something changed...maybe the frozen lake situation and low water input has made the white a better draw for these types of fish? 99% of the time I would say confidence is my problem....but if I cant see them then I cant see them. Just a question and thought to ponder.

I have a question for someone smarter than I. How does a fish know which river to run up for spawning. For example: I assume a fish at Beaver town run up below the dam; fish at say sweet water run up kings. Where and how does a fish at say Shell Knob know where to go and what is their determining factor? What keeps them from stopping at say owl creek or Roaring river, Rock creek or keep it from going up the Kings?

270+ views and 24 responses. I better break out the net and head to the creek. In the middle of the walleye run and now I got to worry about the masses heading down and frying up all my bait.

I would say 50/50 on wading vs. bank fishing. I'm either throwing jigs or jerkbait so I do both but I'm moving alot. I'm not looking to work over a school of rainbows for the day I want to catch 1 or 2 big fish and then I'm gone. Lots of people bring lawn chairs and sit soaking bait. If there generation there's still options but it cuts them down significantly. Downstream from parkers anything goes basically. There's 3 or 4 walk in access points between the Bertrand boat ramp and the parkers parking lot. About a couple hundred yards upstream of parkers is the special regs and you need to be barbless there but without a kayak its difficult to access this area.

I don't but he's right there is a bunch usually there. We checked it out with lights the other night.

Will do. Right now the big focus is Walleye and Brown Trout. I will soon start looking for whites. Mid-April snagging season opens for paddlefish below Beaver dam. I've never done it there so not sure how fruitful it will be but I'm gonna check it out. From then on it'll be floating for smallies and/or stripers at Beaver. Of course everything is weather/water level dependent but right now I'm not looking to start thinking about Bream or Catfish until it gets later in the year. Too much opportunity happening right now.

Put me down and let me know what to bring. Its highly likely I wont be bass fishing.....but a guy never knows what he may catch.